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Aug 2021 · 238
It might not rain again
If raindrops are formed from our chats,
The silly memes we sent one another,
Before hating each other became habit,
Surely, it might not rain again. For the better…
Goodbye ex-friend.
All beautiful things
can’t compete with your beauty
Wearing school uniform
when you’re suppose to be dripping in pearls
guarded by red roses
Priceless, all the money in
the world isn’t enough
Bad foresight and your fairness
makes me blind to
everything except you
Gentle eyes, the door to the universe
The door to tranquil rivers of joy
The door to air, water and life itself
I talked to God asking if
Heaven is missing an angel.
P.S you’re beautiful
Aug 2021 · 871
Haiku 08.21
To Rashid Khan and Qais Ahmed

During dread and death,
You use leather and willow,
To show Afghan’s strength.
Two of my favourite cricketers, Rashad Khan and Qais Ahmed, are examples of strength and character. Even though the Taliban of taken over Afghanistan 🇦🇫, we can still use sports to help achieve peace.
Please, can an angel save an angel,
The phoenix in your heart to roar, cry and
counsel to counsel, bold eagle angle,
No! “Just survive **** state” should be shunned.

Splash cash to prevent invaders but evil
invaded your uncle’s, boyfriend’s, son’s
heart. Loved men stuck in **** state’s upheaval,
Men and women don’t recognise the Sun.

“Just survive **** state” is **** tolerance,
We march ‘cause we have **** intolerance!
How can say happy women’s month when it’s not safe to be a women in South Africa.
Aug 2021 · 466
Beautiful Tattoo
Let me tattoo you with every beautiful word
in every language
so you can permanently see how beautiful you are.
Stop believing u are beautiful for a day but know that you are beautiful everyday.
Aug 2021 · 689
AMIBADHENGIO
Time that is the enemy of purpose,
    Breathing birthing nothing but burden of ageing,
Wasting the time, in shortage, which one regrets
  when wrinkled and disabled,
      Waiting for Grim to release from illness.
Alas, if sleep is the cousin of death,
  This is dying and seeing death coming.
Life is short and making every single an eventful, admirable movie. Never experiencing a dull moment. Merely is impossible. If you can’t prove me wrong.
If you stare at
a light long, hard
enough every-
thing around its
glow goes black, dark.
The light and you.

“Us against the world”
In the light you
can see some of
yourself just too
much and enough.
So to became
necessary
to see one’s way.

Remember when
the light burns out
and you can’t see
yourself.
But impending
darkness.

Remember
that the true
light isn’t
external
however it’s
really within.
The winter sky is dark, there is no moon;
The taxi’s lights reflects off tin can houses;
Taxi bump, a dog not a speed ****, driver will stop until noon;
Rival taxi speeds past with a bang by the side with the man and his spouse;
Her blood bitterly decorates the 18-seater, Lesha from Khayelitsha.
The taxi war in Cape Town.
Jul 2021 · 156
Heroes
My friend, my hero, never fought
villains but the depression in my youth
she did over and over until depression brought
me out. the blues became my truth
however i became my own hero. the war!
i battled the night to fight the day until
i fought day to night, night to day. it bore
a me: confident, happy and stronger willed.
My friend, my hero, never returned.
I believe I’m being a little paradoxical but, with the introduction of depression in my life, I could never retain the happy imagination i had before.
Jul 2021 · 255
You Burnt Down The Church
You burnt down,
you burnt down the church.

You burnt down,
you burnt down the church.

You burnt down,
you burnt down the church!

Where do you demons go to repent your sins?

