Lately Poem by Mishack O Madubandlela

Lately, I've been reminded that love is the only
thing that never runs out
Lately, I've been reminded that love is all that's
timeless,
That time is of the essence and that time is all that heals but it's I who needs the healing

I've been searching for something real, but all
feels fake with you gone
The distance isn't easy but how can you feel so
close from a million miles away?
I think about the nights when I reminisce about
you and wish I could get away
… from all this…
Deception, my life feels like the inception of its
extremity.
You know that I never drink when I'm mad,
Because the cure to pain isn't something you
buy at liquor stores
But every night I still think about you
And when I go out with my friends I still drink about you

I wish I could ask you why you left, but I know it was never your choice
A predetermined destiny,
a destiny we're all
prescribed and that no one can fake.
A bittersweet pill we're all forced to take
And now my heart's bitter, I swallow, might wash it down with some shots … So cheers…
to what we lost