Stella Sisanda Qishi Poems

i wish i never came t know you,
to love you for the person you were,
the things you did and most importantly
how you made me feel
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Listen…
There’s no sound of anger or of annoyance,
There’re neither cars racing on the highway
Nor that highway for them to race on,
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She queues outside the community hall
With a two-month old hanging loosely on her back,
The worn out towel carelessly tied;
A three-year old on her left
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of all the things that life had given me
still, i felt my heart brimming with discontent
there was a hole somewhere inside me
that no one could seem to fill
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For Koketso Marishane

they knock my heart to numbness,
echoes so cold and so inevitably strong.
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rapt, turning with every step
drooling, whistling, fraught with need,
pimped out rides hooting, faces
dangling from lowered electric windows
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You pleaded me to punch you special phrases
each day and said you'd whisper in my ears in response.
these modern cords and keys curtail the miles
you trod and now little do i convey my undying love
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Your fingers slipped through mine
my heart weeping for you
aching for you
you set off on a journey
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a grudge haunts you,
it gnaws at you,
it redefines you.
a grudge keeps total bliss at bay,
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i'm an african poet
i hail from the dark soil
baked by the southern sun
coated in my glaringly black skin
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