Nhlanhla Nobela Poems

I loved you from a distance painted my imaginations with different colors of you
And I still wonder which color suits you the best because you own them all
At times it's really hard especially when I have to decide on which lipstick is your favorite
The books you love to read
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Sleep is an enemy when you don't know if you will be closing your eyes for good
So I stare outside as the moonlight is my only guest that snuck in through my small window
Surrounded by old grey frayed damaged and shabby walls that only sing a silent sad song accompanied by drops of water from a leaking roof i can hear these walls cry and I can feel the same pain that the souls that were here before me felt
I have even memorized the number of drops that drop in a minute it is like in a way they are trying to tell me something
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