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Best Poems Written by Tichaona Ngatiane

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Revolution

I am no revolutionary
For mine is not an ideal
A noble statement
I ain’t gonna give a speech
No riling up crowds, riots
This ain’t no cause
No movement for you to join
All that it is 
A cry to the heavens

I am a man tired
Tired of all this
This pain, this agony
An agony so debilitating
This ain’t no call to arms
For a weakling that I am
I would be swatted like a fly
Nay. I ain’t no rabble-rouser
All that I am
A man in pain

I do not seek death
Martyrdom ain’t my thing
Only rest is on my mind
Respite from this life
This gloomy darkness
Rancid, unenticing
An opiate do I seek
A release, cathartic
Mine ain’t a war cry
A call to arms
All that it is
A plea for compassion

I am a man born
Bearing a burden, the future
Their hope for redemption
The herald
A dawn long awaited.
I am a man born to sufferance
Toiling, grafting
My destiny, lost in time
The guilt dragging me down
Futility, my staple diet
Yet I can’t be a Luther King
All that I am
A man weary

Voiceless we were, far too long
Enduring, hoping
Toiling to turn the tides
We been understanding, docile
Willing for a flicker, a spark
Patient, wishing
But now we tire
There is no life for the lambs
Only slaughter and darkness
Destiny is reinvented
A cold hard truth,
Silence is for fools
This ain’t idealism
All that it is
A grim realization

I am no revolutionary
Yet I need a revolution
A movement, a cause
I am no martyr
But one way or the other
Death comes to us all
This ain’t a war cry
Yet a multitude will rise
A cause taken up
In unison we will cry out
A desperate people
Crawling out of bondage
Light at the end of the tunnel
This ain’t an ideal
Debated ad-infinitum
All that it is
A Cry for freedom.

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Into Darkness

I ma come to your door and knock.
You gonna open the door and stare
I ma say nothing but smile
That big beautiful smile
That lights up ma eyes.
Then I ma jus gonna shock you
Sweep you into ma arms, tight
Drink of the sweet nectar of your mouth
One long breathless kiss
Fight it you may, I don't care
Then I ma put you down soft
Look into those exquisite eyes of yours
And whisper what I have always wanted to
That I have always loved you
That you light up my world
That you are everything I always wanted
My own Juliet
I ma turn and walk away.
Eyes glistening, knees weak
Ma heart yearning for more, for you
I ma walk and never give you a chance
To burst ma bubble, ruin ma moment
For I know you got someone
You love someone.
I ma etch that moment, engrave to my soul
As I walk into the darkness.

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Sleep What Sleep


The rooster crows
Heralding a new dawn
Yet sleep is beyond me
That basic human need has deserted me
Leaving me in a whirlwind of thoughts
Contemplating, scheming
For what else can I do?
Reminiscing, remembering
What else is there for me?
Musing, pondering
How else can I survive?
When all that I ever wanted,
All that I ever dreamt of
Vaporized into a noxious smoke
When all that ever contented me
Is gone in a puff of smoke
When mine nights are restless
And the nightmares keep me up
Where then can I get more dreams?
How then can I ever hope?
When I am this close to my demise
When mine existence is all but useless
How can I ever sleep?
Without the hope of ever
Holding her in my arms
How can I ever dream?
When the anticipation has grown cold
And my future looks bleak.
Why then should I sleep?
When the dreams turn to nightmares
How can I ever sleep?
Without the hope of ever seeing her smile again
Without her,
Who sang me lullabies with that soporific voice
Can I ever sleep?
Without the hope of dreaming of her
Tell me,
What is love really?
Memories?
Recriminations and regrets?
Pain? That agonizing pain?
Would that I had known,
Would I ever have loved?
Would I ever have dreamt?
Would I ever have hoped?
Mine pneuma is vexed
The questions never end
The answers are never found
And sleep is still beyond me
My eyes in the darkness,
Open to a beautiful vision
A vision of my persecutor
She whose heart I broke,
She whose pain I authored
The girl who I love so much
She whose memory gives me no respite
She whose departure has stolen my sleep,
The only one who can exorcize my ghosts
And bring back sanity to my heart
Guess I have to live with the pain
Till eternity and beyond!
Guess I have to cohabit with my memories
Till the very end of time
Guess I have to live with the hallucinations
Till she finds it in her heart to forgive me
And to love me as I always will
Guess I have to put up with the sleeplessness
Till the emotion subsides
IF IT EVER WILL!
Then I will sleep!

