Ofentse Mercy Hajane Poems

It must be an awkward life
Not knowing the science of life
Not knowing that stars are balls of fiery plasma.
Producing heat by means of nuclear fusion within their core
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Unto the midst of hell.
I remained chained to my warrant of freedom.
My body knows only the scourge that
Dwells deep within the scourgerer.
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Black
Mighty black,
Dark as the seas of sorrow,
Dull of by the cry of the untamed.
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The darkness swarmed my place,
The light faded.
Faces unmolding.
Touches without origins.
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In a torrential downpour,
My face drenched in blood,
Humor mercilessly washed away,
Love glowing with a sinister shade of red,
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In a desiccating cold of midnight mid-winter air,
two figure stood lost in their day's work,
one more candid than the other,
though looking at them, the translation thereof is lost in their peculiarity.
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What story do they tell of me?
The queen who was exiled to the desert of despair.
Scorched, blackened in an ancient cavern that their people had long forgotten.
How long have I lain in that darkness?
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Ba bua pale efe ka 'na?
‘na mofumahadi ya neng a le lelekwa hare ha lehwatata la nyahamo.
Ke chele, ke ntshofetse hare ha dikgaheng tsa mehleng kgale,
Mehleng ya tebalo.
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Come O' Holy Spirit.
Come O' child of men.
Talk no more ridicule of the world that birthed thee.
Let thy veins cometh from thine feet,
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In the suffocating night,
My cries go unheard, swallowed by the void.
My agonies go unfelt, ignored by the cruel world.
On this treacherous path I journey,
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