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So full of emotions,
But I can't write
Orchestrated temptations
Now my heart doesn't beat right
I thought strength wins against temptations
But pain chokes
The spirit breaks
Lessons from old folks
In me the king of fools wakes
Tears dries quick
Mind and heart misled
My love you forgot so quick
Heart bleeds as it once bled
Suicidal thoughts
Slipping on reality courts
My all not good enough
Walking straight and narrow
Your faith not strong enough
Dipped and shamed in sorrow
Words hard to utter
Fluent in lies,
In truth you stutter
I break easily
Love strong and hard
Promises broken easily
Love resides deep beneath the reefs of my heart
Ferocious, lies stings
Rare things and nice things
Brutal
Tongue of a broken promise stinks
What is meant to be will be
And what is meant to be let it be
'Cause life is not always a metaphor
Sweet lies we always have been waited for
Arena of sugar coated reality
Heart building a pyramid of guilt
Mystery of iniquity
Reality of immorality
Your eyes windows to the truth you hide
Guilt and shame on high tides
Quest to surf the ocean of truth
Breaking the branch and the root
Of what caused us to lie
And caused us to die...
In silence
Our words becomes silent
So full of emotions
But I can't write
Heavy on emotions
But I can't fight
I never said a word
But my heart is not silent
Lost our ways
But the pendulum of karma swings both ways
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She threw an understatement where my thoughts lingered
Words hiding beneath the shadow of reason,
Triggered
Thoughts sinking in portrayed reality
Silently in a raging mind
As she sips drunk from the bottle of poetry
Excuses masking the face of her true mind
With such an intense blindness
Her love being my weakness
The past blinded us
As we try to put it behind us
Though she never forgot about us
The past threw us into the pits of guilt and blame
Provoked my words so I can speak
The truth she wrote in letters for me to seek
In rain,
In pain,
And in shame
She threw an understatement where thoughts strolled down the isle of reality
Enticing my ear drums with words of reality
A plea to pick up where we left off
Where words never ceased to intertwine with thoughts of,
Textured morality,
Blueprint of sin,
Gene filled iniquity
My faults I have not seen
Word-spoken into blasphemy
And mouth-spoken into tragedy
A product of change,
Sole-minded to purity
A dream for both of us to age
She threw an understatement where thoughts knocked on suicide doors
Wings withered and clipped
Imperfection,
Judgment its yours
Heart shuttered,
Bled and ripped
Iniquity,shame and guilt
Soul whipped
Word left to dry and wilt
Effort to shine my rusty halo,
Imperfection is what I only know
Eyes teared,
Weeped
Feet limping like a city pigeon
Crooked,
Soaked in false religion
Mind sieved into lies
Ignorance that caused us to lie
'Caused us to fight,
Refusing repentance
Wise in our own sight,
Rejecting guidance
But she wrote an understatement between the lines
Message portrayed,
I read between the lines
A tongue twisting reality,
Strings fixed and attached to life lines
With the emphasis that life goes on
Life a blessing,
Its us who go wrong
So let the emotions be crucified,
Be sanctified
'Cause false acts will soon be denied
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Morakane...
Dear Chance
Can you stretch your hand
Put it on my infant heart
Put it on my amateur heart beat
Can you sense and feel the inexperience of my breath
Can you sense and feel my ears are deaf
Chance can you wait and let me strengthen my bones
Chance can you wait and let me wipe my eyes
Chance can you wait and let me close all the holes of yesterday
Disappointments
Chance can you wait and look
My broken dreams of beauty are on the floor
Chance can you wait and give me a chance to grow
I am looking forward to meet you again
From the one who can't take chances
Itux...
Dear Chance
Can you wait and listen to my mouthspeak
So many thoughts i have for you
So many wishes i have made for you
So many smiles i have seen you cheris,but mine
So many hearts you have healed,but mine;
My infant heart
So small and still beating
You curiously dance slowly to its limping lame beat
Beat by beat
My caring seem so desolate in your sight
You give me no chance to defend my fragility
You cloud me with thoughts of defeat
You squeeze out in me,pain and tears of deceit
Chance can you feel my strength?
