Yolanda Nyembezi Poet ABC

This Is Me

This is me!
23 August 1994
A new life stepped into the door
With no reason to mourn; the family was
in tears as I became

This is me..
Never was I told to leave 
up to your expectations or
even be the right address to your 
location or even be what you
might happen to think of me
that is not me...

But this! This is me..
I cry tears that fall
on the same ground that you 
walk on and step on...You neglect me
but still I remain me.

To you not satisfactory 
but to my parents I make 
them happy providing hope that
perhaps the songs I sing; songs
I compose and and with the poems I write
the future might actually be promising.

This is me...
Calm like a dry duck floating 
on water; going underneath and
coming out dry as the sun burns me...
You may dry the water off my feathers
but I will still remain me.

Mainly Yolanda Ntomb'zolile Nyembezi.
THAT IS ME!!!

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Patrick Nigros April 25, 2018 at 3:05 PM beautiful piece. i love it. Why do i sense a typical, radical, unapologetic Xhosa/Zulu

Yolanda Nyembezi June 3, 2014 at 4:47 AM Noted my kind lady... thank you for taking the time to read it.

Ayesha Karim June 2, 2014 at 9:16 PM This poem needs to be revised a little. There are some typos but the message within the poem seems quite clear.