Would you cry if I left earth and decided to stay in heaven
or wherever they chose to keep me?
Would it hurt to only see me in your dreams and seeing my arms hang from the sides of my body
knowing how perfect they once fit you,
how they once swallowed you
and trapped you in the depths of my bosom,
that you preferred to drown than to breathe?
How much would it hurt if you called for me and I never came
yet you hear the echoes of my tone behind every strangers voice, the sounds you once chose to ignore?
Would you cry for me if I left and never returned?
Would you weep for me if I wasn't here anymore?
Would your sun continue to shine?
14.12.12
13.12.12
12.12.12
“the point of it all”
Let you and I talk about that point,
retrace our hearts to that very second,
where you realised you desired me more than you fancied life,
that moment when you yielded your entirety into the precariously shaky palms of my hands
knowing how capable I am of breaking you
the point that lived beyond faith
where you stood on the edge of my second chance.
retrace our hearts to that very second,
where you realised you desired me more than you fancied life,
that moment when you yielded your entirety into the precariously shaky palms of my hands
knowing how capable I am of breaking you
the point that lived beyond faith
where you stood on the edge of my second chance.
12.12.12
12.12.12
Never to be seen again,
Never to be felt again,
Perhaps to slip a million minds
as quickly as death leaves its preys.
But I was here
I lived to tell the miraculous tale
Of life in this generation
11.12.12
You tell them
"Just be
yourself"
yet you remain lost behind
that filthy façade
So please tell me,
what’s better between your
deceptions and shams?
possibly you've reached
the equilibrium
between your false truths
maybe you are trapped in
between
the threads of your unspeakable
reality
Poor wanderers, if only
they knew,
that your wisdom is as imaginary
as the smile you wear
when you greet the worshippers,
every Sunday morning.
7.12.12
5.12.12
LoveGlori at Moyo's Zoolake tomorrow night
I can't seem to grow weary of the LoveGlori blues and so can Nomonde. We seem to be more hung up than we were when we first saw them in February at Urban Zulu Roof Top. Every moment in their trance means restoration to my entire being. We went to see them at SABC Radio Park on Sunday and boy was I blown away, they have a bad habit of winning my heart over and over again and I know that I am not that weak. Each second in their midst is resurrection; every instance with them always leaves me blown away to ashes of utter joy. When in their presence I am not afraid to die because I know I will rise again to life owing to their melodies. They have become saviour to my ever so fickle soul.
I wondered what is it about them that makes me weak at
the knees and leaves me begging for more. I, for a while was convinced that it
was their beauty; it just had to be Nozuko's beauty that leaves me screaming
"Abba Father" to my creator in worship. Ato's smile was definitely the reason for
Nomonde's death. That had to be it. We now knew the reasons for our fall and
that made things a little clearer. Until I realized, even if Zuko had to cover
herself in all rags of ugliness, she would still remain my compeller. Her
beauty was not enough to have me in their audience in every of their events,
something greater than a smile had to be responsible for this. Even if Ato
stopped smiling, she still would command Momo to knees.
And then it hit me, as hard as it hit Momo that no beauty
could have such a hold on either of us, beauty could not have such command, it
was their voices, their angelic voices that leave us drowning in floods of joy,
that leave us in a state of euphoria. It is humbling how alive they are on
stage, how they calm the audience with their jazzy blues with just a pinch of
comedy. The love they have for their craft would give sight to the blind and
strength to the weary.
I will speak endlessly if I started to speak of their
songs and how each and every jam seems to rub me up just the right way but I
will speak nonetheless, just a little I will speak. How Ato sings "Ubuhle
bakhe" makes me appreciate the kind of love I am in, "Call me"
actually makes me realise just how needy and broken I actually am. The way Zuko
sings "Ivili" is not of this world, the space I enter into when those
lyrics escape from her lips cannot be of this generation. The passion that
flows in Ato's eyes when she lets out "Te Amo" leaves me chanting
with the heavens in thanksgiving for the creator of art that dwells in her soul
and the seriousness that covers Zuko’s face when she sings “Again” just
confirms that they mean business with their craft and with their hearts.
The melodies that these ladies have created cannot be
known by me and Momo alone, it is a sermon for the whole universe to bask in. A
lyrical sermon. Their music on SoundCloud brings zero justice to them; you must
literally tan in their melodies; that will take you to the adventures of Peter
Pan or Alice in Wonderland, to actually say you have come to know the Christ of
Art. Luckily for you, they will be performing at Moyo's Zoo lake tomorrow
evening.