Baby Moses was found floating in a basket
Lit the pages and you put him in a casket
Church bells rung and ran its course
Everything of evil’s euphoria was enforced

You’re not a mother to beseeched for
You burnt down the church at the age four
Joy emigrated from her face
Hatred immigrated to her face
Sicken the lamb, you committed sacrilege
Destroyed everything, even a pilgrimage...
The cross was in flames of your scorn
Only remains the crown of thorns

You burnt down
You burnt down the church

You burnt down
You burnt down the church

You burnt down
You burnt down the church

How much goodness that child could of done?
If sins done to her were undone.
(Besides the wrong the things that the people inside the church do) The church symbolises innocent. The innocent being damaged by the evil act of the mother ****** her four years old daughter. Why? Why do you do something so evil? Why?
Jul 2021 · 612
Her father wants his cows
Her father wants his cows
He said I can’t come inside
I can’t loiter by the gate
I can’t see my love
Her father wants his cows
Cows of great size
Cows the acres of the veld to the lake
Then I can see my love

Her father wants his cows
Then i told him i am a poet
And little did i know it
From his dreams he was aroused
He changed me a dead dove
And now i can see my love

Maybe i should of told him
I’m a poet at day’s dim
And a doctor with whims
Can you lie about your profession during lobola negotiations?
Jul 2021 · 369
Realised
Realized
eye never loved u
eye needed u 2 love me
2 substitute
da hate eye hv 4 myself
I would of left u after first day if i wasn’t initially empty and allowed u to make it worse
Jun 2021 · 359
Black Colonisers
I look at the painting,
The green forestry,
Pale blue sky,
Labourers in red clothes,
Wearing white.
Is this right?
Maybe, I’m in black, benefiting,
Upholding a treasury,
One had to die…
They graciously do, keeping the oaths,
That the old brown book writes.
It says that, right?
Would I know when I’m part of the problem?
Jun 2021 · 107
Love, it’s
It’s the cigarette that fell out the rose
The ash on the red petals
It’s the smoker’s cough and red lipstick to pose
As a gambler under glittering neon lights and all
Twenty’s girls. It’s the lit tobacco making
A noticeable change in the smell of the room,
Rough, ***** smoke scent like the pillaging
Of innocence, thou’ a lavender scent, roams,
And resides in my nose now and until my end.
It’s the cigarette dangling at the tips of your lips
In the crack of dawn, my naughty girlfriend,
Attempt to steal it, but it flies into my coffee, flip!
Finally, it’s your laugh that is so devilish
As I immediately impersonate a peevish
Child complaining about coffee and cigarettes.
That even thou you have your flaws but, these flaws, is why i love you so much my perfect imperfection.
Jun 2021 · 171
Untitled
Time is relative, death is imminent...
May 2021 · 152
DEAR DYING LOVE
Seeing shadows of love
As the love sacrilege endures

Until death do us part-
The blaspheme!

Not sadden but an empty heart
Seeing love on it’s deathbed.
Love, rage rage against the dying light...
May 2021 · 82
Dear Gemini
I’m Libra
The constellation scream you and I
Unless the universe tells lies
I’ll like to get to know you
As a friend or special friend, through
You’re zenith and nadir times

We could be star crossed lovers
We could of been star crossed lovers if the universe didn’t take u away before we could fall in love.
Apr 2021 · 497
Forgot
To drop the call
Forgot
I’m still there
On the other side of the line
Forgot
I’m still here
And I love you
Forgot
Why did u forget?
To keep the safety on
Or was it intentional
U didn’t drop the call but the gunshots drops u six feet under. I’m alone on the line
Mar 2021 · 129
Nadir to Zenith
While every 24 hours day
seems like Nadir.
Our happy hour midnight’s moon
Is invisible yet imaginably possible
A 25 hour of Zenith.
Love, do you understand?
Our love transcends time
Mar 2021 · 159
Failure.
It’s not failure if I didn’t do,
Nor is it an achievement,
I’m chez soul-crushing drown,
And a self loathing high,
Due its not a F but N/A,
Or cut my nose to spite my face,
So never lived,
However, have I ever died?

Cried as lovers took your hand,
Laughed when they broke your heart,
I care, maybe will forever do,
How could I believe I’m the one,
For I can’t get the asking done,
Time reminds me this isn’t a movie,
Missed chances only return in another cat,
Allergies but loneliness is vaccination,
Self inflicted entropy.

Too querulous in my self caused quagmire,
Talk I’m the most unfortunate man
To set a foot on Mother Earth,
Its me, myself and I feeling hells flames
already,
Social phobia and agoraphobia?
No, phobia of feeling real, healthy love.

