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Best Poems Written by Thandokazi Bangani

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Free Education

In countries such as Germany,Norway and Sweden there is free education,not only for students of that countries nationality but also for international students as well,is their quality of education any lower then the average standard no it is not but you still see people every other day saying that this fees must fall movement is absurd when in actual fact it isn't,the South African government needs to learn how to prioritize when it comes to funding and they need to learn that in order for us to be successful education needs to become a priority instead of private jets,do not think that just because you are studying with NSFAS you are free because you actually arent ,one day they will ask for their money back so what is NSFAS? Its not free education? All it is is a debt that people incur before they even start earning any money,maybe not today,tomorrow or even next year the #feesmustfall movement will be understood by the government but one day they will,and one day if not even today they need to realize that free education is a need in South Africa because for many people it is the only opportunity they have to escape poverty ,even with that,there would be a drastic decrease of people relying on government grants to build them houses as well as to feed their families, #feesmustfall great countries have done it,so can we

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Black and Proud

Why is it that we as black (we being the black people who do it) have this sad tendency of thinking that white is the ultimate thing? What do I mean?

She's so pretty,ungathi ngumlungu?
She thinks she's better then everyone,and acts like a white person?
Look at the way she speaks English( normally because the person speaks fluent english) she thinks she's white?!
Did you hear what she said? She said she likes rock music (she must think she's white)
Her hair is so long and silky ,she must have European blood( as if a black person can't have beautiful hair)

We oppress ourselves by thinking that "white" is the race to aspire to be,when we actually really know nothing about the white community because we barely even know any white person (no offence to my "white" friends??) but really,maybe it's time we take the good things that with being "black" and make them a part of who we are as well.

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What Some Woman Want

We all have different ideas about the kind of life that we want to live,some of us are goal orientated,virtually making it impossible for us to be in a relationship with someone without ever feeling like we are wasting valuable time and we can never make time for the person we are dating.

And then sadly we become bad people,we become the black sheep's of society because reality is,we will probably never get married or have children(so what??) I don't want children nor do I want a husband,I have different agendas about how I want my life to be structured so please explain to me why I can't do this without having to explain my intentions to the world,after all they are mine,nobody else's so there's literally no need for anybody else to understand this.

This idea that woman cannot be strong without another person who is male is not true,we do not need a relationship to be strong,we rather need to be comfortable in our own skin and be infinite with that comfortability so that by any chance,if it happens and we hit the floor,the love that we have for ourselves will not allow for us to give up on these goals.

Society and marriage,who are you to measure my growth or anything else based on something that could end so easily,something indefinite like marriage,I am a success not because I am married but because I,in my being and capable of being by myself,growing myself,and reaching the goals that I want to reach.

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A Love Unthinkable

You see I felt a presence when you were sleeping next to me like you were guarded by some sort of angel that made me want to cry because my heart couldn't fathom how I a girl so empty and broken could be as lucky to be yours and have you as mine.

Finally it's begun to make sense why your name is in the bible,or even why you have a whole book in the bible infact,because you deserve a special place in my heart and that's something you'll always have and more.

We called it redamancy and we laughed at how we kept finding words to describe what we had,what we have,you know....something like serendipity my favourite word right next to your name.

As much as we keep finding these words to describe the love we share for each other deep down we both know that this love we have is unthought of and could never be defined

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Awaken

You have given me something that is even greater then the gift of life
You have given me a heart that is filled with love and knows no hate
You have poured out you soul to this great abyss of a human that I call myself
You have shown me that even with everything that happens I am still the one that has control over my own life

Are you not the best thing that's ever happened to me?
Are you not an angel that walks on this dried land I call a body?
Are you never tired of the walls that I break down only to build them up again?
Are you you not the reason that I am still able to open my eyes and to feel the kiss of the Sun?

Patiently I have waited for death to come take me
Unexpectedly you removed me from the shadows that were in my heart and set me free
Repeatedly you give me a joy that is beyond all other joys 
Eventually my time will come but you my love continue to be my entire life

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Interesting

Interesting how were told that whatever we spend the most time on is what we worship yet you never hear someone being accused of worshing charity?

