Portal for Writers and Poets in South Africa
She is a big bully
fighting this little girl
she fights with weapons
all the little girl has are books
why fight the little girl
have you forgotten
you too were once bullied
and then you rose to be queen
the little girl is harmless
all she wants is peace
freedom to pray to worship
let her be big bully
You are a queen
she will not remove your throne
persecute her more
give her freedo of religion
Night falls darkness surrounds me
it sounds the siren for them
the creatures of the night
you cannot see them
as they invade your mind
making your fears come alive
you cannot hide from your
own mind
so you wait in agony
for the dawn to arrive
when no creature can harm you
until till then you wait
to weak to fight the
creatures of the night
you created them
only you can destroy them
reaching for a little box
full of white pearls
just one you say just one
and you fall asleep
to waken at dawn
We have lowered the standards to suit us
Compromising and compensating quality for quantity
We run a race with paralyzed competitors
Shying away from pitting ourselves against the real best
We have made ourselves a people of limited potential
Refusing to push ourselves harder
We pull the finishing line backwards to shorten the race
But when we hit it we celebrate like real champs
We have promoted laziness among ourselves
Celebrating our mediocrity as the best
We create our own little comfort zone
Comforting and consoling ourselves with a whole lot of stupid excuses
We claim that we are the best
Though we know it’s not true
We put blinkers on our eyes
So we won’t see that others are doing far better than us
We blame others for our own failures
Instead of analyzing and rectifying our errors
We cry foul when things don’t go our way
The entire universe is to blame but us
We keep repeating the same old things
But expect different results
We complain about everything
Except for our own attitude and laziness
We have formed a perfect friendship with the warmth of our blankets
Why hurry out of bed
We eat far more than we earn
As we only live our lives for the present moment
They asked me, where is South Africa?
I told them, it is a country situated
at the bottom Southern tip of the continent, Africa.
They did not understand.
I told them: It is where;
Wayde van Niekerk and
Caster Mokgadi Semenya
Comes from.
Again, I told them: it is where;
Sunette Viljoen
Luvo Manyonga,
Chad le Clos,
Cameron van de Burgh,
Lawrence Brittain and Shaun Keeling
Comes from
Again and again, I told them, it is where;
Blitzboks and
Henri Schoeman
Comes from.
And, they suddenly
understood.
Because, they shaped SA well
in Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
So you want to play God over my happiness
You decide when I can have a smile on my face
When I can have my face soaked in tears
You simply make and break my happiness
Why am I even crying
Am I crying because I dread the thought of life without you
No, I am crying because I hate every memory of the day we first met
I regret everything about that day
I regret every second of my life I have allowed you to waste
All I want now is to just forget about you and pretend like you were never there
I will forever regret giving you far too many chances
When all you ever begged for was only one
You think you have me right where you want me
Wrapped around your little finger eating from your palm
You’re convinced that I don’t know that love is not what you want me to think it is
My mind is blind I don’t see anything, you fool yourself
You want to believe that hitting and kicking me is just another way of expressing your love to me
When you yell, shout and scream at me all you are doing is loving me loudly
You seem to believe that all my pain and tears can easily be wiped and dried by a single kiss
We can just kiss make up and forget everything
There are many things on which I can write But I want to write on living How you can get meaning Back to your life.
It is something we all are missing Until we like the people of old Start to realize who God is And then find out who we all are.
It is easier than you think to do It takes total surrender from you To God’s control When He makes a life call.
It does change a person So that you can mature in season To grow as the person you were meant to be It only takes time to see.
It is not the easiest thing to do But it has it’s advantages: It gives you a reason for living When God answers all your why questions.
When Life Does Not Make Sense And You Compare Your Life To That Of A Thriller You Are Waiting In Suspense For The Thriller To End.
Unfortunately, Life Is Not A Movie Circumstances Can Be Compared To A Killer Who Kill The Last Hope You Have You Are Always Thinking How It Is That You Will Survive.
Daily You Must Face Difficulties They Come Your Way And The Sharpness Of The Circumstance-Knife Is The Cause For The Endless Pain Inside.
It’s Then That The Suicide Thought Comes Your Way They Are Constant, Waiting For The Day That They Get You To Take Them To Mind And Cause Your Last Breath To Be Breathed.
Circumstances Can Change If You Allow God To Use It For His Plan For You But Until You Do You Will Continually Feel This Great Emptiness Inside.
Touch me touch me
I say I need your touch
I want to feel loved
I need to feel loved
so touch me
make me al warm inside
let me feel your skin
your skin on my skin
Touch me touch me
caress my soul
your touch means a world
where i feel safe
Losing your direction Not knowing where you are going You are among the dying people That I see around me.
It is in this condition That I want to give you Some advice to help you pull through And that is to give God a chance.
It is what I have experienced To know that He works wonders when faith Is put into what He promised And you experience this for yourself.
Then you will want to live And thoughts on death will disappear For you will be able to bear The burdens that you wanted to escape from.
Then you can learn what it means To be really living. How life can start to have meaning When it is God that becomes a friend.
It is only when we understand How God in His love works in a life That we in time can see How He blessed us with what we went through.
It is the love of a Father’s heart That is working in His child’s life To help the child realize Just what He wants to do.
When you understand this You will be able to trust and acknowledge That God is working In your life for a bigger purpose.
In this assurance you can rest For it is for the purpose for you to be blessed. Like children who gets punished For something they did wrong.
It is the Father’s punishment That taught the child a lesson To not do it again And from this they learn.
