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Kim Yu May 2015
Tsala e ya nnete tota
E lerato le popota
Ga e go bone makoa
Ga e go tsenye ka sekgwa.

Fa lefatshe le tlhanoga
Le ditshotlo di tlhatloga
O mongwe fela yo o gomotsang
Ke tsala e e go ratang.

Tsala ya maaka, ramatlhajana
Tsamaya le ena nakonyana
Melato a ka e go bolaisa
Fa go buiwa o a itshegisa.

O go tsenya mo kotsing
A go potise ka fa mosing,
Le phepa la gagwe leina
O le tlhatswitse la wena.

Botsala jwa nnete
Ga bo tlhwatlhwa e bokete
Bo rekwa ka setshego
Le lerato la tlholego.
Fell in love with this poem in my High school days, it's a Tswana poem about A True Friend...very beautiful.
Tawanda Mulalu Mar 2017
A zebra burns to ashes in the middle of a traffic circle.

The University of Botswana was built by cows.

Chickens made music in the nighttime.

A goat glittered in the sky.

In the middle of Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, an elephant stands.

Do you like worms?

Sala sentle.

Tsamaya sentle.

Ke tla go bona.

There are many ways of saying goodbye in Setswana. It is okay. Go siame.
http://theharvardadvocate.com/article/800/gaborone-botswana/
Its not hunger
Its not poverty
Its not struggling with life

My parents played a supportive role a very big role in my life.
My family my relatives.
Very inspiring people
They love and care naturally and automatically.
I love them...

I love people
I love going out
I travel a lot when I get time

"Time wasted is never regained" My last high school principal MR Ramosepele used to preach the quote.
Not because of hate but he had a dream.

The people you call your friends
If good you are blessed, ask me I know God is good always.
Remember your future is based on your present decisions.
We are here to eat and witness
"Bare go tsamaya ke go bona, go bona ke go ithuta"
MR Ramosepele quoted when ever we are going on a field trip "Trip" as we used to say...

Beautiful things inspired me more in life, I want beautiful things in life and with God I'm blessed always during the time of sorrow and happiness.

Don't do injustice to your self, acquire knowledge as much as you can it all be to your advantage...
I can never say enough 
I've given up so many times in thought of being a winner since I don't fight lost battles 
I actually realised I haven't been in any fight 

I'm humble and gentle 
I'm not a fighter period 
I've managed to be invisible yet on the spot lite 
I've always liked to take long walks 
I've always choose not to be afraid 
But I haven't managed to turn my heart into a rock "hard rock" 

I've learned to be polite 
I've learned to be an understanding person 
Maybe I'm to understanding 

I know I can call order by silence 
Its quite yet loud 
Nobody knows what is going on 
Trying to understand won't help 
The is something hiding secretly 

The heart "soft spongy heart" 
Is selling out the secrete, it doesn't like them 
The brain is trying hard to melt down the heart into solid rock 

What is actually hard is to accept that its impossible to live with a closed heart 

Gravity may pull back objects with mass back to earth 
But people who know to much calculation they can actually defy gravitational force but you can't defy love

The one universal cause of conflicts in life generally is lack of understanding why the heart has too many desires 

A happy individual is a person who doesn't have an idea what is happening in life 

God above brought us here for a purpose 
We all know that you can have everything that you want in life but without love you have nothing 

Right under my feet is earth 
I am here to enjoy life with all the things I live for 

My heart is made of gentle hard but soft muscles 
If you don't know were you are going just make a decision any road will lead you to its destination 

If I was master mind I wouldn't be alive 
This is not the place 
The one who actually knows the meaning of life is the one who have lived 

As long you can feel the heat when its hot it means you are alive with dreams 

The one without dreams is the one that is not alive 
The one without plans is the one who is not yet born 
The one who claims to have a heart of a hard rock is the one in denial of being alive...

Go tsamaya ke go bona, go bona ke go ithuta...
Wtitting is is documenting thoughts for the future...

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