Loraine Lotter Poems

If my name was Cinderella
You could be the prince
I could wear my sparkling prom dress
We could fall in love the moment our eyes meet
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Is it just because we're defenceless,
or is it because we're young,
that you always use violence against us
Should hat be the way it's done?
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I found love in a strange place
A place I never thought it would be
but it seemed to have proven me wrong
For love has already caught me
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Eating away at my wellbeing,
I am strained by your absence.
In the depth of your emotion,
I can sense no more of a rapture.
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Chasing after you,
for time and time again
Watching all your moves,
keep asking myself when.
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“Ek sal jou nooit nie vergeet.”
Dis die woorde deur Ouma gespreek.
Deur ‘n Engel se stem,
wat ons almal sal mis,
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As the last of the leaves dropp to the ground,
in brilliant shades of golden brown,
and the wind picks up and stings your skin,
and the night sky calls the coldness in,
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Beckon me to stay tonight.
Switch off the light, flatter me with those eyes.
This is something I never thought of me,
something you never should have let me be.
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Lying in your arms each morning,
looking in your eyes,
I feel your heart close to mine
as the day comes to life,
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Beneath the damage, you can see …
Lying beneath the ashes of the mess I call my life,
you see me …
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