Mbalenhle
Persistently in my heart
is where you will be.
Nobody else will enter
because you have the only key.
Without you
I am not complete
because you are
my heart and soul.
I promise to be your power
whenever you fall weak
I promise to be your voice
when you can't find the words.
You brought me sunlight
when I only saw rain.
You brought me happiness
when I only felt soreness.
You're the smile on my face,
the sparkle in my eye.
the warmness inside my heart,
and the fullness in my life.
You are my coverlet
that keeps me warm.
You are my canopy
that shields the hurricane.
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Dissapointment
Disappointed
All my life broke up, like some great river's ice at touch of spring.
The world lay stretched before me like the open palm of my hand.
Alone, like a storm-tossed wreck, on this night of the glad New Year.
An anxiety hung like a dark impenetrable cloud on me.
An envious wind crept by like an unwelcome thought.
Dissatisfaction had settled on my mind like a shadow
My thoughts are buzzing like a swarm of bees
And my mind is like a lonely wild.
Life stretched before me alluring
And various as the open road.
Loneliness struck me like a blow as
I sit there motionless as a plumb line.
My thoughts ran leaping through
The green ways of my mind like fawns at play,
And every nerve in my body seemed like
A strained harp-string ready to snap at a touch.
My memory and emotion surged in my... |
Africa
The land of Baobab and Acacia sassa trees
The proud land of our forefathers.
The home of the fastest animal on earth - Cheetah
The oldest inhabited territory on Earth,
Who handed treasure of wisdom down to us
The most-populous landmass.
The place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade.
The land of the the most abundant antelope, the impala
The land of sunshine and bird songs
Cut almost equally in two by the Equator
It straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas
Hosts a large diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages
Africa's has landscapes of many changes.
With beaches, rain forests, islands and dunes,
its climate keeps you guessing all afternoon
Contains an enormous wealth of mineral resource and
largest numbers of megafauna’s species
From her Warthog to her Giraffe,
from h... |
Windhoek,2000
Nabucodonosor! thou shouldst be living at this epoch:
Namibia hath desire of thee: she is a quagmire
Of quiet rainwaters: slab, blade, and cage,
Inglenook, the courageous fortune of manor and retreat,
Have sacrificed their primeval culture talent.
But those who came before us will teach us.
They will teach us from the wisdom of former generations.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
But looking back we do not find what we left behind.
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by
ntil all our emphasis befits
The creatures we used to be,
The gaffes we made in our lifetime.
Oh, if only we could see
What we are now that we were then?
May memory restore again and again
The tiniest tint of the minutest era:
Pa... |
My First Love
My first love was alluring yet painful,
Every time I go back to those reminiscences,
my heart is crying like a tired child for one fond look,
and I feel like I could have done so much better.
It was a Saturday when I first saw her,
her skin was like honey – sweet and fragrant,
made my heart skip a beat
for I had never seen anything so breathtaking.
Her skin was a russet color
and Her hair was midnight-black,
flowed over her shoulders..
That first moment when we saw each other
is inscribed in my cranium.
I can still hear my heart throbbing noisily in my chest,
as her eyes landed on me in my indlu.
Her eyes were a light hazel,
they were lovely eyes,
full of life,
and capable of expressing love.
When you are around happines... |
Haunted House
Fragments of plaster lie damp over a long untrodden floor,
their only purpose to soak in the seasonal rain.
Cold water seeps through window frames,
rotten and blistered,
to nurse the mildew and rise up wallpapers that peel.
The cupboards are a time-warp of long forgotten brands
that barely live on even in the memories of the elderly.
All around are the artifacts of a life lived and hastily abandoned,
mattresses, dolls, sepia photographs...
At midnight,
There seemed to be a heavy atmosphere hanging around me.
The darkness was oppressive,
and there was a strange soft whining noise coming from upstairs.
I heard a loud thump upstairs.
Then it sounded like someone moaning
Soon there was clatter all about—dull thuds,
a few bangs, followed by the sound of someone walking around on the second floor.
I remained frozen in my bed... |
Samuel Daniel Shafiishuna Nujoma
the black struggle in Namibia,
a brave anti-colonial freedom fighter.
Who touched the hearts,
and minds of millions across Africa
and the world with his powerful objectives.
Led his country into peace,
national reconciliation and economic rise.
Establishing harmony among the
conflicting religions and political elements.
His footprints are still blueprint for us to follow.
A legend, warrior and symbol of freedom,
cherished the ideal of a democratic
and free society in which all persons live together
in harmony and with equal opportunities.
He lived to give us
a better platform to speak
about our oppression
as well as our victories.
Who resistance against racism,
helped Namibians to realise their dream.
willing to fight against injust... |
The Life Without You
The life without you
is like a tree without flowers,
the moon without the stars,
a kiss without lips,
long wandering love,
the weary heart may faint for rest,
and a body without soul...
The life without you
is like a drifting foam of a restless sea
when the waves show their teeth
in the flying breeze,
and wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
The life without you
is like village curs that bark when their fellows do,
a shadow of a great hill,
that reaches far out over the plain,
and the setting of a tropical sun.
The life without you
is like a sea-worm,
that perforates the shell of the mussel,
which straightway closes the wound with a pearl,
and rainbow, thou didst fade.
The life without you
Is lik... |
Life is a journey
Life is a journey filled with teachings,
Adversities, sorrows, ecstasies, festivities
and distinctive moments
that will ultimately lead us to our terminus,
our persistence in life.
The boulevard will not always be straight;
in fact, throughout our voyages,
we will meet many encounters.
Some of these encounters will
quiz our nerves, powers, weaknesses, and reliance.
Along the way,
we may blunder upon hindrances
that will come between the footpaths
that we are ordained to take.
In order to trail the veracious tracks,
we must overawed these complications.
Occasionally these problems
are really consecrations in camouflage,
only we don't recognize that at the time.
Along our journey
we will be challenged with many circumstances,... |
A Lovely Dream
I first met her on a holiday at Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve.
Love strikes me like lightning when I saw her,
so powerful and intense it can’t be denied.
It turns me inside out,
and there was no going back from it.
Once the thunderbolt hits, my life irrevocably changed.
With a carved stem-thin figure,
And sparkly appearance.
Her pencil-thin eyebrows,
eased down gently to her velvety,
Eyelashes.
Her beauty is the celebrity's cute wind-swept
twisting through
the late evening's darkening heavens.
Her smile shines stunningly
like the sun rising over the skyline,
her luminous, heavenly-white teeth flashed
as she pawed at me with her flick star nails.
Her gorgeousness is the stars
that is now quivering into view
as their star shine ends its life journey
&... |
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