Langelihle Maphumulo Poems

On an uphill road ahead
gawking at me,
A few twists and turns
lay inaudibly.
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i toddle about like a captive...like a prisoner enslaved by words in my heart i walk around pacing back and forth...Sentences and paragraphs seeking to manifest themselves confine me to a chair with my now bowed head...running my eyes in the pages that are instruments in my creativeness,
To the rhythm that only i can hear, A pen dances like emotions within me,
Bouncing up an down......Tapping And twirling round and round....
Then i raise my head in celebration of liberty....free...i am free from all that's within me,
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You love me like a dream come true, You sing me like a brand new song that's never
been sung before,
You play me like a symphony, Know me like you made me,
You hold me in your arms and feel my vulnerability and fragileness, You handle me with care,
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You turn and step away,
Walk out and forsake me,
You steal my heart like sunset
sinking into the mountains.
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Can i lay here beside you and feel the warmth
of your body all up against mine...? ,
Can i rub your shoulder all the way down,
line up our hands and feel your heartbeat
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i am inspiration for history and stories narrated throughout times, i am human...a root of existence,
A tale told throughout days and years that lack wisdom and sanity, Wishing for a better day that gives new meaning to lost generations...
i am devotion to that search for stability within humanity, Evolving into unattainable sacredness like a daunting shadow of hope for a victorious future,
i am the past and present, i pave way for times to come through narrated chronicles down to my native peoples.
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My yesterdays seem not so far away...
A place somewhere in me where there is YOU, Where there is US and everything we believed in.
For a moment i stop stepping, turn around and look back,
One moretime i visualise and fly away to where forever once lived,
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Admiring the black sky tonight,
clouds battling to affirm
their white as snow
loveliness,
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Take my hand and lead the way,
Guide me throughout this journey
and innocence of my childhood yet
once again,
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i am the wind that swings across
the land,
i am the branches of a tree swaggering
side to side,
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