24 Jul

Drink : Daniel

you manage to do enough. you always know how to make me swallow my words in one go. you're the only thing I've ever found comfort in. if my liver were to ever betray me, I pray that it only remembers the sensation of you filling it. I'm appreciative of how my hand falls...
24 Jul

Kiss

This is a poem about kisses. The kiss from a mother to a child as she sends him off to school for the first time. She is nervous but smiles a calming smile that sends him out into the world without a doubt in his mind that he can conquer the universe knowing she...
22 Jul

The Darkness – Mr. Write

The Darkness I won’t lie, I want to die sometimes. Picture volcanic swimming pools as I take a dive Something quick… I don’t desire pain, that’s the exact type of strain that led me to this place This painful palace that I wish could collapse on me. Tears that never fall somehow still end...
22 Jul

Love Note

To My Lighthouse I always had the wall up and if anybody tried to see beyond the facade – I’d literally shut down and try to distance myself from them. you asked about my ‘absent’ father and never was I uncomfortable to share with you my resentment towards him. it was somewhat a forbidden...
22 Jul

As I Lay Beside You

Summer’s eve Our bodiemolten to climate coolness by heat. My skin, Bombarded by the collisions of excited particles in adherence to yours. Overwhelmed by the presence of your erected hair follicles. Your head fallen, in the crook of my neck lain on my chest Close to my heart beat; where you should be. With...
17 Jul

Secrets – Part three

Click to read Part II “Everyone, please step away from the patient! Sir, I’ll need you to step aside.” “No! That’s my daughter!” “Yoh yoh yoh! Johnny, DO something! Ngwanaka hleng! Lerato, can you hear me? Ke Mama!” “Sir! We want to help your daughter but I’ll need you to step aside. What’s her...