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Hello mind of mine
Story book kind mostly sometimes
Written by fools and follies
Beautiful and dangerous.

Escape is swifter than silence
Full of beasts and beauty
But the shallow shadows lurk

Ease me sweet vices
Guilt and all
Soothe me with subtlety
My awareness is jaded.

I love you, me
My keeper
Minder.
A mournful wail
But brain makes her a whisper
Your heart, somewhere, feels a distance
As they khuluma
And you can’t
Yet they praat
And you caught a bietjie
Not like your people and not accept by white people.
 May 2022 Emmanuel Phakathi
Aishu
I believe in something
for the first time.
Love! I believe in love,
and that's the beginning
of you and me.
 May 2022 Emmanuel Phakathi
Julie
Nothing changes
When silence is broken
Whispers breeze
Morning  is woken
 May 2022 Emmanuel Phakathi
Aishu
Anxious about spending
the rest of my life
as the same person.
I want to change
into something
that I am.
Today I saw a lady
Dancing with a tiger
I guess it is fair to say that
She  is living, or ending
Her best life.
Time will tell
The nights are
filled with corrupt
doctors and cops.
Justice, like a dog bite.
Madmen prey on
the weak and needy.
This seedy town ain't got
nothing for me.
I'm heading out west,
get a longboard
ride the breeze, and
taste the waves...
all the way to
Hawaii baby.
Spare me a dream faery man
Spare me a dream faery woman
Bake me a ginger bread cottage
Weave wishes to bind with the dough
With icing as white as the snow

Cut me a thread faery man
Sew me a seam faery woman
Bind with the blossom in May
Pink as the rose, soft as the lamb
To wind round the bed where I lay

Write me a poem faery man
Faery woman sing me your love
Casting your light, by the waxing of moon
Set words to music and play me a tune
To brighten my heart all the day

So spare me a dream faery man
Spare me a dream faery woman
Bake me a ginger bread cottage
Weave wishes to bind with the dough
With icing as white as the snow
Weekend stuff
Enough is enough
Just want to chill
Don’t need a pill
Music in my head
Lying on my bed
Its inertia
Nothing to do
No worry
No hurry
If you will or won’t
What you do
Or you don’t
Won’t hurt you
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