Not trying is also attempting suicide,
Its a F even if it was never written,
A Zenith’s sacrilege to act like Nadir.

Today, the turnaround time is here!
I’m running, swimming,
cycling or flying back,
My love is more sinewy,
than my post-mortem,
‘Cause if failure has to transfigure me,
Then rejection be my
Coup de grace making chef-d’oeuvre.
Maybe I get the boy...
Cause Britain is the one
with all our wealth.
We have
common colonised conundrums.
And you’ll say that it happened a long time ago. My response: Sorry, What The...
I’m learning to write you off
           You’re liability to my fantasy.
Mar 2021 · 407
Fishing at 2am
The clock’s short arm
is two lines over midnight,
And the internet is a river
of nocturnal creatures,
My fishing rod is as plastic as
my phony profile picture’s nose,
A scripted act of deep affection
a tasty trapping virtual bait,
Singing mermaid ringing you in
There’s nowhere else to swim.

Successful the catfish-lady catching a fish-man.
I wonder if there any catfishes on HP using poetry to draw us in?
Mar 2021 · 72
Entitlement
As the only sun
The world must run
Circles around me
As the hidden victim
As the blatant victor
I deserve all cherishes, a god,
I deserve a paddle stole, a crown,
Everything at it’s utter best
And more love than the average rest
For compensation for unique pains
Little-old me has to religiously face
So everyone
Bow down your heads and get on your knees
Understand, you need to worship me.
Sometimes i think I’m so entitled then later on I’m reminded that I honestly I’m no god that life has to always content.
Feb 2021 · 201
Middle finger tattoo
My hands lost
   the love ink,
My heart
    got pins and needles,
Our glances at each other
     is a ******* tattoo.
Making art from the pain. Literally and Metaphorically
Feb 2021 · 855
Coconut? No!
Ain’t a hard, ***** brown shell
(Not a veneer covering that I’m lost)
Ain’t any edible white liquor inside me
(My black roots stops me from being uprooted)
Ain’t just colour for an outer layer
(The proudness that comes with being a god)
Ain’t no coconut, I’m being me
(Without using your stupid stereotype to judge my blackness by)
While white people make me feel insignificant then some black people make me feel no black enough.

Where the black love brothers and sisters?
I feel alone and hated by all
Feb 2021 · 398
I see you have a Valentine
So I’ll show what we had was better,
Yes, our fire has turned into ashes
plus the warmth is long gone,
I’ll try to rekindle the flames
that we once owned.
Yet I don’t know how
to reignite our love
With waterfalls of tears
from my eyes.
Wow you “moved on” quickly however, nevertheless, i wish you and him the best of luck. Goodbye
Feb 2021 · 615
Untitled
You broke up with me
Because I’m emotionally not stable
Question
Who was that emotional stable person
You were dating for the last five months
That was never me.
Feb 2021 · 473
Preposition of 2020
Up on top of the valley
Is the hometown girl
Under the scorching sun
Plays the guitar
Between the D Majors
Inwards came invisible crowns flying
Positioned in unpredictable times
Within or withheld in the belly of the beast
Behind a mask and up on an imagery valley
The girl’s guitar frolics freely.
Even if we’re contained. We can still be free.
Feb 2021 · 2.1k
My Pink Palace
Pink Palace, I’ll protect from the white fish
Satisfaction is sometimes a slippery *****.

Pink Palace, the wettest and darkest cave
Never exposed to sunshine
Hopefully never exposed to unwanted prey.

Pink Palace, fingers, toys, members
No need to feel guilt, girl, for being human.

