Take me back

Take me back to the darkness
To the deepest of your wicked heart
For I cannot bear the light
To stand naked all alone
It gets colder each day
The warm spring
Hardly warms a pulse
I was happier in the dark
Locked in your cold embrace
Now I stand alone
Not even a shadow a bliss nearby
Who opened your eyes?
To the evil of your ways
Who called you to light
A place without a room for us

Love (but not too dearly)

Dont hold on too fast
To a warm hand of a lover
Dont walk too slow
Through parks and valleys of life
Don't write her name too deep in your heart
Though she loves truly
And your love is true
Tomorrow is an untold secret
Where you walked together
You might wake to walk alone
Her name might vanish with the wind
And cease to mean anything
Love but not too dearly
A stranger you have met
A stranger you have loved
But dont love too much
Lest you walk alone

Zondeni

You fought in silence
For the landless people of Africa
You lived a life of sacrifice
Suffered endlessly
Yet your life was a service to Africa
You did not need the spotlight
You lived in silence
You fought to the end
Though your name may not
Be mentioned with big occupied name
You remain in the hearts
and souls of landless people
They know of your undying love for Africa
They know you served
They know you suffered
They know you Sacrificed
For Africa

That Boy

That boy
That boy you see on the street
That boy you see roaming
Up and down with cheerful friends
He goes home to a empty house
He goes home to a family of strangers

That boy
Though he is cheerful
His day and night are shells of emptiness
He is fatherless

That boy
You know him
He has a mother
He has a sister
He has a family
But not a father

That Boy
He has a name you know
But it is not his name
He has a surname you know
But it is not his surname

That boy
That boy
A fatherless boy
Has a father
I am him

Father

A friend might be for a season
A lover for a reason
But a father forever

What then when all that remains
is a faint memory of the hey days

Is he still there?
To love and protect?
Even when seasons wither
and reasons fade with time

Is absence in another name
Not an absence

Does he see when he is gone
Watch over our hopes and dreams
Or does he cease to be when he is absent
A father

Doomed (Prison)

To give myself up?
Would it appease you?
To give you my red-bloody heart
Would you set me free?
Its me and only me
No one but myself
If i walked myself into prisons of your thought
Would you wake me up?
From these sleepless nights
Mindlessly thinking of the better days
Before the day i met you
If i surrender my all
can i walk?
If i forsake all i have?
Would that free my soul?
Or am i doomed
What is it?
What can i do?
To free myself from this nightmare
From the sun and the moon
That set my day and night ablaze
Heartless
Selfish
They say
But there is no sign of freedom
I can't walk
I can't walk away

Hunted

Its a muted pursuit for happiness
Sometimes i climb mountains
Walk on pitch dark thorny paths
Only to look back
You are on my back
Flashing blue lights
Am i an animal?
To be chased
And hunted
Don't lie to the world
In my hunger
In my distress
I am still a home to my blood
When this night is over
I hope you are there
To see the sun rise
From a place you despised
I hope its not too late
To see that in the mute pursuit
You became a nightmare
That made a dark night even more evil
Let the children come to me

Fast

Fast?
I wondered why??
A man walking fast earned a name
Not knowing it wasn't the speed
Of his walk but his brain
So fast
He was ahead of his time
His rhymes at times
Beyond our comprehension
At the mountain top
A fusion of rhymes and rhythm
Never made it out of the village
But he left anyway
So fast he never came back
Gone without a trace
No perfect pictures only memories remain
Of Fast

- for Humbulani 'Fast' Chibase

The Muted Pursuit

Sometimes you sit and ponder
Wonder if the mute pursuit ever ends
Is there a home for a disposed soul?
You wonder if the weary day ever ends
If the dark night ever give way
To diamonds and pearls
To rays of sunshine
That rises from afar
To a place beyond
A pursuit is not a walk
Its not a fun run
It is a weary toiling
It is a thirst that rises at dawn
And never find sleep at night
Sometimes you walk
Sometimes you run
There is no fun
Unless a pursuit is to happiness
That can last longer than lingering moments
Of bliss here and there and no more
When you have walked
Do you walk some more
Or do you find a tree
Embrace the tiresomeness
It is ok after-all
To be tired

Broken (What breaks a man?)

What breaks a man?

Is it the sun that doesn't rise?

Or is it a winter, that comes too early?

When a man who walked tall

Now wobbles aimlessly 

Is it the road?

Is it the journey?

That breaks him

What brings a man to his weakest?

is it a heart break?

or a heart that never got broken?

Confusion runs deep 

When i see him who was strong

With a heart build of bricks 

Slowly crumble to pieces 

What happened?

What breaks him?

What breaks his heart?

What breaks his soul?

Did he love and not find love?

Or did he hate and found love?

Why such misery on him?

What breaks a man?

Will he break again?

Or is he finished?