STRANGE LOVER

Why did you come, into my heart, lover? 

Knowing the hurt and hate you bear inside

Pouncing into my life with smiles full of love

Pointing all the things that carry no meaning

You, sharing  the fruit of  bareness, in wet lies

Lover you are! Lover you'll be! Lover my only!

The moans that came before the night’s climax

As fake as the hair you put on, after you wax

I really needed you to be you, in all realness

All I heard was talk, spoken by your friends

Your acts were put on, to please those fangs

As you are a copy of everyone else, not self 

Why did you come into my home, lover? 

To rack and break all my hard work, built

Booze, cheating, burning inside badly felt 

Boasting about things that carry no meaning 

You, sharing  the fruit of  bareness, in wet lies

Lover you are! Lover you'll be! Lover my only!

This woman wears the smiles of a strange love

Nothing pains, than opening up to a false face 

Why did you come into my heart, lover? 

Knowing the hurt and hate you bear inside

It could have been easier roaming Hillbrow

Because I see all it’s streets on your brow

BREATHING

I need, pure ground to breathe

A space, where I can be whole again

To take in the freshness, that is air

Without a racist knee on my black neck

I hide behind my mask, not to gain

But in hope that the sun will rise again

Like a jackhammer, my lungs hammer

Something inside me, stammer

A tight engine, shortness of breath

As speechless as a broken Speaker

These lungs are a blade that sheathe

Corona wielding threateningly - a swindler

Taking away beloved ones from loved ones

 A perfect world , turned into imperfection

Like the racist knee that took George Floyd

A duel between precious life - sorrowful death

Yes, like that racist knee on the neck 

Breathing is a humanly hope and  reason - 

ALL LIVES DO MATTER

L. Sakazi Thwala