Go there and be jazzed away by their careless blues.
4.12.12
1.12.12
The lessons we teach today and the battles of the previous night might not change our lives tomorrow, it might never change our lives at all but the next generation will reap the fruits of your labour so aluta continua, whatever your struggle, your descendants will benefit from your blood and sweat.
she
Her love
rose from the soles of my feet to the
follicles of my hair
she worshipped my every limb
she always was a celebrant of mankind.
She speaks,
vomits words of restoration,
I have risen from the ashes seven times by
virtue of her devotion,
she whispers words of strength,
the ghost whisperer
she is.
Her hands
snatched me out of Lucifer's cradle,
Satan’s fugitive I now am,
such melody came from the tips of her fingers,
as she pulled me out from captivity,
her birth must have been intended just for me,
Her skin,
such unblemished skin she has
my ocean of pleasure,
save me not I am drowning,
dip me in the depths of your bosom, I implore.
So I played hide and seek in the pores of her
skin,
A pursuit to uncover all the secrets she hides
from the world,
to take for myself the light she hoards in her
soul,
until she yelled I am coming
to save you from the iniquities of your own
flesh,
to release you from the chains of your
yesterdays,
she said.
Her lips
Tasted like summer rain,
The drops from Jupiter,
A little more like the kisses from Adam’s wife,
She was more supernatural than real,
The reincarnation of Mother Mary
she is.
Her voice
soothing to all my aches,
mellow to all my blues,
my circadian medicament,
my humble compeller,
she is.
She,
She held the rays of the sun at the tip of her
tongue,
Spoke in syllables of thunder to the rebels,
Clouds dared not whisper a word in her
presence,
Her command was out of this world
That Gabriel fell at her watch
She once ordered the sun linger longer
so what is a mere man’s fall,
whose pride clearly preceded his faith?
Her aura
She serenaded the daredevils to slumber
Lit every tunnel with her smile
At the contours of her mouth sat hymns of hope
that she’d arbitrarily let escape to make the atheists
to believe,
in him, the Great I am, that made their very
existence possible.
But she wasn't what I was used to,
she clearly wasn't what I prayed for,
you see, I prayed for a lover,
to embrace my agony with her careless touches,
to be intoxicated in endless buckets of fear,
and my list ended there.
so I never banked on midnight nor day long
conversations,
those all day Sunday sexual celebrations
that always left us hungry for more,
the gourmets of flesh we became,
I never banked on promises fulfilled,
Nor was reciprocated love a fan of mine, was
so accustomed to unrequited affection,
But she let me lay on her bosom, though smothered
in distress, drenched from the floods of tears escaping from my eyes; she let me
in the depths of her soul
she clearly had a love only the gods could
comprehend,
perhaps she too is a god hence inexplicable,
she surely was a different kind of a she,
she became my author of faith as I became the
pump of liberation in her every vein,
something more like we were each other's life
support,
but she wasn't my mother's cup of tea,
definitely not at all the girl next door,
she clearly had a love way out of my league,
she was the only girl who fell in love with my
soul and all that makes my heart beat
a different kind of she.
©GayKindaLove 2012.12.01
28.11.12
She was broken in every alphabet of broke,
Like how the glass touched the groundAnd became shards of something once worthy,
Like how the rain interrupted the melodies of the sun,
Like how my heart ached for yesterday.
She was pained in every rhyme of ache,
Like how the bride never made it down the aisle,Like how her Mother's child died at birth,
Like how the leaves fell from the tree and left her bare,
Like how she never heard from the lover who went outside to smoke.
But she was beautiful,
In every syllable of beautiful,Like how the rain made love to the leaves,
as the they fell from the tree
and collectively they made sweet melodies with the ground,
What a beautiful collaboration.
Though wrapped in utter distress,
She remained the most beautiful girl in the horizon, Like how the sun graced every dawn,
and the moon sang at every dusk.
Though her agony preceded her happiness,
She tirelessly knelt on the corner of her bed at every
midnight hour,Clothed in her full armour of faith,
asking the gods, if not her creator, to remember her once more.