Or sense the presence of my weakness
To lift my hand,carefully wiping your tears of sadness
Chance can we forget the breaths of yesterdays
That sowed holes to what seem to be days before today
Forgetting the hurt of yesterweeks of time
Burying all in dunes of disappointments
Wipe your tears away,your beauty still bears itself
I waited my chance
Now its your time to grow
Till we meet the day after ''again''
From the one who took chances
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Child of black skin
You're crushing on the silent wind
With words beneath your smile
Emollients that softens your lips
Colourful,
as summer's day
Eyes so slick beneath that ink
The soot that thickens and darkens your lashes
The vision beautified through your enhanced lashes
Carbon black that defies your fair skin
The roots that run deep
The dark melanin skin
That genes keep
Child of black skin
You're blushing at
a restless road
And winds that kisses your skin
Its current caresses your hair
Embrace the glitter that sparkles
When you flick the hair off your shoulder
Nobody is perfect
But pretense looks good on you
The cap you wear boosts your confidence
Synthetic
You're conditioned to believe that
Embrace the knots
and curls
on your scalp
Child of black skin
You are walking into reality
Your ample figure
A perfection that could inspire a sculptor
Sensually appealing
A leashed morality
Words sharper than scalpel
They don't define you
You define your self
With your ample
figure yourself
and embrace it
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Stares at a distance
Eyes cross paths
One look at you
One look at me
The stare is filled with wonder
But I still love the tan on my knuckle
You still wearing the smile he gave you
Promise I cannot break
And you still stand besides your half
It is human to err
But I am for her as you are for him
'Cause as I blink,
I'm still fighting this temptation
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Quite morning breeze
Birds sing sipping morning dew
Wonder to be thankful
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Tables have turned
And now I'm the one to blame
The turning that pushed me and put me to shame
Betrayal,disloyalty and dishonesty is on my name
Consciously the intention was untitled
Till Subconscious schemed to cause you pain;
Disloyal, the title conformed to my name
The reflection i see in my mirror
Smeared with the look of disgust
But the blurry image shines with hurt-betrayed look
''I didn't mean to do it'' its what plays like a song in this portrait
Put on repeat like a hit song
To get me well acquainted with remorse
But i tend to confuse it with regret
Tables have turned and I'm on the other side
Tables have turned and i can only see your innocence
Your sincerity reminds me of the clean slate i prepared for you
But mine was smeared with dark spots of untrustworthy
Tables have turned and i wish you could reposition them
Hearts broken,
I wonder who will mend them
Sorry can't even cut a wet tissue
But i just wish you to understand,
To broken hearts be the rescue
If you get this message,know that i couldn't say this in person.
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Dry like water
Hard to comprehend
State of mind
Failing to understand
Stretched and differed
Dreams are narrowing
Believe not wasted
Preserved and restored
Eyes wide open
Blurry vision endured
Road not seen
Mind still elastic
with stretched consciousness
Memories are fading
Chalk on blackboard
The words bleed,
the meaning breaks
Pretense so cheap
Like perfume stench
Stretched words thought
Danger cannot see
Dry like water
Hard to comprehend
State of thoughts
Failing to understand
Mind deemed to fail
Misconceptions now awakes
Danger cannot see
But boldly lethal
To the weak
And the naive
Blindly and frantically
looking for tragedy
Tragedy is fondly
looking for victims
Dumb and naive
Only one notion
The braves survive
Dry like water
Hard to comprehend
State of mind
Differed but reminded
Words we utter
Eyes so dry
From blurry vision
Mind sense distorted
An uncontrollable wishing
Consciousness stretched wide
Mind so dry
Wisdom quenches ignorance
View of life
Hard-knocks we face
Pressureof life
Beats you down
till you're humble
Mind be retaught
Soul of life
Must be preserved
Dry like water
Hard to comprehend
Mind and thoughts
Must stay refreshed
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What if i change my name and forget yours
And count the syllables that spells yours
And let the number be number of lifetimes I'll never forget you
But forgetting that now he has you
Justifying the reason I left you
Poems I wrote for you
Words I shared with you
Thoughts inspired by you
Moments captured of me and you
Dreams burnt leaving no ashes
Empty as a doubtful wish
Urges that torn and ripped your moral leash
But still, reality can't grant me that one wish
To take the left and right hand of time
Turn them palms-outwards
Grab your world and pull backwards
To whence we were one part
And bridge that distance, 'cause we are now worlds apart
Can I defer our hope and be doubtful of your promises
Or have faith in my doubted promises
Eyes kept on the ground high above our feet
The past tickling the soles of our feet
Pain whispering to our presence so sweet
Maybe in another world we'll meet
Maybe you'll bear with my understandable impatience
And love be of the essence
As time remain unconditional
Our emotions will stop being subliminal
And we won't have to wait
'Cause hearts will only bend,not break
Remain as one part
Because I'm weary of our worlds being far apart.
What if I become mute and decode your words as you speak
Since only your words knows how much truth you speak
I would understand your unintentional intentions
And share all of our unseen visions
But I see how all these can't happen
You and I are worlds apart
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She took me to the place where memories are all erased
A place where broken bits and pieces of promises where stored up
She took me to the place where mistakes are all erased,
'fessed up
And cleared up
For what we messed up
And made up
A place where she held me without touch
And kept me without chains
Our minds recalibrated to judge
Cleaning off "lies" remains
Where trust gave itself up too much
And guilt being stubborn as blood stains
But I am heir to the father of understanding,
And I am nursed by mother of acceptance
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