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!!!
Copyright © Yolanda Nyembezi | Year Posted 2014
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