Sandile Mabaso Poems

"Boldness - If I choose to loiter in this day I will lose it, and tomorrow will be the same, and I will end up lamenting the lost days" -By Wayne Wyder.

I needed a person who would cook my [spoiled] goose when my train was about to derail and he would fix the shocks. I needed a fellow who bothered to know that before the Italians could cover my feet I had cracked heels. I needed a fellow who will know the origin of all the scars on my body, I needed one who knew why I engaged the services of a bespoke tailor - that the main reason was because my body was shapeless at some point.
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"…Son, did you take time to know her…But I hope you'll make it.You'll be happy again…" Lucky Dube

Again, I had only one wish when the intersection intercepted my pinkish tissue in my body. This time it should last forever and you assured me that this one was real. I asked for your assurance, however before you could respond a dove whispered in our ears and it gave us a four worded answer which was "faith, hope and love" and its source was the sky.
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Wooo!

Yase imzungezile imamba emnyama, enamabele,
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'You strike a woman you strike a rock'- 1956's (S A) Struggle song.

I miss you, my reality director,
I miss you, my old teacher,
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