Anele Potelwa (Unpublished) Poems

(To His Girlfriend, Its Our Anniversary)

The souls were merged
Lived with peaceful minds
Of the love binding between their hearts
And all they ever had were truthful moments
...

I saw her
She was friendly like a Pollar bare
As she smilled
My eyes with fantasy nailed
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Let's lie along the tall grass
within the bush
with our backs,
our heads faced to the sky
...

Each day was end with spears
the blood was sucked by all fears
and you would swear no life was beyond
rather no home they belonged
...

with distance the time it took for obedience.
a due true perfection in man's resilence,
that banished with less anxiety im but beyond the senate,
with SHE! he marvelled the stormy sounds neither filled with sweat to the sonet,
...

Nanjengoko ndigqushalaza
Ndiding'esithebeni sobukhoboka,
Jac'elindim eliyintlabeli,
Lihlabela mgama womgabadeli,
...

How on earth
Was I suppose to know
That our birth
Was a friendship to blow
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The lies were worn in fake caps
Their smiles were born out of state debts
And thought that we survived slavery
But our lives were drowning in the deep seas of poverty
...

On those days of too much saidness
that split my heart into two pieces
i stood and watch you wave 'goodbye'
I tried wiping all those tears in your face,
...