Onalethuso Petruss Ntema Poems

What if there was no time?
would there still be necessary
to conform to time
when there is none?
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What if there was no money?
would there still be greed?
what if there was no hunger?
would there still be poverty?
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My belly
is empty
like an empty
belly
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Saddest Smiles

Saddest smiles of silent hearts,
Have cyclones of scariest thoughts,
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'Come forth, and bring
with yours a heart of divine
Love when life entangles,
Like seekers of the truth in their dream
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I have a weak body tonight,
That which may not take me further than tonight,
My heart beats me slower like showers of a misty morning,
My eyes redden to my tightened nerves like prisoners of murder,
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I’m a distant stone alone—
By the wilderness deeper in the far mountains rock,
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the dry trashes
and ashes
of the beige grass,
i pass
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the wings of a butterfly
spread in color to my eye
and fly away to the sky
to rest on my cold feet,
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i was walking along
a stream
beyond the thick
jungles so alone,
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