Oh, I Don’t Know I Just Don’t Know- Poem by LLM Mbatha

Oh, I don’t know I just don’t know what shall I be

Living without your love
You say: you are leaving, you’ve had enough and you are leaving


Nomathemba, who are you leaving me with?
Oh, I shall cry my tears dry!


Nomathemba, you are going away!
You say: I am wasting your time? !

You are tired of words and promises
You say: my earth and heaven are in the air

You say: dreams are for the sleeping
But the world is for those that stay awake

Dreams fly away like paper pieces
Your words are stinging, they are piercing

The blind see better than the ones with good vision
The deaf out-dance the ones with better hearing

In this world where the truth tells a lie
My heart can cry its tears dry-