Interesting how were constantly being told that black is beautiful and given beautiful peoms about being a black child yet the same people who tell us this wouldn't stop for a second to embrace their African hair and walk around without a weave on the streets?

Interesting how we are constantly being told that our circumstances don't define us yet every other day were being classified into different classes of wealth? 

Interesting how no matter how connected to her soul that girl walking past my street is nobody will think she is beautiful because she is not light enough,yet we're constantly being told that beauty is soul deep!

Interesting how smart work and not hard work pays off yet we're constatantly being told that you don't have to be smart in this world in order to make it you just need to be passionate about what you do?

Interesting how the same people who tell us to love our neighbours wouldn't think twice about aborting a child that they don't want?

Interesting how were constantly being told that true love waits yet girls in every town are constantly being pressured to get into bed with boys they not even sure love them because they are afraid to loose them?

Interesting how were all so afraid of not belonging that you'd even rather be classified as an outcast then to be classified as a nobody even though you are destined for something greater then that?

Written on 24 September 2016

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Memory

Just yesterday I seemed to someone that I now never knew
My life was a bag of roses now it is filled with thorns and the constant fear that God has forsaken me 

Is it that I showed no emotion at times or is that I showed too much emotion? Explain? 
Maybe not today but maybe tomorrow or the day after that I will realize that the innocence that my heart once had has gone with the wind 

Can it be that the person I remember myself to have been isn't the person I was and it was all in my head?
Could it be that with time innocence fades away and people become a reflection of more than what they see in the mirror.

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Chained

Release me from the chain's which you have wrapped around my life
Allow me to breathe once again and to feel what it  is like to own my own body 
Provide me with the hope that my soul will one day listen to the cries of my heart and forgive you
Emotionally I am broken because you touched me when you shouldn't have and didn't care that I didn't want you to but physically I walk around with a smile on my face as though I am happy to be alive.

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Praise Be

All the time the Lord is faithful,gives me strength when I am weak and proves to me all the time that he is worthy to be praised,what would I be without the goodness of my father in my life,how he has forgiven me every time I seem to let him down,his love never changes,his promise of eternal life still remains and forever and ever I shall be greatful for everything that he does in my life, the power of the cross in my life has worked wonders and has healed wounds that no science could ever heal,the Lord my God once again prevails in all hardships and pain he once again shows me that he indeed is worthy to be called the son of man,the Messiah,no trouble shall come to me unless it has got the permission of my father,I thank you Lord for your faith fullness and I thank you for your greatness and for your work in my life ,praise be to the son of man,praise be to God almighty

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How Sweet It Is

We met on the corner of *5th avenue* and I instantly knew that was it,
we were soulmates,set for life,
when our eyes met I could see the *milky way* through your soul,
it wasn't how you stared that got me wondering who in this beautiful universe you were,
but it was how your eyes felt like they were a pathway to your soul.
I knew a *good bar* down from the street from where we fist laid eyes on each other,
and I made a pact with my being that the next time we met I would walk across the *rocky road* of my fear of rejection and insecurities and I would ask you on a date,and that was exactly what I did.
whenever we kissed it felt like the entire *galaxy* was rooting for us,little did I know there's no happy endings in this world, not even for little *air heads* like us that were stupid enough to believe in love.
During our first argument it all came back to me, how I had fallen in and out of love many times before you and every single time I was on the firing end,so I decided that maybe it was time for us to *take five*,remember my love? how we were about to give up when *Mike and Ike* WALKED IN AND TOLD US THAT WE WERE DESTINED FOR EACH OTHER AND CALLING IT QUITS WAS NOT WHATS THE gods wanted for us? and how we had continued,although we knew that even they could not be *lifesavers* because we had both already been too far gone.But it didn't matter to us what is and was happening to us *now and later* all we knew was that we could save each other and make each other believe in love again.

How sweet it is, sponsor's,as sweet as we want it to,9 October 2018.