Yesterday Poem by Alancia Lebogang Mogorosi

I woke up to a dream
In the midst of autumn
When the moon was on vacation
And less tear I knew
Yesterday I woke up to a dream
Yesterday I woke up in the rain
Moving with the rainbow in my eyes
Calling all the stars to count
And singing the songs of freedom

Yesterday I woke in my mother’s womb
Shielded with pride and joy
Yesterday I was born
When all the swallows had gone pass the streams
When friends piled my father’s yard
I was born matchless beauty
And less bruise attained
Nor wounds on a virgin mind

Yesterday I never knew despair
For all the birds sang
Sun rose and stars set
And the flowers shook in breeze
Yesterday I slept
And I had a dream
But today I don’t sleep