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Best Poems Written by Raymond Letsitsa

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Voices From a Foreign Land

Once upon a life time
When the flowing streams were
Caged behind the backs of steep mountains
Where brothers and sisters perished
Because of rebellion to slavery
There was heard from a distance
a sound so profound it released
Certain demons through it's melody

Dedicating humble spirits to servitude in an island of solitary men
Breathing malice through it's nostrils, fumbling with unwritten lyrics of nostalgia, sickening to the ear like the bowel symphonies of hungry children in Somalia
A mysteriously different kind of malaria

When phantoms perverted the justice and order of fair governance
And nurtured disgust in the hands of foreign slave drivers,
Diviners, digging up lost silverstones and confusing ravenous lightning rods in the heavy hand of Zeus
Pointing towards the skies in search of some hidden knowledge among the stars
A seemingly serious kind of pain torturing the humble rhythm, leaving it in scars.

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Let Me Write

And let me have all the freedom I need
Let me write my scarred frustrations 
on this paper and make the pen bleed
Time wounds all heels and sowing this literary crop unreaps the mighty seed

I hung on to similes and metaphors like they were dear life
My bosom vibrates to the feel of pad in hand as I prepare to fracture the lead
I resurrect art out the closed doors of dribbling sadistic writers

I craft my ability on my weary body like a tatoo artist
My eyes have been vexed by a violent history of unfruitful youth
Washed my hands in a basin of history wrought by a dying people
A descendant of the gods that were turned into slaves and brainwashed by a culture of a cursed civilisation
A master architect and brother to the sphinx that I worshiped
Till all went sour grapes and we were all shipped to a foreign land
Of men who forced us to submission with whips that broke the bone and tore the flesh
Let me write all the things that I know about brother Jesus
Let me tell you the truth about how your governments create these diseases
To control the population of a deceived people
We are the free minority with the only power to cast away evil 
We are not living in equality
And we confess a freedom that we don't really  possess
The masters of the slave trade can curse a clean hand that's ready to bless
When the pen is in our bound hands,
these chains can break,
and we can unlearn ourselves of the ills that are still done to our people.
Selah.

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Verse

Great mass compassionate/
Oblique rhymes in a dope verse
Will still leave you obstinate /
Compose verse in prose style and hostile intelligence /
It don't obviously mean you're an poet because you may have suffered negligence /
I featured a lightning strike in this tempest and warfare/
Lyrical brutality practiced on sheep dressed in wolf skin,  that's so rare/

And if by any chance you got to advance
In modern lyrical styles and patterns of rhyme
In the obscured images of mankind
Seeing thineself through the eye of thy foe
And truly came to hate what you've become
Standing tall won't help you from the fall of 
Thy confidence in thineself and what you can
Deliver to the people in the form of prose

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Poetry Speaks

Soothingly smooth and eternal
The thrill of the lyre so majestic
An impulse so divine
Sheltered securely in scriptures
Of musings enchanted

A melodramatic rhythm
Beating like African drums
Used for summoning ancestral spirits
Clashing like the Titans
 of ancient Greece
The mixture of guitar strings
And harp melodies so glorious

Thus are all mankind enthused
Wrapped in torn garments of poverty
The pattern of their skilled talents
Heard like sermons of good tidings
Preached through the orchestration
Of bands that dance
As the character of music 
Keeps breathing through rhymes eternally.

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I Don'T Wanna Lie

don't wanna lie to you
Let me sweep you off the floor
Don't wanna lie to you
I'm that shy ninja from next door
I won't lie to you
Missing you makes me love you much more
This ain't a lie to you
My love for you is really raw
Don't wanna lie to you
Let me, Let me, Let me just...

Pick up the pieces-
Of whatever it is that's broken in your life
Let me make you my divine eternity and my holy wife
I've been missing you embrace for a time, and half the time my mind has been splitting in two
I visited the heavens to look for my angel and couldn't find her.

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My Soul

My Sou
Console me
Teach me the secret to happiness
In the midst of all this gloom
And if my light quickly flickers out and dies
Having no more the spark of joyful youth and peace
Teach me how to laugh
At the mystery of being human
In this world of gnashing teeth and shattered dreams

My conscience 
Please guide me
Let me know when to react with pain
To these bruises that are inflicted unto my soul
Let me know the times of harvest
And those sure times of hunger
Let me know the difference between friend and foe
Let my discernment draw intelligently from
The many fountains of life.

My spirit
Lead me to glory,
Through these walls of prejudice
Easily pass me like a high grade blunt
Write your testament inside my palms
So that when I lift my arms
Your light could shine brighter 
And my witness could embrace the heavens
In splendid grace and sweet melancholy 
Found in melody so eternal 
It lives through poetry
Until the ends of time.