Jeremy Nel

I lie here on my big ‘ole bed
Before me lies my broken leg
In its plaster cast its spread
Straight and bulky like a peg.
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How oft I wish, how oft I wonder,
What is it that you think, that you desire?
You remain to me so Egyptian where you are yonder
So enigmatic and frustrating. For I am in a mire
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Oh sadness! gripping me so tight
As I meander along the path of life
Plunging into my heart thy knife.
Everything within my sight
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Isn’t it strange, how we are born without instinct to survive?
How we can drift through life without the skills
Needed to cope with the needs that drive
Our lives as we are put through the mill
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Here Kitty Kitty!
Come play with this mitty
That I had found here on the dirty floor
Right outside our very door!
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How can it be, than in one life
Some see so much strife
And other live unaware
Of life’s struggles o’er there?
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From dust were we created
Says our Lord, who gave us life and form
Alas to dust He will us return
And as our souls frolic in heav’n
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Come walk here beside me, dear friend!
Hide not thy face in the shadows!
I used to fear thee as a fiend
Feared thee like the gallows
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She came in darkness, seeking contrition
Stole quietly upon me, terrifying apparition!
Bewoe! Bewoe!
The wages of sin! Reap what you sow!
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Dull greyness of the clouds
Flatly painted upon the skies.
Lonely wind howling, curving round
The corners, scaring the magpies.
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From dust were we created
Says our Lord, who gave us life and form
Alas to dust He will us return
And as our souls frolic in heav’n
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I watch him as he steps on board
What it is about him that attracts my attention
I do not know
He stares into the empty space
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How the time flies my sweet
It seems like yesterday you were born
And now, you are a young lady.
I watch your face, so perfect
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For hurting you, when you deserved fairness
For not being as understanding and caring as I could be
And reading what you in your ever gentleness
Wanted me to hear and see
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I look into your eyes
And see the spark of hope
I look into your eyes
And see the flight of uncertainty
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You of the fair hair
And green flashing eyes
That generate their own light
Dazzling white teeth
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Each day we talk
To each other
With our bodies, our walk
As we look at one another
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Your sweet words flow across my soul
As does the water of the babbling brook,
Soothing and calming my troubled mean
Gently, as does the cooling stream,
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This is a silly ditty
About a silly mitty
That got dropped from the pram
By the little baby pushed along by his dam
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I am at peace
In the stillness of my being
Ensconced in the walls of my home
In the darkness of my universe
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