I Say Yes But... Poem by Tumisang Ramarea

I say yes but I mean no,
I stay, yes, but I should go,
My pain says I should know,
My main guess, I cook slow.

Once I said no, a young child,
But you would go anyhow,
I didn't know, a young mind,
It still hurts, oh! even now,

I say yes but I mean no,
I stay, yes, but I should go,
My pain says I should know,
My main guess, I cook slow.

Even as an adult I say yes,
Instead of no so that I feel,
It is my foot that gas press,
So if I die, I owned the deal.

I say yes but I mean no,
I stay, yes, but I should go,
My pain says I should know,
My main guess, I cook slow.

Surely all this has to stop,
I ought to rely on the cogence
Of my instincts before the top.
Remember no is a sentence!