Falling Apart Poem by Thembekile Ntshangase

Confusion of feelings,
Exploding of emotions,
Heart troubled to an extent of not even knowing the cause,
The retarded mind fails to reason,
The weary soul filled with boredom and loneliness
Drowns down the river of misery,

Disintegration of internal pillars
Faith faints to no existence and
Passion fades away,
Hope flies gone and
The vision of the future keeps on blurring,

The force that obligates the human nature to
Wake up in the morning,
Look forward to something, weakens day by day.
Emptiness and hollowness deep inside,
State of exhaustion in the body and spirit,
Idleness finds its way in and before you know it,
You’re utterly useless.

All these odd happenings reveal,
That one is slowly but surely falling to pieces.
Though brittle we ought to firm up,
Face up with the gloom life bears.