onesimo odwa mabovula

If I wasn’t a soul taker in your eyes,
I’d be a salt taker in the eyes of the world.
If I wasn’t your main man,
Then I would be nothing but a man to the rest of the world.
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We live in a world of possibility,
We love and loose here.
When we think we have seen it all a whole new world opens up,
With in us, with even more possibility.
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I know how I fell feel but I’m afraid of what the
Future might unfold
I’m scared of attaching myself to you
I don’t want to get my heart broken
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I’ve been hurt, but it hurts me more now than ever before
My love for you amounted to garbage
I paid to you homage
Wished for you and us nothing but happiness
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Looks of envy and admiration be to he, who serves another
He who’s looked down on but, never does the same to any.
Praise be to the peasant, his fellows and their houses at large.
Praise be to the one who was breed in a brothel
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Should have been prepared for all this,
but I never was.
Should have done right, given a chance but I never did.
Righting a wrong could never be.
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I've learnt to be free
Found me a free soul.
Not free in my solitude
Rather found refuge in another being
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I know pain and sadness
I wake up in the morning to it
I sleep in the evening on it
Its in my heart the whole day
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I love you I’m sure,
But I’m scared
Not of loving you,
But of not being loved by you
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I look at the mirror

I look at t he mirror and I like what I see.
I see what I see, you see what you see
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Africa a beautiful warzone
Home to me and you and them
But then the grass is not greener across the oceans.
What would a place be with out any negatives?
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Writing never expires through time,
It only transpires through time.
Writing only inspires those readily accessible to it.
The crux of writing is in its legibility, because
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I had lost you; you were no longer in my life.
I was like a lost son in a forgotten life.
I had lost hope, because my life was filled with sorrow.
Silently I wondered alone with no one,
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Am I in love; or am I not
I’m not sure because I don’t know
What the actual meaning of love is
I don’t know how it feels to love
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You are an African man, you should be proud
But uncharacteristically of an African lion
You don’t live up to the status
You make woman rule your life
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