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Love What Cruelty

I fell in love
With a creature so beautiful
Exquisite and outta my reach
Yet my stupid heart believed
Thought love conquered all
Foolishness, my downfall

Why is love this cruel
teasing drawing you in
Promising heaven on earth
You fall in and hard
A heart colonized, invaded
Debilitating to the core

Like a virus,
Spreading, multiplying
Filling my every pore
The yearning for her, Gosh
To touch her to hold her
Oh the cruelty of love

The emotion was too much
An obsession even
And the heartache was crushing
Bleeding my stupid heart dry
Poor stupid heart
Love? What cruelty

Twas harsh
A game played pon my heart
That i would feel this much
Long, yearn for someone
A love so deep.
Unrequited Unwanted

The realization
Sudden, grim
An arrow through the heart
Piercing, darkness  in its wake
Sucked my soul right out
Desolation, Love's consequence

The darkness, welcoming
Embraced me with a coldness
Numbing my heart
Exorcising my soul of all emotion
Wiping my slate blank
Love, what cruelty

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My Morning Star

When i am lost deep
In the jungle of my thoughts, fears
And the darkness gathers
With its furies its terrors

When my ship is rudderless
Thrown and tossed about
And the tide rises and rises
Oblivion staring me in the face.

When my heart is drowning
In a sea of raging emotions
And renders me impotent
Desolation creeping in, invading

When all the odds are against me
And i am teetering on the brink
You are my only way home
My beautiful morning star

I wanna lie in your arms
Rest my head on your chest
Feel your heart fluttering, rhythmic
I wanna hold you so tight
Like you are slippery
Hold you and never let you go.
I wanna melt in your arms
Feel my blood hot, pumping
Melt like I am candy in the heat
Let go of myself my sorrows
I wanna feel like we are one
You and me together forever. 
I wanna hold you and never let go
My beautiful morning star

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Alone and Lonely

Alone in this world
cruel masochistic world
treacherous, treasonous
My lone soul
Frightened, anxious
Fighting against evil
Demons, Fiends
Ghouls from the past and present
Mine aching heart
Bleeding, yearning
Missing my only love
A deep agonizing love

Let thy sword come
Unleash all thy curses
I will vanquish thee
Send thee to Hades
My soul, My pneuma
Get thee ready
Thine enemies hath come
To steal, to rob you
Of thine good heart
Stand guard mine soul
Against all the world
Alone and lonely

My darling 
My life is bitter
My soul has been savaged
For they left me alone
Friendless, solitary
With only memories for company
Memories sweet and sour
They went forever
Gone to their maker
Left me their babe alone
Vulnerable unarmed
With a bleeding heart
Aching for their love
Aching for your love
A deep agonizing yearning

It was that inevitability
That robbed me thus
That left me lonely
With exiguous hope
Little to look forward to
Little to anticipate
I despaired
And was angry at everything
Nature, Life, Humanity
A ripe mind to cultivate
By the demon king Lucifer.
For i was hapless
Alone and lonely

And the fiends came
Hungry bloodthirsty vermin
Screeching happy in anticipation
Joyous and conceited in their minds
Blind and unseeing in their conceit
For my sword hand was ready
I couldn't let you down
no such betrayal from me
no such treachery from my heart
so i stood strong and faithful
Alone and very much lonely
Your love was my armor
Their love my shield
His Angels my guidance
Yet i was alone
Physically very much alone
But for your love,
For their love
For His love....
Alone and lonely

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Mute

Love and secrets
Yearnings bottled up
Desires tangled
In thoughts in deliberations
Mute, 
A voiceless heart

The fear unrelenting
Crushing my heart
My soul
Battering my confidence,
My resolve
Rendering me impotent,
Neutered
Mute
I can only be

Simmering deep inside
A love unproclaimed
Longing to burst forth, 
Blosom.
Emotions seething
Raring to overflow,
A torrent.
Mute
I remain voiceless.

The anxiety, abounds
A thousand questions,
Unanswerable
Overloading my heart
A flood
The insecurities, petrifying
My tongue inanimate
Mute
I can only be

The emotion uncontainable
The desire, the yearning
Hammering at my heart, 
Siege.
Sweeping all away
The doubts, anxiety.
Cleansing, Exorcising
But, Mute
Can I remain?