Lindokuhle Dawordplaymind Nkosi Poems

The memories of you captures my mind like a slave
My heart expresses mixed emotions

My hopes are slowly fading away like darkness at dawn
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Are these the leaders of tomorrow?
Who joyfully swim in the pool of liquor
Who drowns their youthfulness in pits
As they are enslaved by Nyaope and Heroine
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Heaven I need a hug
The last kiss
I need that last fight
For heaven you're holding my
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I'm all alone in the deserted night
You were the best thing that ever happened in my life
Why did you have to leave, when I wanted you to stay?
Why did you change your path, when I wanted us to be intertwined?
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I am a poem
That voices out the voice of the voiceless.
Hear me reciting to the deaf,
Utilizing the mic of my ancestors.
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Truthfully you are my everything,
My healer and redeemer.
You've never forsaken, nor forgotten I
You knitted I in my mom's womb,
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I was afraid to voice out my opinions in some things, always felt dumb and small
I felt abused verbally
Emotionally and sometimes sexually and physically
See, my biggest mistake was to call you my everything
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I
Remember
The kisses and hugs we shared,
That created the memories of today,
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Memories of you capture my mind like a storm,
My heart expresses mixed emotions, torn.

My hopes fade away with the coming of dawn,
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My grandmother, so kind and wise,
With a heart as big as the skies.
She chose me out of her brood,
Her love for me, oh so good.
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