Pink Palace, no matter what they say
“Shield... security” or “Expose... enjoy”
It’s my choice what I do with you
My Pink Palace.
A relationship I haven’t yet fully comprehend and understand. An object I’m proud to have
Feb 2021 · 270
Illegal substances 😑
Stay away from illegal substances
like
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Animation movies 😂
...
No matter how old you are animation movies bring you great joy 🥲
Jan 2021 · 894
Her Hare
She needs a hare to fill the missing blocks
She needs a guide to help avoid the flock
A lover a reminder that’s she’s never alone
A comedian to get a laughter’s loan
A sick Santa to not gift tears on missed birthdays
A lullaby to swift sleepily from yesterday
She needs a hare to brush as mom rides the highs
A hairy being when no human beings is neigh

A fat hare eating rabbit food like her skinny dad
A big cheeks hare like his cheeks when mad
A friend for the bereaved until his death clarify
She needs a hare to stop her from asking why.
I wish i had a hare to comfort me when my dad left and never came back. Honestly it feels like his dead because i will never see I’m again
Jan 2021 · 387
Outsmarted Ronald Reagan
If you’re incarcerated black man
for selling rock around the block
Outplay Reagan with your smart investments
In the 80’s rock
By getting some white kid to sell the rocks
Plus
The state protects them, ain’t for us
Finding any reason to keep us locked up.
Crack epidemic was an easy go to to sent young black men to jail and keep the black revolution from happening. Anyway Crack is Wack.
Jan 2021 · 315
Fun Is Over
After the sugar-high
Maturity overcomes childish whims
Staying somewhere in nowhere
Is regret-bound, it’s time to quit the foolishness
To exit the game
The fun is over.
Your green eye looks down
with shyness,
Brown eye looks up
with confidence.

Green eye contains empathy
to support,
Brown eye with focus
to find solutions for problems

Pair of brown eyes
shut up shop for every delicate kiss,
Pair of green eyes
stare intensively into my soul and heart.

Start of dates is introduction of chartreuse eyes,
Letting me in, not judging my stutter,
End of dates the evaluating chocolate eyes,
Silly but, one mistake, you’ll ask for the bill.

I’m apologising through poetry
for yesterday’s date
‘Cause your pair of different coloured eyes
made me panicked!
I got game plan when your beautiful eyes deny synchronicity. So i just have to be me.
Jan 2021 · 134
Mindfulness Mystery
I turned off the lights
    to remember
        things I ought to forget
Mindlessly getting mi​graines over many matters that seem to be in amalgamation.
Jan 2021 · 87
Ooohhh, we never thought
We never thought while we talked for hours
       And messaged good morning and goodnight,
                                       Sweet dreams and sleep tight,
And endlessly told each other, " I love you."

We never thought
Of a time we barely talk
And don't message anything anymore
And a time we call each other, "Exes."
Dec 2020 · 107
Until the Morning pills
Wake from the dark to a darker place,
Silent room, silent heart. Stillness,
There’s no oxygen and I’m suffocating
Maybe open a window and get out, ran away,
Prison! A square of four rough cement walls,
Dark, silent, airless, trapping bedroom-
Trapped mind.
All my thoughts before I take the morning pill.
Learning the pills are there to assist though life than a way of life. However antidepressant pills sometimes are not diagnose correctly but it’s helping me.
Dec 2020 · 98
THE WAR
Schizophrenia pulled a blitzkrieg on my mind
My mind was losing the war
Until I pulled a kamikaze.
I’m sorry i take another diagnostic. Autistic, Depression ,Severe Anxiety and Schizophrenia. I don’t want to be the hospital again! U have ideas because I’m running out them, and suicide is singing.
Dec 2020 · 77
Granny’s misconceptions
Granny pointed to the lesbian couple.
Saying the girl who wore the suit is the man,
The other wore a wedding dress is the woman.
I was truly offended!
Until I ask Granny reasons,
I understood her intention wasn’t to harm.
She understands LGBTQ through her norms
and heterosexual eyes.
What could of happened?
If she had tolerance for LGBTQ but we didn’t have tolerance towards Granny.

Viral video of white Granny saying very homophobia statements avoided 😅
How we to became a united community if we prejudices to the older generation that they believe is wrong or a stereotype itself. We need to hear them out and show tolerance and love like the same way we except from them. Tolerance works both ways.
Dec 2020 · 110
White Elephant’s Head
What’s more poisonous?


