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How can you be so far?

When I tear inside

When all I want is you close

Right by my curve and my side

Picket my fence P, pickle my heart

Iron out the strain

Don’t leave me,

Hung out in disdain.

From here to there where you send sunshines

On ray boats piercing my heart stupid

With your wickedly missiled smiles

Elusively lucid in splendor

Eish, I am a moron in tongues

When you lash me with your happy voice

Catch my Pink Faya P

Dreadlocked in my deadlock around the block

I acted nutty; professing scintillated scents of your soul

Down Jeppe I hopped happily towards Bree Street, P.

Past Chicken Licken, towards Mandela’s Bridge

My thoughts of you never ever went astray like,

Bob Marley’s bright and sunny day

Potbelly smiles

GuavaJelly hides

Pineapple asides

Stolen rub-a-dubs

Catch my fire

Red rants

Catch your fire in mine

Sweet Pink bongo

Dread culture

P.

Catch my fire

Four better days P.

He wonders in his haze

Sauntering around maize fields

He erects everyday in her gaze

Walled in and porous he flirts with P

Through a Moria of peep holes

Whispering notes sent silently in between canals

Floating to her hiding spot on her island under the blue gum tree

Sometimes those messages on spring’s petals are direct as metal and free

‘In sickness and memory we will never be apart babes,

As we decipher the alphabets that string the strata in our hearts together’

He seems to say each day with different words as he slaves and prays

For better days

When it rained, P.

When it rained all my inner eyes could reach

Is you and i by the seaside

My pride was in sync with the symphony

Of the rain drops

playing with the surfaces

outside my warm cocoon

and my joy

cuddled my small coughs

as my tv flickered with noise

poised with nostalgia

i picked up the phone,

and dialed your o eight two

all starry eyed i ask

Oh my heart answer the phone;

Please P.

P.

P, I wanted your rose to kiss me softly

Right here where I clearly see,

My Sweetest Soweto memory

My three million lullabies betwixt goodbyes

Leave me wondering beyond yonder

Whether I am just playing with prayer

Or in a good way you’re just slaying me textually

Slicing my brevity away

P, My taboo, and my déjà vu

Downtown you are my brownsugar

on the eastside my chocolate cake

on the west my ice cream dream

and everywhere else my eyes see no one else but you

And you know I don’t want it to sound like that

Not in a bad way atleast, but you keep me mellow and sane

To Masego

on behalf of Tshego

Remember friend how we listened to music

Stars shining in our eyes in our nighties at our pj parties

Dreaming with our knights riding off into the sunset

You know, it’s been a while since I've seen you shine in your smile

Remember that very first time he said hello, and

You blushed

All flushed, like that song said, with fever

The diva in you sang songs of Shiva

You spoke in tongues intertwined, and

Rewrote Genesis anew

Redemption found you

In the streams of your bloodstream

Pumping to the beat of the Song of Solomon

Friend, as you and yours rewrite life anew, and

Show us how…

I see you now and you must know that,

It’s been a while since I've seen you shine in your smile.

Eish P, my pleasent fluorescent intense Incense

You know, today i wanted to write you this poem
Full of dissapointment but i could not put the verbs together
I wanted to say to you i am jealous but…
Could not put the two’s and their adverbs together
I heard the despair; i saw it from your words
I cried a wrenching cry and …
in that moment i became the wretched of the earth
and, then i heard you, i smiled and ...
googled poems i could send to you incessantly

i like you still; neccesarily.

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