I see in you
I see in you
Aaaaaaaa

Maybe I feel in you
I feel in you………….

That.

That we are ok
Ok amidst it all.

I see in you
A way around it all

I see in you me
Me a few years earlier

Me when you were still walking
And I was already running

So much has changed

I see you in what has not changed in you

I see in you
What you must guard jealously

I see in you You
Take care of you
Keep your wings at your feet
Fly always across oceans that tango around each other
Feet in
Feet out
A step here
A big break there.

I see in you
All I have lost

What a great young lover you would make

I see in you
What I can never have now or again

I see in you
A lover I should not have
…should not stand on her veins.

I see you a lover
A lover I should usher on

he is having a adventure of a lifetime with every move he conjures
he is the soweto dancer
white supremacy on his throat and *****
he still moves
he's kept that secret space inside secret
no lynching of a thousand black bodies can untie his bond to his gas
he is of this earth
for he moves so seamlessly with it
he is the black dancer that has dazzled
time and time again
he is from brooklyn
ouaga
bahia
soweto
kingston
Marseilles
abuja
he is the black dancer
motion his breath
expression his concubine
juju his solemate
he is bojangles storyboard p pantsula
pantsula
pantsula

It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
Broken glass everywhere
People ******' on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
'Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window
Watchin' all the cars go by, roarin' as the breezes blow
Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
Eatin' outta garbage pails, used to be a *** hag…

It's easier to envision the end of humanity than the end of capitalism

Large number of people dead in server crash families of the expired
encouraged to reclaim their codes.
Messages to be sent as dreams to the dearly departed informing  them
of their accidental expiry.

Living without our sense
and sensibilities
Surely now we are those Marauding gangs of no name
we so despised

“ ngeke nje thina sifana nalabo”

a farce sense of exceptionalism
high hopes and low blows
***** sniffing at every ****** hollow place in sordid bodies
unionist in their high carriages
The magic is gone
the saint was never here
The magic is gone
the saint had no rope
The magic is gone
South Africa you ****** little devil you
you lied to me
promised me cover

These few lines are no invocation of coming love
Its a song for the ******

Ungangicingi kude ngimningi njengendlala yomuntu omnyama.
ngisabalele, ngibanzi ngijulile. Ungazibuzi ngami ngiyintandane
enomama no baba. Ungangabazi
yiqiniso uma uthi angisiyena umuntu.
Ungaxakwa ukubola kwami
ngikufunde kulabo esabapha
amandla okusipatha ngo nyaka ka 94
ngebhandi safunda imikhuba ngemikhuba kubo. Buka manje
sesi nje sesi nje.
Uthi ziyoqodiswa ubani lezigwegwe.
Ngithi akekho ngaphandle kwezi nsizwa, aboMnumzane bemizi (hhayi amasoka) kanye nama
Khehla wesemaZansi, sibambhisene noMveliqanga nezithunywa zakhe
zokukhanya. Khumbhula amagama
kaphuzi khemisi "Niyababona sebehlangane ngathi lababantu"
Isikhathi sokutshakadula siphelile
liyafa izwe, alingafi sibhekile silibele
amapiano nobufebe, nobuvila, nokubalisa.
Amen.

how did he move
what colour was his rage
why is that it's him that I  ask of
who is he who lays now side by side with trash
his shape and form lost in that hate fueled fire
body cooked in pieces
it's a friends foe who blew his brains out
it was no magnum - thats and fast quick
he blew him with a harmer
a few blows for good measure
proceeded to insert down his lovely heart
a sharp stainless steel dagger
a dagger that was a knife a moment ago
cutting finely through ginger and chilli
a meal he will never get to eat
He was of the clever type
he was my nephew
and he loved that we shared
a name and a few ways round the field
sure would have been nice to have known him more
he is a dead mystery now
lost to time
connected by space.
lala kahle mfana wam
umoya omubi ngeke uphumelele

We live in cycles of outrage
Internet bashing
Bully fiefdoms and cold sensations.
Nothing comes out of the outrage
it's all just another ******* to
this crazy age.

my child
fear not
you know me
I am a sent by
the all the consuming
fire. Serve light.
no man has seen God
and lived. Fear not,
don't tremble like
Daniel or be
terrified like the
shepherds. attempt
to be of pure of heart.

We have to reclaim the best of ourselves
from the clutches of the worst of ourselves.

Black dawn
odd doom
domkop
Sinyile
Kumnyama embusweni wenkawu
inkawu ayiboni lutho.

Ko ko ko
Bathi ithi come in
Mina ngithi round
Ngoba abekho abantu abadala.
Shiya umlayezo.

Boooom!
Yaqhum' iphasela
Ugogo engekho
Kwachitheka ubuchopho.
Basabalala ensimini
Kwamila ubulongwe
kwasha ubontshisi.
Sasala silambhile silembhethe.

Cozi Cozi yaphela

Ungathi Lol
ngisayo lola
Bese ngishaya isilolo
No need for isililo
Ngiphethe insimbhi ekhafula umlilo
Ungathi lo
Uma ulanda umlando ngami.
Ngiyi butho lika malandela
no Mandela anga dela.
Le bhari zama nija zithi
Delay is da

It wasn’t me
I was still dead

When you thought you did not see me fall
It was because I hadn’t gotten here/ it was because  I was not here yet

Blah blah blah
Motivation this
Motivation that
Papa black sheep
Have you gone mad
Yes sir yes sir -  I fall for all suedo helpers.

I am back.
Black.
Glad.

Refracting white light without breaking it up into its component colors.
Designating color perceived to have zero saturation and therefore no hue, such as neutral grays, white, or black.Refracting light without spectral color separation.

