Born and bred under the African sun... My poems do not follow any rules of poetry,
Born and bred under the African sun... My poems do not follow any rules of poetry, but i like to consider myself a contemporary poet
#Contemporary
We scar like C-sections in diffic… As though it was the only natural… As though stitches were made to ru… To remind us that we are nothing m… We burn like we have the 'Highly…
find yourself in the chaos and soar... don’t let the madness around you cripple you
you with eyes like cosmic dust from exploded meteorites hauled ac… with a smile of a thousand galaxie… make my knees buckle against empty… when the electric touch of your fi…
Different kind of heartbreaks, sam… For death knows not its murderer a… It’s all the same in the end The sunken eyes and the drooping s… Like drying tear drops
If I promise to be your easel Baby would you paint the world? Would you leave traces like footpr… Of all the things we swore never t… So that we can always find our way…
If there is a chance Even the slightest of chances Even though as small as dust parti… Twirling in the light If I could wrap my fingers around…
Somewhere between my stumbling fee… And my dusty compass Somewhere between the sunbaked cro… And my shriveled map Somewhere between my faith and my…
Show me your scars, the site where… And I’ll show you my stretch mark… We both bear on our flesh evidence… Where the only skin that covers th… Grimaced beneath pressure and pain
Shortly after sunset When lovers the moon gaze, darknes… A celestial rose held in an eclips… Draped in blood as its orbit linge… Witches shriek, farmers wail and o…
Temperamental hearts colliding in… Split open like rift valleys on A… Bone marrow cut clean from rotten… Unable to feel fear or pain Leaving reason rested in pieces
Standing under grey skies Stinking open sore swamped by flie… Patience from within listening to… But you’ve been down that path You’ve felt desert winds and life’…
Why does your heartbeat sound like… In dark empty alleys every time I… I’m here listening as you breathe And I try to keep my breathing in… It feels like oxygen masks on high…
Is this how Patricia felt Standing on the sidelines Watching her man Love another woman? Watching what once was
There is a cold war in me Verbal insults between my heart an… Each will not let the other be For they both want to lead Torn between emotions and logic
every gaze into the night sky yiel… each glint a reflection of your dr… for every night and day you were b… so let those dreams continue to ta… as the universe reveals a spectrum…
THOUGH OUR LIVES ARE NOTHING MORE
i love the way you pretend like the darkness inside doesn’t s… like the bitterness you cradle doe…
She was already broken when you me… With cracked lips, shut eyes and t… Her diamond shaped heart lay like… Chest empty, head spinning She had staples all around her edg…
i will crawl into you soul, plunge into you like a force of na… i will haunt your daydreams like d… i will coil in your bones and fall… i will dance in the blueness of yo…
Are those tears I see in your eye… Are those band aids I see plaster… You hold back tears because he wou… Would never hear you when you scre… He shows no signs of perfection ev…
Facing different battles Dodging different arrows Yet the world couldn’t shield us From the aimed daggers of truth Victims of poisoned rose petals
I chain my thoughts like fire brea… but it does not stop me from thinking about you I cut my wrists and watch as blood… like waves on tired shores,
lead me to where our journeys reve… and the turmoils in us never speak… lead me to where footpaths are wor… and the stars shine bright like si… lead me to where the jungle gives…
Confused snowflakes hitting the gr… Lonely white skeletons locked out… Freezing out in the cold Deserted on polluted highways Wrapped in insane degrees