Girlfriend Mum Poems

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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It's the same truth in the dark,
willows, wallows and parks...

Determining for our destiny those wild cracks in the fading parts...

Yes we know time but also...

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"Stay alive for my sake!"
I need you to try
and understand together,
why plates are crashing.
And hair is being pulled
out in clumps.

"Stay alive for my sake!"
From Mum...

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Maybe I should name this: the knife, or traditions traditions, or the pain of being an African girl. Or a funnier title; we laughed until...

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Let me love you
When my mum is unaware,
When she trust my lust,
And my old man never expected.

Let me love you 
When I open and close...

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5 days later
They finally got you here
A few yards away, a nursery
Opens to find your grandchild smiling at the door

I walk away with kisses from...

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...a true story


Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...

standing apart, the other houses still intact 
with painted jalousies and window curtains. 
She must...

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...a true story


Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...

standing apart, the other houses still intact 
with painted jalousies and window curtains. 
She must...

Read More