Artwell Masuku

When the clouds darken up the sky
There is a rainbow highway to be found
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
The road home stares beyond the skies
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I have waited for you
Hour upon lonely hour
Like a dog waiting
For his master
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Tell me that life
Is not about waiting
For the storm to pass
But about learning to dance
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Dead
Lifeless.
No will
No energy
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Do I watch with folded arms
Concentrate on my rhymes
Ignore what's going on
The slaughter of the sheep
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I woke up bloody
Bleeding
Guilty
Of saying my mind
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Love me now
For whom I am
Not for whom
I may be tomorrow
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Is it in the future
When one cannot
Take care of the present
And cannot feel
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We were friends once
I knew him from my childhood
But as friends sometimes do
We lost contact with one another
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Why do You always seem
To slam the door in my face
When will my life be done
So that You might finally
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Everywhere you turn
An army badge
A police baton
A threatening militia
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A volcano can lie
Dormant for a century
And suddenly erupt
And so
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He was stumbling
Down freedom way
Dripping blood
A wooden cross on his back
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The road is rough
Long and pregnant
With potholes
Some of us
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An attractive
Woman
Stood under
Neon lights
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Oppression
Repression
Jails
Genocide
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I thank the hands
That makes food
The breasts
That make milk
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Once people could roam
Free
Unbound
So noble and fair
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My whole life
I've spent searching
But never finding
Wanting
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Love composes
The most stunning
Melodies of the heart
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