By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: When the trials and tribulations of life had me against the ropes Peace & be still, it commanded my sensations putting me at ease When suspicious minds in a state of paranoia got me perjuring She asked, ‘Do you trust yourself enough to love someone without hurting?’ By shifting the affection course to something as […]
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By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: I called Him Father yet I never met Him He accepted, tolerated and embraced me beneath him Here on earth can't fathom what a mortal life's worth Tell me am going absurd as my life obscures in this filth He wasn't just man I say unidentified not even as a fifth Gobbling whips He endured […]
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By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: When did I go wrong when it all felt right? True culture in motion perceived as a might Like a thief I lavished in the night Maybe I was right yet I lost my sight Blinded by this sphere landed in this plight Against the whirlwind I flapped in my flight Bursting in the day […]
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By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: It's been long up to a point I don't remember God tried his best just to calm my temper The world pulled all its ammunition upon this life Stranded in pain and life consumed by misery & strife One day I think, thinking this silver lining comes to end Closer to a century comes realization […]
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By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: Desires and needs unfulfilled or placed on hold ultimately called for departure Departure of a broken heart and scorned soul almost beyond repair Repair what was acquired and freely received without any alteration Alteration of the mind, vulnerable beings yet alone plans set according to time Time to become and be where any mankind ever […]
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By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: The feeling so intense and heavy lays a foundation beneath my heart Nerves in the head protrude violently making the face unpleasant to stare The fall of tears and rear view gestures has long settled for retirement Lost in tracks of time so far I cannot differentiate night from day Anger and pain for breakfast, […]
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By Talent Mqongo, South Africa: Eyes wide shut Slim fat pocket Prison made home Boy girl dancing Dead man walking Kittens milk dogs Scientist's gone crazy Food all powder Moon turns red Same sex marriage Humanity in a cage Incest on the rise Morals buried alive Destiny in flames Racism televised End of all tribes Human sight intact Still eyes […]
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By Talent Mqongo: As if life itself wasn’t enough for man to work with; Life is full of fun but fun is nothing without it We page through it messing up with things or people who don’t enhance it We strive to belong and endlessly hurt just to fit in Nothing makes sense neither am I getting any cents Pausing […]
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By Talent Mqongo: Woke up this morning with a challenge to myself A challenge to just find and do something simple How hard can it be to think of the simplest thing to do Most hours of the day have long passed and I see no simplicity in that Such a boring pain upon my discovery that my mind can’t […]
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By Talent Mqongo: In life, the ones before me believed it all falls into place in time Restless voices echo through the wind as I struggle to stay in line The sun rises from the east and sets in the west; So is the shadow trapped within the invisible human nest It's daily toil to effect change without being transformed […]
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