So Stay Poem by tawanda omphile plaatjie

So Stay



Something else that Gabriel Mogomotsi Rasenyai and I came up with...

Quaint: Let us meet in a different place we haven’t been to
Let me sing you a song like the wonder years

Tawa: And this song will play in my heart for years
Like a royal harp playing to everyone of my emotions
It will be our song
And if I ever forget the words, then our story must come to an end

Quaint: Then I will die of a broken heart
And fear my spirit shall never be able to find rest
Let not apathy steal you away from the music of our love
That you should one day vacate our home of promises
Promises I keep without tire or pay
Stay with me today my dear, in our room of portraits
And let us paint our future together
With bodies strewn across white sheets joined in the beauty of creation
And when the stock does visit we will teach these our children
The words we wrote on the walls that day
Please stay
I couldn’t live a day without the warmth of your loving gaze
So stay

Tawa: With gladness I will oblige the desires of my heart
That can only be to stay
Find rest o` ye masculine soul
For our future is painted on canvas, in blood
Mother natures perfect color and permanent paint
Never to go faint
I only fear that you may be but a shadow
A figure in my imagination
Conjured up to calm the storms of my emotions
To fill the hole I call my heart
And warm the side of my bed that remains untouched
With each ray of sun that steals a peek through my window every morning, I pray that u never fade
For your shadow injects hope into my soul
That indeed if I stay
I wont ever have to befriend the walls of an asylum

Quaint: a lonely heart can conjure horrors that deny one sleep and destroy his peace
Leaving his house unkempt
And so I offer myself payment for love`s debt to you
If it should be, I take pleasure in playing nurse to you sweet love
Please excuse your heart of past ache
Allow it here today to let love back in
Feel the touch of my lips
Is it mere simulation of a fearful imagination you feel?
Am I really here?
Standing here real as the sunrise on a summer morning?
Take my hand and I shall never dream of leaving your side
For mine eyes have been blessed to see into a future without you
There is no rhyme
Take ye courage then, my love
Look the hopeless fool
Dance to the forgotten song of faith
Rest your hand in mine, and I shall cleave unto you eternally

Tawa: I fear I can only do you fair and take a rain check your sacrifice of love
For love`s debt to my broken emotions is never ending
Vine yards and castles could have failed to make up for it
No man should surrender to being love`s prisoner like that
I do say though the fell of your lips is drowning
Indeed there is a presence where you are
My imagination has given way to a thrilling reality
Your presence has now become a part of a future carved on stone
When you dream I hope you never see space between us
Like a woven cloth that ties tightly together the wood of what is considered a true African woman,
Let our souls interlock, mould into each others paths
For what is fire without smoke?
Rain without clouds?
You are my fire, my clouds
A necessity for this here soul to keep going
I know I shall never share a joke with the walls of an asylum,
For you are as real as the wind that blows and whispers sweet melodies of faith and remembrance
Giving me back what was robbed from me,
In the name of love.

Quaint: allow me be a prisoner, arrest my heart in love.
Please stay and play prison warden to my heart

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Gaborone Botswana, Africa
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