Nobert Mathumo Poems

They say a bushman never gains weight
Because they never eat from a plate
Some think it's because of the food
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I was born many moons before this day
Do not mistake this black skin for a fool’s coat
And find reason to gossip in dark corners
Wondering, ’ Who I am'
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Yesterday I painted my dream with the colors of the earth
like many I was afraid of the unknown’ land of dreamers’
The walls of doubt surrounded my thoughts
But to kill the shadow-(dark) is to shine light on it
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Describe to me beauty from the eyes of a blind man
Where color is deflected to nothingness
Let me be a child again and love without expectation
Wake me from this sleep as I walk
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The deepest scars
Never live a mark clear
Like sins of the dark
where physical norms collapse,
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I am hatred not a patriot
The end of love
Disgrace and disgust
A bullet through a flying dove
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I am the voice that speaks
In different tongues
Craft my word throw letters
Curl a new life with verses
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You are the darkness that stole my youth
Had me a fool, I wish now I had known the truth
I now carry from whence I came
You stole my pride and now you chain me as your bride
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When every shape breads shadows
And the cloud wrinkled by the last rays of light
I wait for the sun to nudge down by the hills
Then I take my pen to draw you
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