Walking Tall Poem by Lehlohonolo Selai

With pain you pinned me down
My body you ceased with torment
The sorrows still I taste of our doom
Your smile that reeks of entrapment
Oh you took your shot to break me down
Yet still, I walk tall

Was I a jerk to love you then
Perhaps in your mind indeed I was
Praising you and the marvellous works of your hands
Was I a fool to open my arms
To you and your mockery for love
Indeed I was, indeed I was

So my gut I fixed at last
The one you so thought to have demolished
Pain makes me uneasy on the crest
For your presence renders a taste so similar and harsh
So my gut I polished for this part
To take my stand and walk tall

Yes I walk tall and free and sober
For your presence was quite addictive a substance
Plunging me in the deepest slumber
Plunging me in the farthest corners of aloneness
I am free
I walk tall

I chased hope to the extent of time
Knowing little of the new territory called freedom
Interception has finally met with your reign over me world
To carry me out on his arms to freedom
I chased hope at last to this route
Where with hope I walk tall

Let time polish my look
For my heart beats with new melodies of joy
Let my swag thrive now and for good
For shabbiness and I are on the verge of a nasty divorce
I am free at last
I walk tall