Lola Sanchez

Confined within these walls
wanting to break free
trying to scratch my way out
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Only fools live in the future
only the regretful
live in the past
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Rapid eye movement
blood rushing through my veins
my arteries,
aorta
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the book of things not said
or not said loud enough
is filled with
"do not go''s
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I can feel the colour of you
my brush can depict your face
my pencil the out-lines of your being
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As a rule
I never wrote about you
it seemed wrong
too confining
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dis 'n vreemde gevoel
'n onbeskryflike woordelose gewroeg
om te probeer verduidelik.
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vir almal het ek al gedigte geskryf
vir die wat ek mis
vir die wat ek ken
vir die wat ek eendag hoop om te ken
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I do not love you except that I love you
Neruda had the strange phrase down to pat
I do not love you
But I do?
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organising is supposed to help
bring on the calm

so, here I am
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I submerge myself
surrounded by candles- alight
and I think of you
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Take to the blade
slice my flesh
watch me bleed
make it flow
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I am not evil, I am not good
I am not a rebel
but neither do I conform
I do not go out to please
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Poetry they say
is a form of expression
but dear me
what would the world think
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there's a girl I am slowly
leaving behind
and reaching the woman
deep inside
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Go gently into the good night
do not fear the the darkness
the abyss
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maak tee van my hart
week hom sagkens in
lou warm water
van teleurstelling
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Ek voel hulpeloos by jou
troosteloos sonder jou
beheer het ek lankal afgegee
maar gee nie so gou op,
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Al was ek nie daar nie
het fyn splinters van die
gebroke spieel
tog in my hart gekruip
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die Heiligste entiteit
met sy vinger op die pols van die stad

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