Kwasukasukela
Cozi
Sampheka no gozwane.
Kwakukhona ikhehla elali
ngumngani Om'khulu
no mfana okade edume
ngokulusa izinyosi. Lomfana
wayedume ndawo zonke
ngalekhono lakhe elingajwayekile.
Kwathi ngelinye ilanga umnuzane
thizeni wasendaweni la kwakuvela
khona leli Khehla lakwa Nkosi Ndlangamandla, wacela ukuthi ikhehla limkhulumele no Hhawu LweMpisi, u mfana woju nezinyosi.
Indoda le yahlushwa yizinyosi njalo uma izoba nomgidi, kuthiwa izinyosi thizeni ezazithanda ukuvakasha singamemiwe njalo uma kujatshuluwe emagcekeni aloMnumzane. Bathi zazi vele ziyeke izimbhali ezinomsusa ku, zikhethe ukuzitika ngezivakashi.Zitinyele lo, sijaghe labaya...... To be continued

I am living a broken version of my life
If the fight came to reclaim  it
I would fight
Hear me out
Wiil you fight
or run to your miserable death
I am living a broken version of my life
Life is full of magic and wonder
Reach for one of those thin invisible liquid strands
Let pure power run through your veins
Energy
Breath
Again
Breath
Again
How you feel now
Ready to care for you now
Fight for you now
Don’t lay your life for yourself
No honour in an enemy less kamikaze mission
I am living a broken version of my life
This is the last time I hear you say that

It's green time drop the envy plant a seed and wait your turn under the sun. It's a season of green please don't be mean. I mean you too can
reap so use your eyes to saw hhayi
ukuwela umfula ugcwele.
Don't wait for lemini iyeza nakuwe
lemini ila. Do something new for you
today, no not a pair of new shoes or any of that consumer sort I mean something that can grow and help,
that can help you, your family your people, hhey they are still there, as much as many have given in to fast cars and street lights many more are
there waiting for your hand. Abantu
basesekhona kumele bacingane, babambhane ngoba isizwe siyaphela.
We need black south african survivors, to hold up the flag of who we once where - and pray that our efforts will be rewarded when our actions inspire a rebirth in a time yet to come. A time we will not see. We are still due our rennaisance.

The dark brown shades of my skin
Only add color to my tears
Oh, oh
That splash against my hollow bones
That rocks my soul
Looking back over my false dreams that I once knew
Wondering why my dreams never came true
Is it because I'm black? (Uh huh)
Somebody tell me, what can I do?
Oh Lord, oh
Something is holding me back (uh, huh)
Is it because I'm black? (Yeah)
In this world of no pity
I was raised in the ghetto of the city
Yeah, oh Lord (uh)
Momma, she works so hard
To earn every penny (yeah, oh lord)
Something is holding me back (uh huh)
Is it because I'm black? (Ahh)
Like a child stealing candy for the first time, and got caught
Peeping around life's corner somewhere, I got lost (oh)
Something is holding me back (uh huh)
I wonder, is it because I'm black?
Somebody tell me what can I do?
Will I survive, or will I die?
Oh, oh
You keep on holding me back
Keep on holding on
Keep on picking on me
Oh, you keep on holding me back
Keep on holding on, keep on holding on (uh)
You're holding me back
I wonder why, you do me like that
But you keep on holding me back
Keep on putting your foot on me
But I, I, I, I've got to break away
Somehow and someday
'Cause I wanna be somebody so bad, so bad
I wanna be somebody, I wanna be somebody so bad
You see, I want diamond rings and things, like you do
And I wanna drive Cadillac cars (uh huh)
Oh, I wanna be somebody so bad
But you keep on putting your foot on me
And I, I believe, I believe I can break away
And be somebody, somehow, and someway
Ya see
I heard somebody say one time
You can make it, if you try
Oh, and some of us, we tried so hard, we tried so hard
I want you to know that I don't speak for myself
But I speak for y'all too right now
Uh huh, ya see
If you half white, light-brown skinned, or high yellow
You're still black
So we all got to stick together right now
Mhm
This I wanna say to you my sisters and my brothers
Right on sister, mhm
Right on brother
Dig this
If we keep on pushing, y'all
Oh, we've got to make it a little bit further
We've got to make it a little further
All we got to do is try, try, try
And some of us, we've tried so hard
We've tried so hard, we've tried so hard (uh huh)
We've tried so hard , so hard to be somebody (um)
We've tried so hard, although, they're holding us back
And it stands to reason
That they're doin' us like that
You know what? It is
I believe, it is because we are black (uh huh)
But hey, we can't stop now, we can't stop now
Got to keep on, keep on, keep on, keepin' on
We've got to keep on, keeping on
I know and I know and I know that you know, that I know, it ain't right
Oh, it ain't right, it ain't right, it ain't right
That they hold us, hold us, hold us back
They're holding us back, they're holding us back
I wonder, sometimes I sit down, sit down and I wonder
I sit down and I think about it
Sometimes it makes me so mad
It makes me so mad

Mahlehla sizothi Makwande okuhle.
Ibambhe lapho mfana Om'dala.
Sisayo lola
Sizoshaya i'slolo.
Hlala ne Dlozi
Khuphula umdali
Bonga imvelo
Hlonipha umuntu
Saba umuntu
Vusa umuntu
Bade lama Bade.
Dala Bade lama Bade.
Dala ku daleke.
Isiminyaminya
Kwama sina s'bhekane.
Gcwala!

poetry means nothing in real life
proclaimed a philistine
forgetting that the idea of nothing
is poetry itself.
poetry means nothing in real life
thats why we do it.