A collab with Jowey
Jowena Qwabe:
I placed my
love in your hands, watched it dance on your palms as if the future was musical
and told you? My love is for keeps. I should've told you don't ever leave, that
my stars would bleed without you but even if I did, you would've thought I was
just being romantic, just like the day I told you, a world without you? Is my
greatest fear. Panic becomes me, my heart? Skipping too many beats but not
enough that could aline with the moon and sun till I eclipse into yesterday,
relive it knowing it is our last day. My voice would be softer and forever
would still be real enough to manipulate into more echoes, we needed more
echoes.
GayKindaLove:
We needed
more echoes, maybe the sound of my tears would now lead you home, sprinting to
the pits of my arms like you truly heard me whisper forever, and I would
swallow you in my arms, you always were a perfect fit, fitting to my very
being, perhaps the drops of my loneliness would hurry you to the sight of my
eyes had I spoke louder the words I should have said when you still could hear,
when I still could make you listen, maybe I should have sang louder the hymns
of your praises when you felt un-pretty before my eyes, maybe, maybe then,
you'd come home, haunted by the echoes of my affection.
Jowena Qwabe:
You were the
greatest words God ever spoke to me, now your absence feels so much like his
cold shoulder, my tears go hard. I lost my words in every verse I kept reading
to make me stronger, make me understand why your heart was too weak to carry
on, why I should be strong enough to move on. I can barely walk; I am drunk on
pain, cursing at every shooting star, shooting at my soul... You are my only
wish
GayKindaLove:
So I wished
upon the star in your heart to give me my 3rd second chance, to redeem myself
for the umpteenth time, maybe, maybe, I am a glutton for bad decisions that
leave your eyes flooded with tears, maybe I'm difficult to love that I push you
away to the arms of those who would pleasure in our fall so I weep to the
heavens to lead you home, just this one time, I hail to the gods to send you my
way, though it may be the last time but I, but I, I stutter at the mention of
your name haunted by the cracks I left in your soul.
Jowena Qwabe:
Your soul
the promise I always kept close to mine, till I broke into a half completed by
you. So paint me a portrait to beautify our end and tell me how the colours
taint the truth if they are so true. Tell me the heavens I dug into your
sunrise where nothing but lies and I will accept our end, my tears will stop
where your truth begins. I will strip you naked, for her to have, rip my name
from your skin because you swear you are not mine, fitting oh so perfectly into
my arms, you swear you are not mine... The truth dies in my arms, on your lips
and when she kisses you? I pray she does not choke on it. Because you are mine
but then again, one can live on a lie... I'm fine
GayKindaLove:
Though you
have abandoned the house we built, I still say I'm fine, surely I can learn to
live with a broken heart, surely the heavens are preparing a home for me,
surely this is the death of me but what is death to a soul already dead, what
is light to a soul that feeds in all that is dark? Surely I will be fine if I
not already am. When the angel of the dead comes for me, I will be resurrected
to a life for the dead.
So I wished
upon the star in your heart to give me my 3rd second chance, to redeem myself
for the umpteenth time, maybe, maybe, I am a glutton for bad decisions that
leave your eyes flooded with tears, maybe I'm difficult to love that I push you
away to the arms of those who would pleasure in our fall so I weep to the
heavens to lead you home, just this one time, I hail to the gods to send you my
way, though it may be the last time but I, but I, I stutter at the mention of your name haunted
by the cracks I left in your soul.
We needed more echoes, maybe the sound of my tears would now
lead you home, sprinting to the pits of my arms like you truly heard me whisper
forever, and I would swallow you in my arms, you always were a perfect fit,
fitting to my very being, perhaps the drops of my loneliness would hurry you to
the sight of my eyes had I spoke louder the words I should have said when you
still could hear, when I still could make you listen, maybe I should have sang
louder the hymns of your praises when you felt un-pretty before my eyes, maybe,
maybe then, you'd come home, haunted by the echoes of my affection.
23.11.12
Once upon a time
At
the peak of that luminous day
The
angry sun presented her discoveries to whoever dared to lend an ear
Her
nemesis was to be tormented to lifelessness, she anticipated.
The
sun finally uncovered the secrets of the dark, she boasted.
Fruitlessly
she spoke of how the night relied on the moon to breathe
and
told tales of how the stars sat next to the moon as if they were her offspring
she
too desired a companion, more brighter than the stars of course
the
rain always chased her away so she was no alternative
To
her demise the jury failed to grasp the motive for her contest
That
they showed unremitting favour to all that is brought into being at twilight
On
that day she finally came to terms with the reality
that
they both were created to reign on dissimilar times of the day
and
that she was strong on her own, the empress of the day she was labelled
only
then did she shine without jealousy
only
then did she know her place in the kingdom
In
the kingdom of the day she reigned
and
they lived happily ever after
21.11.12
That
beaming almost blinding light never came as they pledged
nor
was the voyage any easier
the
rain bowed on me even harder and undeniably angrier
this
surely was a peculiar kind of a tunnel
the
one they surely neglected to speak of
for
they certainly knew about it
it
was written all over fate's eyes
20.11.12
19.11.12
What
made it you?
