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Best Poems Written by Funeka Matwasa

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Words Kill

Ripples some call years I counted
Pain's nipples time sucked 
feeding years Silence shouted
For whispers to die ,my ears married to sound
Pain didn't stop  ,the rain of tears
The laughter of your peers
The thread of thoughts wiring my memory

Naked in front of my mirror 
Perfect missing only I see is my shapeless figure
Nude my esteem staggering reaching for a pillar
To hold onto to ,to survive the storm
Showers of your words that left me torn

Anti clockwise from the origin 
To a negative mind state, I found a region
A pelvis of your wicked reasons
Down my  eyes followed by my sleepy breasts
Trying to hide lines time has left on my thighs

You thought I was a mine
And you the right one
To crush me and draw the line
dig holes of doubt never asking if I'm fine 
Your words killed my smile
Now only I see is my shapeless figure
And love nothing but a lie

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If Walls Could Speak

If walls could talk
And talk could walk
Interesting stories, a grave yard of worries
Out film it would run.
Paralyzed voice of reason 
Could wander but still remain

Stories of shame where timing 
And its niece time are blamed
Visions, conclusions and reasoning far aimed
A journey to our first meeting
To when you left without us meeting
Oh! If walls could talk
I promise you'd hear stories

Clear description of this evening 
Just when I was looking @ the mirror
Day light passing night comin' nearer 
My reflection like a perfect statue 
Made it difficult to ignore the queue
Of questions, queries & quarters of incomplete plans
If walls could speak 
You'd know my secrets
And one being I miss us.

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Blame Me

Can I at least have this chance 
To speak on behalf On my heart 's treasure chest
About the quest of emotions runnin querying the fairness of life where secrets are not to be kept
Can I have this moment to assassin my pride for your enjoyment
Clear your conscious wipe all your prints and hide your involvement 
Can I?

Go on look for lies where there is none
Tender your time into believing the unfinished is done
Hate me, blame me, ignore me it is fine
Anything is better for my dieting happiness
That bothers me not ..as I'm dying thousand deaths everyday 
The floor,walls and the roof shout yesterdays memories now substituted by emptiness


Oh! I hate this new normal time has forced me to love
I am the virus that infected your existence, killing your dreams
I am the fool that allowed darkness to still her sanity so it seems
I am the hailstone that dented your solid future 
Im sure to you i'm many things disgusting 
Hate me, blame, ignore me it is fine

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When My Head Defeats My Heart

My lungs like a failing engine
Hug my ribs tingling the need to breathe
Your arms with mine I imagine
Like a train on its trail my body cant stop trembling

Thoughts of you leer back
Forcing reality to puzzle my reasoning
Eloquent silence injects life to my heart
Feeding the obese fear of letting go my sight

Alone with naked words 
Silence crying skiing on threads of icy memories
Weaving a pond for my eyes to bath on
When to search the horizon, our love my ozone

Reasons for my doubts I find
Even the base of my worries
cages of my heart soon to be your prison
A nest where lust and love reside

Like a saint lost between walls of perfect
My bleak present sold per fact
Trapped between your voice and lips
Hanged by the dusty air purified by your presence

Maybe its the way your voice sounds
Or the way my heart pounds when close to yours
Maybe its the thought of your lips on mime
That paralyze me when I have to tell you I love you

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This Worries Me

You don't know your smile makes my heart run a mile
When you look at me the past runs like the river Nile
You don't know that your voice ,your eyes and your touch make me envy the Saudi  wind and sun
They get to touch your skin everyday
the wind carries your voice to wherever it goes
And the sun glares at your eyes like it's showing off 

If Time had the reverse gear 
I would go back to when I didn't know you and all was clear
Back to when ma body missed yours not
To a day i knew not, the pleasure of tasting your unuttered words
I would go back to a day i didn't know the pain of missing you


I didn't want to care but now I do
Your existence now at my heart it stares
My heart is spreading the rumor
That im falling for you, i don't want to believe it
And I don't  want you to know


I don't like the way ma heart gives in to this foreign feeling 
This all worries me
how incomplete ma days feel when in ma ears your voice visits not
It worries me how I miss you
it drags me to depression the fact that I like you even more as days go by
I don't like it a bit that you make me happy, it scares me.

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Please Come

Please come 
I promise I’ll open them wider 
The doors I mean 
I’ll spread the word to my legs
So I sit still and wait on you to come 

I’ll hug you tighter 
I will not scream but my breath will be so loud
Like items you lost and found 
I’ll grab on you tighter 

My heartbeat will give yours clues  and signals you to enter 
I promise that is my answer 
Until you come , until you come to your senses 
I’ll hold you captive
Soft or harder 

Permission I grant you
Do as you please 
Without letting me pledge my sanity 
I promise wet kisses 
Please let it be now before my words  
Lose their warranty 

I promise to handle you with care 
I know you not entirely mine
Trust with that I’m fine 
Please come

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Your Absence

While I wait allow me to wander
Even without your consent I’ll push the doors wider
Lend me your hands to brew
This disaster cider 
So later we don’t blame each other 
When the  outcome is bitter 

I promise not to be fair  
When I stroke regrets hair 
So you feel good for not being there 
I promise to be so soft like fur
When I take my strides 
It’s gonna be a memory only with my heart I’ll share 

They say we should take the good with the bad
Now I’ll take being your bed spread 
My fault it is as the air was speaking 
Nothing, my ears heard

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I Love You

It’s been just week 
Already reasoning has a leak
Underneath this smile my defenses are getting weak
Should I pour caution down the sink 
And allow our hearts to speak?

Truth  be told I’m no adrenaline junky 
But I’m ready from these walls to jump and throw away the key 

To dive into the unknown 
Just knowing you got me
And in-turn from the same hymn book we sing 
Am I so naive to admit our hearts beat at the same wavelength?
The frequencies and all the technicalities are no longer 
A problem to worry  ourselves about ?
 
I know it’s been just a week 
But in  true honesty it’s been my best 
Am I too gullible to wish for more weeks like this 
Am I ?

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Waiting For Answers

I’ve been longing for an answer
Digging deep ,
 my attempts to get this cover, just an answer!
My pillows know my prayers 

This is the morning after
Silence had to suffer 
Now Hearing silence break never have I thought would be tougher 
My heart is racing 
My mind is hosting numbers
Even the smallest fraction scares me

How I now prefer the silence  
The percentages and probabilities  are shaking my core
For some reason Her embrace was comforting  and not foreign 
Even though suffocating 
I’ve gotten used to hearing nothing 
And seeing less than what is 
Damn! 
Now I’m scared and so unprepared 
I wish the universe cared 
To listen to the voice of my thoughts 
And whatever the choice 
Advantage at my door be waiting

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Desire Hanging

I left it hanging 
Confusion too as a rope bragging
I left forward behind blank
Going forward meant going back
Uncertainty refused to slack 

Only thoughts willingly took the trip
And the dock  where my voice of reason was anchored lost the ship
Misconceptions tied to reality buried so deep 
oiling the road to nowhere agreeed to silently sip 
To sip on confusion failing to take a grip 
 The layer no one can unzip

Or rip open to uncover the sealing without attaching feelings 
then and now united and willing 
Beaten and guilty but still winning 
memories refusing  to utter the vows
Leaving the circumference of my being spinning 
Who can promise their forever 
A blouse to cover this tired smile