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No -you’re greedy

A Little girl looked up
with big brown eyes
asking the usual question
“daddy buy me that”
(his usual reply)
“No you’re greedy –
you want everything your
eyes see”

walking into a shop
the little girl asked
with big brown eyes
“daddy buy me that”
then came the usual reply
“No you’re greedy –
you want everything
your eyes see ”

watching the telly
the little girl asked
with big brown eyes
“daddy buy me that”
then came the reply
to my surprise
“anything for you ”

the little girl replied
with big brown eyes
“no daddy you must say-
No you’re greedy
you want everything
your eyes see”

Today’s World

Where do I begin?
U were just a teenage girl trying to fit in
It all started with an exchange of bbm pin
Next day its was a kiss on the chin
Next week kisses on the skin
Next month u committed a sin
You were just trying to have fun,but u ended up with a bun
And gave birth to a son
Its sad that you thought he was the one
Now that he got what he wanted,he is done.

Remember how he looked you in the eye
Touched your thigh,and told you he loved you
Knowing very well that it was a lie
Or do you remember how you guys got so close
He bought you a special rose
All of that just so that he can remove your clothes
What happen to love?
Today’s society…

Butterflies -falling inlove

The larvae in my stomach aren’t for show
They crawl around inside and cacoon
They hide away, and always say no
They’re intimate with your bright eyed swoon

They know about your charm
My stomach muscles clench from fear
My unhatched butterflies feel you bring harm
And they don’t want to lapse with you near

They cower from your mist and guile
Who knows what’s behind your intent
Yet they feel a flutter with just your smile
And I long to feel content

I wrap my arms in close
And claim confinement rather than joy
I’ve brought along my shovel I suppose
To bury these feelings for a boy

A love I see in your warm soft eyes
Frightened, a cause shakes in me
I erupt and melt and turn into butterflies
And keep the flutter from flying free

Too much to lose,
My ripples of doubt condense
You smile and my heart you confuse
And I lower and drop my fence

The sleep I’ve been in tires
And I awake and suddenly feel
Yet my cacoon hardens and expires
Still beauty sprouts from something real

Like a leaf in autumn’s breeze
Falls swiftly without pre-empt
My cacoon lays in freeze
To be awoken by a sweet attempt

The tiny tickles in my stomach grow
My cacoon no longer an excuse to stay inside
My future stuck around and took it slow
And shared himself while I decided to hide

A conclusion most minds will debate
Because it’s not too common to see
I’ve fallen inlove with more than my fate
And he’s brought out the butterflies in me

Potions

Potions
Bubble and boil
Little glimmers

Artist of note

I can tell by the way
You paint the sky
Your’e an artist of note
from whispy clouds
to fiery sunsets
creativity has no bounds

I can tell by the way
You compose music
Your’e an artist of note
from singing birds
to babbling brooks
creativity has no bounds

I can tell by the way
You landscaped the earth
Your’e an artist of note
from alpine forests
to flower meadows
creativity has no bounds

I can tell by the way
You have written books
Your’e an artist by note
from Genesis the first
Revelations the last
Your love for us has no bounds

Why dont you …..

Why don’t you like me
why don’t you see me
the girl infront of you
the girl who likes you

why don’t you leave me
why don’t you let me
forget about you
try to get over you

why do you stay with me
why do you love me
why is love complicated
being hurt by you
trying to get over you
to marrying you

Waterblommertjie bredie

Your claim to fame
is an ingredient ,an
ingredient to a South African
icon-along the lines of babotie

Though your beauty
can rival that of an orchid
your pearly white petals
scream out “less is more”

Your scent so sweet and pure
could mimic a rose in full bloom
the cinderella of flowers becomes
the princess of spring

a diamond in the rough
you weather conditions tough
to bloom and glow in spring
bringing romance to the vlei

Why

Just heard the news today
your’e dying they say
not long to live
3 months docters give

before you die
I need to know why ?
Why did you betray us ?
Were you ashamed of us?

Why another family you had ?
Did we not make you glad ?
Why hurt my mother ?
You’re our hero -father !

I want to scream at you
cursing you hitting you
if i did this rant and rave
would it send you to a early grave

so I dont ask why?
Instead I watch you die
with you answers go
and i will never know

why you abused us
why other kids above us
why all the lies
it destroyed family ties

instead i ask why in my dreams
I still want answers it seems
but you dont answer me
death shielded you from me

Beauty

Everywhere I look
I sea beauty
beauty in the colours
chosen for a colouring book
beauty in a cottage garden
with stocks and sweet allysum
just writing of it
brings a smile to my face
shape texture colour
of leaves capture my gaze
as I weed the the little garden
the warm sun bathes my skin
as I enjoy the warmth
yes I am happy
I see beauty in everything
even intricate patterns on a dress
this can only mean
my brain is healing
no more angry negative thoughts
that invade my mind
like a virus
I see life a new and I love it

words

When will I be strong enough to say the words that hide in my heart?
When will I be trusting enough to know that you’ll understand why,
When all the time I smile and I laugh I am crying deep underneath,
In the place where you crawl when your life feels too small and you’re bursting to breathe in the deep?

Why will I not rip my heart open wide and let words tumble out with no thought?
Why seal up my lips with the feel of the rage that I stupidly struggle to speak?
Why when I know that honesty only is all that you seek and would give,
Do I blanch when you ask why I’m wearing that mask when love’s light should be all that I keep?

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