Of
all the multitudes who come flying to my sight,
those
hopefuls who almost made it home,
flooding
me with honey sweet promises.
What
made you the one I chose?
could
it be that smile that shone brighter the sun
that
aura more enchanting than the moon
or
was it the melody that escaped from your lips when you stuttered my name
You are a god, a deity of splendour,
a torrent of magnificence,
Worthy of all the reverence
in the horizon, you beautiful Empress, your Excellency,
Let all humanity touch
your feet in exaltation of the God that dwells in your spirit,
Let drip upon the
follicles of their hair the verses of authority,
Let them bow to your
commands, oh beautiful queen of Eden,
Let your lyrics of wisdom
linger in their hard-stoned hearts,
Do not settle for anything
short of royalty,
Lest you forget who your
father is,
The Great I Am
He is
You litter my mind with unbroken musings of you. Such beautiful mess
Taking hold of me in between every breath. Perfect intruder
The sovereign of my being you are
You are the font of hope in my every scribble, the reason for my being
You see past my blues, yonder my past times. My fountain of faith
and the sun rays have made your soul yellow. The goddess of my soul
16.11.12
You love me… right?
The humbling possibility that you love me more than you actually let on, that lies within your soul a home for me, that you worship every fragment of my soul in the temple of my being, that you love me so much it terrifies you beyond ashes level and that nostalgias of me successfully manage to keep you from slumber thinking about all the honey sweet mellow things you want to whisper to me when I wake from yet another nightmare, is what carries me through the rocky bumps on the road.
The probability that you fear losing me as much as I fear losing myself in the fogs of the earth makes me love you more than I care to admit, even to my little ever wavering heart.
The likelihood that you wear my love around your neck for the world and the hopeful other hers to see, is what defines how alive I will be the next day.
The life threatening possibility that I'm just fooling myself and that you'd merrily cherry-pick a life free of me, free of us and the house we built, leaving lifeless on the ground the portraits of our imaginary sons and daughters, please do keep it to yourself for my own sanity
But, but, but you do love me right?
Love & everything in between
I didn't just fall in love with your soul that effortlessly carries me through the shadows of life and lays me comfortably on the knowledge that you'll almost or rather possibly never leave me
I also fell in love with everything in between
Like how you dance for me in between those unscented sheets that haunt me every time you are away.
Like how your hands look like when you grab the pillows as I let you enter paradise.
Like how you conveniently forget to flush the toilet or collect the mess you left on the floor just to piss me off, conveniently ... for you.
Like how you sincerely always forget to close your mouth when you yawn and manage to irritate me to passing out levels.
Like how you burp and see no reason to apologize, my little pig.
Like how you somehow always forget to close the door to the loo when you take a release.
Like how you bang the car door when you are upset thinking I will forget you didn't apologize.
I fell in love with all the pieces that make you what you really are behind closed doors where only I can see you.
