Angela Bontle Ditumiso

I guess it's losing all my words
All my thoughts
Crumbled up or neatly written
Lost to someone else
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I'm 24 revolutions
Around the sun
A lifetime growing
Under my mum's shelter
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Every drop like an icicle
Falling on my nakedness
Stabbing soft skin
I'm left with scars
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You're in some kind of prayer
Except you're praying to no God
But a human
Idol, you love him
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Please don't touch me
I don't desire for you to die young
I know I look like an ordinary being
But under my skin I'm molten rock
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Call me a fool
But I've mourned her into a decade
I'm told every strong emotion
Should in time expire
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1. I have always hated dying things
So I wrote you
Bouquets of flowers instead
Sorry I gave you none of them
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I think
If Love be imposed
We all be slaves
No voice to say no
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Maybe loving from an empty vessel
Is what leaves us mangled
When the lover leaves
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I think part of being a poet
Is constantly pulling your heartstrings
Talking out loud
And yet poking your soul
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I bet you called her stingy
Your mom, I bet when you were younger
You thought she had all the money
In the world
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Once upon a time when love reigned
When the heart was pregnant with happiness
And with expectation that we will forever be
When we talked about ten years to come and saw us united as one
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When the sun is sleeping
And the earth has finally slipped from its watchful eye
The earth can no longer pretend
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If perchance in spring
Our paths cross
And a relationship does sprout
Hold on to me
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First time I took a pen and purged
What was my first two poems
I didn't have the urge
To write
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Pain cripples me
Of watching you fade away slowly
Losing your life to cancer
And I see that you're truly fighting
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Life feels like a trap of some kind
You're always in pain
Always writhing
Crying, begging the chains
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I've been swallowed up by fear
I can't escape the bubble
I heard that you can take it away
In an instant
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Looked back at all my falls
Saw how they helped elevate me
Looked at every tear I've shed
Realized it led me to breakthrough
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