Black skin

This skin is a curse
It’s a burden of untold sins
It is borne not without prejudice

Under the shadow of this skin
My aspiration to be free expires
Forever lost in the mirage of youth

How do I think free?
When the shadow remains?
Maybe when I've done eternal time
I will ascent with a new skin

For who will free me
from the shadow of this skin

Cold

It seems u grow cold
As you grow old
Stuck with broken dreams
And a mute pursuit of happiness
There is not much to marvel
Your solitude is a blinding darkness
And friends grow fewer
As the coldness looms large

Is it the broken dreams?
Is it life's arid emptiness?
Is it the man within?
Grown suicidal self mutilating
Where did the warmth go?

Ode to an Old Dream

Old old old dream

When i, with blurry eyes

sought you from the depth of my heart

You vanished like a wind at dawn

Heartbroken i was left dispondent

On my own to pickup where u left

and make believe with whatever glitered

Old old old dream

A wrecking hope

a life shattering aspiration

Thats all you u were

And when i cared to face reality

I was on my own

Old old old dream

Now that i have woken to a new reality

A blissful reality

You emerge like a vision in the night

But dear old dream

The future has come

And i am old news to you

Sirte

(Dedicated to the late Muammar Gadaffi after thinking hard about the past week)

Let it be known
In Sirte and beyond
From Morocco to Madagascar
Cape to Cairo:

Matyrdom is Victory!

Gadaffi Lives!

In the dark (shine)

When your heart can't see no more
Stuck in the depth of darkness
Don't be weary and wonder

For it is in the pitch darkness
That stars shine
And thunderous powers are generated
All in the split of a second

When u are stuck in the dark
You are yet to shine
And will dazzle the world far and near

For great minds, great people
Were but conceived in the dark
When nothing could reveal
A birth so intricate and delicate

But remember this;

Soon the night fade
And the stars won't shine
And the thunder will fade

But it is noble to shine in the dark

Christina (Reminiscing)

The big tree on the road from the clinic
The long walk down the sandy trail
Moonlight watch by the lakeside
A chit chat with a tat by the post office

A midnight walk across Hilbrow
Cloud nine at 6th floor lift in Braamfonteiny
The innocent chat at parktown
The cousin's day, shopping at Cresta

Dinner through the struggles
A wide endless gap of uncertainty
Cape Town, Johannesburg... Parting ways
Joburg, pallotones the dome of everlastingness
A life written as if on a rugged canvas

Meaningless syllables and spaces
But brought to life in the riches of your presence
U alone are the poetry
That brought a rugged canvas to splendor

Last nite

Last nite u gave to me
And took all u could
In the altar of ur passion
I also worshiped
I was immersed in ur fuming fire
Raging wildly in ecstasy
The pitch dark night
Couldn't silence nor drown
Our heaving and gasping
At the peak of our passion
Last night how I wish
It could last forever

Ni do mmbudza

Gole litswu ndi mini na tshedza
Wa zwivhona ndi mini?
Sa dada la vhusiku vhutswu.

Aluwani linwe duvha ni do mmbudza
Zwe nde munyu iwe shaka
Nya wa isedza phungo
Wa sea vhuhole u tshe nwana
U do mini ha musi litshiu tavhela

Aluwani ni do mmbudza
Zwe wa sea nwedzi u maswiswini
Nga hone u shaya ndivho
Hu si kale minwaha i tika luwa
Na lau duvha la milwa nga vhusiku vhutswu
A u nga do zwondolela mato nwedzi?
Musi u tshi vho lila shaka
Aluwani linwe duvha ni do vhudza