Broken

You say you are broken
And i wonder
What breaks a diamond?

What does that even mean
When all i see is perfection

What breaks
A smile that has set days alight
With the wildest of bliss

Is it when it is engulfed in darkness?
Wrapt in despair?
Or is it when it finds a home in anxiety?

Don't say you a broken
Where there is no pieces

You are the smile
You are the joy
What is left?
When that too is broken

Coming Home Soon

Stars above tell a tale
They say you will be coming home soon
But its been night after night
And I am walking alone
In this pitch dark night

The roads we travelled
They tell a tale
They say you will be coming home soon
But its been years and I am still looking out
Wondering if you still remember the way home
To a place, we have been

The places we visited
They are talking to me each day
They say you will be coming home soon
I know soon you will be here
One night I will open the door of this heart
And it will be you walking in
To a friendship that couldn't be eroded by time
To a friendship that we called home

Even the lines of this verse are talking to me
They say you will be coming home soon
I am waiting

The Mute Pursuit

The mute pursuit
Its a never ending jorney
Carved out of endless nights
Its end is unknown
Though it aspires
For a never ending bliss
But it persists
Never ending
As if it is the end
But the wise know
It is the means
To a blissfule end

Tsengela Tsiwana

Lutendo ndi tsengela tsiwana
Ndi tshitangu musi wa swiswi
Musi ndila itshi ndi bva vhubvo
Vhutshilo ha swifhala sa dungunudzi
Na mutali a pepeleka
Mupfumi a shaya
Hone a tendaho kha ene mune
Una ifa lisa sini
Na duvha line a thafha

Another world?

You wonder
If i am still the same
Or am i still running
In the mute pursuit for happiness
This never ending burden
To find what pleases the heart
You know i am lost
Look where i have been
These are my footprints
I hope there is another life
Is there another world
Another heart

Eternity

You said to pray
Even as the road gets thorny
But its dark now
Things fall apart
The world is not here
And when you are with me
You know you are alone
But even in this dark night
I know there is no god for the weak
Perhaps one morning i wake up
To watch the sun rise to a blissful day
A sad day indeed for soon it will be meet
That the same shall set with the rising demons
Where do i kneel when there is no peace
Does god know where you have been

I wish to see the sun rise
I wish to see the rose blossom
Hopefully they shine like the stars
That set the road lit for you
In the highs and lows of Pretoria

I wish to walk again free
I wish to wonder purposelessly
Hopefully, i ended up in a world
That is awashed with rhymes and rythm

I am a dreamer
Locked in this prison called night
I refuse to pray for a miracle for morning
That ushers a day that will wither

I am looking for eternity
In the same place, i last saw it.

Linda

Linda are you ok?
Why is your voice muted?
Is that tears i hear flowing in your voice

Linda are you ok?
Can you fit a smile?
On a torn face?

Can you chuckle?
With swollen eyes?
A cracked skull

Why are you talking to me?
Have you been to the doctor?
Linda don't cry
Tomorrow is a better day
Whenever it comes

Linda are you ok?
Run?
Dont run Linda
What if you run and never stop?

Linda don't hang up?
Talk to me so long
Who is back?
Where are the kids Linda?

Are you ok?
Linda?
Linda, are you ok?

I wrote a poem

I wrote a poem
For the day when I cannot write no more
When the night silence falls
For the day the ink dries
When words like rivers vanish
And ears that listened
CANNOT BE SEEN

Nightmare

Don't sleep, its a trap
The night is pregnant with untold nightmares
They don't tell you
They hope you sleep through the dark
And wake up transformed a lasting beauty
But the night is wicked
It haunts, it kills
Both the body and the vision it carried
Don't be a fool and sleep
Or you wake up in a bed full of anguish
A nightmare that refuses to vanish with the dawn
Don't sleep; not in summer
Don't sleep; not in winter
Don't sleep; next to a dog
Don't sleep; with a princes
It is a trap and your night dries up

From what we heard

From what we heard
He was a great man
Full of a heart
That left many in awe

From what we heard
He was a loving man
Full of greatness
That with awe captured many

From what we heard
Nothing untoward could be said
Not even a sad
Could provoke an animal with

From what we heard
He was nothing but a spirit
A benevolent soul
And that's why we are here

I wonder what is said in silence
When no one is listening
Does silence sing him a praise
Or does it sing for his fur