15.11.12
To the love of my soul
Your skin placed on that mahogany bedstead
as you submitted to me the everlasting lessons from your lower lips
You let drip the knowledge from your life encounters unto the crown of my head
Closed shut the books you've read
Almost letting me in on all that consumes you when the lights go off
You shower me with unbroken devotion, honouring my deepest needs
But I, though content I, I yearn for the fragments of your soul you flawlessly hide
I am certain they are the reason I fell in the fountain of your bosom
She wasn't really the prettiest of all
nor did she turn anyone's head
there was no sound of thrilled whistles thrown at her when she walked past the village rebels
Even the attention of delinquents she’d bashfully accept
But not a soul ever saw past her knee length skirts and concealed bosom
but at the core of it all, at the end of her displeasure with how the world perceived her,
she knew her lover thought she was everything she'd always seen and craved for in the world
and that was just enough to keep the smile on her ever wandering eyes
14.11.12
"I am afraid of getting older… I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’"
Sylvia Plath, (written in 1949)
The long awaited Friday came and clouded us with promises
of the glitz and glamour the night might offer us
Only to find my neighbour's daughter dangling from the roof the following morning
Ropes don't make great jewellery at all
And new days are not always the start of something new
The blood stains in her pricy underwear still haunt her mother
13.11.12
Like Father Like Son
Their fathers and sons hesitated not to snatch the womanhood from the sacred hands of their daughters
Yet none of them is brave enough to tell the tale of that bitter night that came with every darkness
Another meal on the table for them they were not ready to lose
Silent cries from the other room they chose to ignore
But sadly those nights are renewed with every dawn
The pillows serve as an escape to confessions they only make to themselves
For they will never look at the faces of their daughters without seeing the hands of their sons and fathers covering their developing bosoms
©GayKindaLove 2012-11-13
All I have ever wanted,
paying no mind to all my flaws,
was to be one of the poems in your poetry book
All I have ever cared to be
forget my incessant complaints,
was to be even if it's just a line in your infamous rhymes
All you ever were, ever will be,
is the ink in my every pen,
flawed as you are
12.11.12
5.11.12
Love, Poetry and Fingerprints
She was a fountain of sin
Turned the heads of the village kings
Like how the bees lusted over nectar
But her soul mate found comfort in other men
Like how the bees lusted over nectar
But her soul mate found comfort in other men
All the priests prayed for a moment with her,
The rebirth of a fallen seraph in whose bosom they minded
not to fall
As they drooled from the tiny hole to the confession
booth
where she sat every Sunday dawn drenched in regrets
As she made known the sins of yester night
An outburst of tales that haunt her at sleep
Little mind did they offer to her pleas
As she implored the heavens to save her
Rather they had ample time to unclothe her of all the
fabrics that covered what remained of her skin
Up and down they travelled the cracks of her body,
Some were on a pursuit to see her come undone
Up and down they travelled the cracks of her body,
Some were on a pursuit to see her come undone
While only one was on quest to save her broken soul
They pledged to adulate her commands
like how the stars worshiped the moon
but she needed only one man to leave his fingerprints on her shattering skin
like how the stars worshiped the moon
but she needed only one man to leave his fingerprints on her shattering skin
Even the sincere one could not take the place of the love of her life
though she knew he was out of her reach
he lived beyond what she ever could be able to offer
They all came clothed in falsity
Uttering promises of eternity
Promising to mend her shattered glass of faith
Promising her serene nights
Like how the sun obliged to the authority of the darkness at nightfall
But she needed one man to serenade her ache with rhymes of poetry
What tragedy it was that the love of her life found slumber in Adam's bosom
Promising to mend her shattered glass of faith
Promising her serene nights
Like how the sun obliged to the authority of the darkness at nightfall
But she needed one man to serenade her ache with rhymes of poetry
What tragedy it was that the love of her life found slumber in Adam's bosom
29.10.12
26.10.12
25.10.12
My Neighbours' Daughter
She was a beautiful woman
Her voice must have been that of Mary
Her stride commanded sinners to righteousness
She was her Mother’s spawn
the reason for every man's fall
had every hand cling to her lustrous temptations
the reason for every man's fall
had every hand cling to her lustrous temptations
A goddess of wickedness
She carried the sins of men in her bosom, the well of tragedy
Around her neck she wore the bruises offered to her by
the father who stole her womanhood every Sunday night
Soaking wet with compliments from men who left their
wives uncelebrated
Intoxicating foul-mouthed men by the scent between her
thighs
She clutched the taste of heaven at the tip of her tongue
As she worshipped the coins in their pockets
More so, when they clumsily read from her parted lips
Scarring her skin with their inharmonious grins and groans
Her intelligence insulted by their atrocious chitchats
She clothed herself with more lies than the fabrics
which were no more than 3 even on the coldest of nights
She adorned her speech with more fairy tales than the
reality
she shoved behind her closet every winter night
As she tirelessly climbed the paradigms of her enthusiasts’
bliss
Her lovers called her art
Silently she wept for help, implored for redemption, the
more she let escape what they confused for delight
As she hurried to a pretentious climax
The more she screamed I am coming, her mind flew to
places only she created
Where she pined for her lover who never made it out of
her imagination
Her fragment of paradise never made it home after the
fires of that sombre night
She cried to the heavens seeking answers to questions she
never dared to ask
Until that day of audacity where she’d make known to the
messiah her pleas
A haven of broken dreams she knew she’d remain
©GayKindaLove 2012-10-25
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