Tea Kawana

We are like instruments,
Unique; percussion, wind, stringed…
Our moods are the keys:
We can be happy, sad, angry,
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I don’t stare
But I’ve made a trillion glimpses.
She is beautiful without
And within, my heart is in awe of her.
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Sometimes I don't feel alive,
and sometimes my feelings are ambivalent.
My thoughts are songs that are on repeat.
I cry a thousand tears within and without and
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On bended knee,
Bowed head,
Hands clasped together,
She prayed.
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The little world we belonged to,
Defined me as East, and you as West.
A line was determined beforehand;
Splitting us by our visible differences,
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When you left,
I went into the kitchen,
To make myself a cup of tea.
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During the mauve sunset,
She was with me; hot, mild, assiduous, all so luxuriate,
clothed in black and a tint of lemon.
She was fair, and my desire for her lead on,
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I am not impeccable,
My natal scars bring about unpleasant things,
Part of me wants to destroy the other;
I want to eat my own flesh, yet drive away my belief.
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I faced the white duvet cover,
but couldn't see it in front of me.
Tears flooded my eyes,
but I couln't feel them.
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Dear God,
Use me as a vessel upon this desert sea
To travel
Use me as a vessel still to reach
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Like a bride ought to be set
let me also be primed:
Or like a young girl who
awaits for her season
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As unworthy as I am;
I came to you.
For there was none other I could
go to.
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It was sunsets then,
It was tea.
It was eyes then
That leaked ease.
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Every day for registration
I would walk in and turn right
to give him a ‘good morning’ smile.
He would reply with that soft voice he had,
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Let me sit still in your palm.

Let me sit still in your palm, and
Tolerate I implore you
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Once again I’m at this downfall in life,
which I never get to see
its beginning or where it lies.
“I don’t get it” I cry.
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If you’d boast of some defeat
Then why should I move towards you?
Why should my steps be at the same pace as yours?
For each time I’d make a step you’d get closer
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I gave you hope,
In my try,
Made it confident,
You took inside
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Lord,
Give me what I deserve
For breaking hearts.
Unintentionally do I,
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</>Tabo, you need to change!
You need to change!
Why have you been going round
this way?
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