Kgotalang Legoete Poet Free verse

Fathers Death

Father's Death  

 

Healing is such a process Life is a long journey  
Living with pain is chronic  
Chronic pain makes one sleepless  
My hero is gone who should I turn to? 

 

Days went by, thinking deeply  
Chronic pain has been part of my life for a decade  
Time doesn’t heal anything it teaches something else 
Living with pain like other chronic health conditions  
My hero is gone who should I turn to? 

 
His funeral came yet I didn’t show up  
I hope to do what's right in the season of winter 
My heart is broken like a broken glass you won’t be able to fix it  
My eyes are red like am developing eye disease  
My weight is slowing punching down like a wheel  having a slow punch  
My hero is gone who should I turn to? 

I may be strong on the outside, inside am weak 
Father you left to soon, I can’t bare this pain
Come back because am weak, am afraid to show my mother 
If she finds am weak, she will be heart broken 
That will also break my heart, am caught up 
My hero is gone who should I turn to?




 

By kgotalang legoete  

14June 2021  

22:30

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Kgotalang Legoete July 8, 2022 at 1:39 AM Losing someone close to you Really hurts, the people that you have and that you know you love wholeheartedly show them and make sure to spend time with them. We never realize what we have until its taken away from us.