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Sterrekind

Rooskleurige prinses van die velde
Wingerde gedroom al en deur gestap
’n Hart wat so hunker na wandelinge  hand aan hand
Smagtend na dit wat voor lê
Soetsappige vreugde deur dring tot diep siele genot
Muse sou haar as opvolger beskik 
Dag na dag wandelend in dit wat die lewens rivier genoem word
Sou sy beslis Eva se spieëlbeeld wees
Die Romeinse godin van skoonheid se kind in werklikheid
Geluk sou werklik die wenner van haar hart sin wees
Haar wese te verwoord ’n kuns op sy eie
Sy sou ritme verwese 
’n bloeisel verwerklik tot blom 
Sterrekind sal sy ewig wees

Copyright © Herman Nel | Year Posted 2014



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Till We Meet

Your not here…. You’re there
I need to be touched… I need to be felt
I need to be missed… I need to longed after
I need to love…. I need to be loved

They’re here… They’re not there
I need to be supported now…. They support me now
I need people around me… They are around me now
I need to love… They do love me now

We’ll happen…. We won’t happen now
I’ll touch you…. You’ll feel me
I’ll miss you… You’ll long for me
I’ll love you… You’ll love me

Till then I’ll want you and miss you and think of you
I hope you’ll want me and miss me and think me too
Till then I’ll love you and dream of you
I hope you’ll love me and dream of me too
That is… Till we meet

Copyright © Herman Nel | Year Posted 2014

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Addiction

It pusses like tar out of sponge
To this given a chance, grips hold
Yet choices to this I made to give in
Addiction... Yes I’m addicted
Smoking now that it is not
its lure is more... Its lure is lust
Drawing me in... Closer and closer 
Unsuspecting gripping me and strangling
Strangled in chains as if helpless in a net
this is me, crying and praying that for once
Yes for once that this lets me go
That to be able to live freely
 I want to, I can’t let it go but I want to
I need help... I need... help...

Copyright © Herman Nel | Year Posted 2014


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