Father drowning in barrels of wine
Or people pretending making it seem fine
Or drawing different conclusions
for the lack of open communication.
Or the raw white elephant head on the table
and the fact we just have to swallow it up.
Keep sipping on the resentment in our cups.
It’s an usual dinner party but the situation is unusual. We are not going to talk about it- White Elephant
Dec 2020 · 43
Benevolence Backfired
Delicate feather very light.
You were swept,
By the tall waves.
A dove settles,
Yes, I stayed with you.
This togetherness,
The love,
Too heavy,
As we sink into the Indian Ocean.
Drowning but too afraid
to leave one another,
I thought.
Until you make me slip.
You raise above the sea, safe
And you leave me to drown.
I shouldn’t of allowed into my heart and let you die alone.
A demon divorced me from my bed
She’s comfortable
And I’m on the floor.
With a bat.
So she doesn’t think of getting close
That she-devil trying to pose the angel
But I get a restraining order for my fears
From the things a imagine
I’m telling you she’s real
Don’t put another diagnoses page
Not another hospice observation room
For I’m not crazy
I can just see things everyone can not.


I’m in the dark on the carpet floor with many
cockroaches and a bat
For a reason.
This isn’t Schizophrenia. I’m just depressed and that’s it ^^
Nov 2020 · 34
Just something
About beautiful poems
Or awing lyrics.

Sending chills
Resounding,
Beyond the test of time!
Hope my craft will be of a fine Elizabethan perfectionist
Nov 2020 · 51
Blew my brains out
Cut that’s all
Cry but no call
Speeding metal
An attempt, suicidal

Guns and roses
Wood and daisies
Backroom, a family disgrace
Spirits looking down in shame
Mother has no giver for an embrace
Generation will reluctantly carry the name
Nov 2020 · 639
The Grey Fence
A Black House and a White House,
       Lived on opposite ends and worlds,
Were merely divided by a Grey Fence.

The Black House made bricks of unknown,
                  So the Grey Fence was taller,
The White House made bricks of misjudgment,
            So the Grey Fence was wider.
The White House dug trenches of resentment,
                Then the Grey Fence had depth,
The Black House made bob-wires of pride,
                     So the Grey Fence had spikes.

The Black House and White House
Made improvements to the Grey Fence,
Until it was insurmountable, but hence
Came at the expense of the land of their houses.

They went back to living in their own worlds.
Settlers saw opportunity in the Grey Fence.
Doors, windows, furniture made it into house.

The Grey House was the tallest,
Wideness made it the biggest,
With trenches and bob-wires as protection,
The beaut besting between the three.

The White House got a sour sledgehammer,
The Black House an envious ripping bar,
The White House a jealous jackhammer,
The Black House a beguile bulldozer.

Both houses were going hammer and tongs,
Trying to demolish what they had built.
Minutes, hours, day after day and beyond
But the Hate, the Grey Fence, was rock solid.
A fence can stop things from coming in but can keep things- influences, ideology, beliefs. I know alot of won’t read this poem because it’s “lengthy”. However the message sticks. What fences have u built? Why? In future will u need to demolish it?
Nov 2020 · 47
Cancer, not oxygen
Keep telling me that I’m your oxygen,
While you don’t believe I’m a cancer,
I sometimes wish I didn’t know you,
So you can sip on someone’s sweet oxygen,
And I remain a cancer.

Keep consoling me that I’m a good cancer,
A cancer that cures cancer,
I tell you that you are my oxygen,
But I reject inhaling you like a lung cancer,
Or deny your existence like an odd brain cancer.

Keep trying me, over and over, but you’ll tire,
And accept that you’re sweet oxygen,
And I’m a deadly cancer,
The process of acceptance is painful for us both,
Ironically, like a cancer.
Nov 2020 · 28
Remaining
I didn’t smell it
When you were here
Until you leave
And you go there
Now my nose receives
The remaining scent of you.

Refusing to leave me.
Nov 2020 · 68
Sanity Pads
A young schoolgirl stays by Uncle’s creepy loft
Cause blood stains her leg like abstract art
Uncle did more than touch her private part
Won’t be victim but miss school for 2$ cloth
I remember reading an article about a young girl being ***** from her way back to school, sent home for not having a mask. Took inspiration from that and lives of young girls who miss days off school because they can’t afford sanitary pads.
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