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Mpho Petrus Manwedi
Mpho Petrus Manwedi
(February 03.1952 / Barkly West/South Africa)
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Mpho Petrus Manwedi Poems
- Be A Man I was yanked from my mother’s womb Pushed into this...
- The Moon Suddenly I was awake Wide-awake like I had never ...
- I Wish I wish I were the song That comes to your mind when ...
- The Climb I hesitated as I touched her legs And she coaxed ...
- Do I Go For It? I sat there my head bowed in dejection It ...
- Here It is long since I have been here Yes you may ask, ...
- How She Must Have Felt? She grabbed me roughly from my child ...
Who am I? You know I have been searching for an answer to this question for the past 54 years, February 03 1952, and still I don’t know.
Mpho Manwedi you say? Actually it should be Manoeli, but someone during the apartheid years saw fit to write it as he/she saw fit and there was nothing I could do so I just left it at that and this adds to, “Who is Mpho Manwedi? ”
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Be A Man
I was yanked from my mother’s womb
Pushed into this world
Without a choice
Slapped on my behind
Without dignity and told,
Go out there and be a man
I was given toy cars and guns to play with
Thrown into this rough and tumble playground
Nobody cared for the boy inside
Nobody ever took note of him
When I came home crying to Mama,
Mama would say, son, men do not cry
Go out there and be a man
I went to school to learn
Not to give but to take
Not to love but to hate
The schoolyard was a jungle
Survival of the...
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