Chapter 1
WOULD?
Would we know hat the major chords were sweet
If there were no monor key?
Would the painter’s work be fair to our eyes
Without shade on land or sea?
Would we know the meaning of happiness
Would we feel that the day was bright
If we’d never known what it was to grieve
Nor gazed on dark of the night
LOST A LOVER LOST A FRIEND
We used to be best friends
The sky is now without a cloud
Now a stranger in days of yore
The heart lays in sore
But wondered much and sorrowed more
A group of words not a sentence
Have lost a lover lost a friend
Only she can mend
Grief joltfully my heart bends
And guess its fate of how it will end
When obstacls and trials seem
Like prison will be
I do the little I can do
And when there seems no chance no change
From grief can set me free
MISSING YOU
She with happiness sailed away
I scoured the sea for many a day
And now grown rich with plundured store
I steer the course of loneliness shore
So thick as haze oh spreads the sky
They can not see the sun on high
The wind has blown a gale all day
At evening it hath died away
On the deck loves takes its stand
So dark it is they see no land
It will be lighter soon
For there is the dawn of the rising moon
DEAR DAD
The society is polarised
Wounds itch, memories haunt
Minds toil with cumber stone load
Time has ripened
Lets tell them not in riddles
Point where the pain is.
Though i will never see your life
I am glad you set a pace
Though you now resident elsewhere
From our presence you are gone
Though not forgotten
Tears may run dry
But memories never cease to pry
Togetherness in our differences
You are mine and i am yours
Together we make a difference
I need you, you need me
So lets strike a balance
Lucid dreams
No pain ezze
Can make life easy
Shattered dreams
And strange screams
Characterise my life
Which is a blunt knife
For my wife
First love
She turned to be the one i loved first
I swept it all from my chest
Clutching and butling in this quest
Though it turned out to be a test
I tried my best
But this was a curse
Because was treated like waste
I nolonger know how loves taste
So thought i should paste
IM SORRY
You are my love
whom I hope never to lose
I do not want a scar on your heart
nor even a bruise
I hope you find it in your heart
to forgive me like before
I am out here apologizing to you
with all of my soul
Do read this poem
BLURY MEMORIES
Those sweet memories
Brings a smile to my face
If you can come back
Just for slight time
So, we could just talk again once
And look at each other
Like there's nothing in this world
More fascinating than our shattering sights
You meant so much to me
And no one can ever take your place In my heart and life
But yes the fact is you never answer
And this wanting will haunt me forever
THE EMOTIONS THAT STAY WITH YOU
The emotions that stay with you
Unchanged emotions are in life
But feelings never change with time
When you are in the company of a true friend There is nothing to fake or to pretend
A true friend like you whose so kind
Who remembers me when unwind
Life is so simple with your way
I do not have to bother to say
I pour my heart in front of you
Leaving behind no clue
My friend so glad that you are in my destiny
This friendship shall remain till eternity!
Love you my bestie!
I THINK THE THING IS
I think the thing is
I think the main thing is
That I am so in love with you
I think the main thing is
That I know what's true
Of things that reflect upon
Of things that I have in my heart
I think the main thing is
That I take you as my part
You will stay with me forever
You will stay until time
I think the main thing is
That my love for you is so prime
The main thing is
love that is here
Know that I am saying this because i care
I love you so much!
~dumisani nyathi~
THE PAST WINDS AND YOU
The past winds and you
The past winds have broken my wings
As I can't fly anymore in life
I have lost the vision to see
And I have lost my reason to survive
I have lost everything I called mine
If this was to happen and destined
Then why did I find love in life
A love so pure I could not find
Feeling of pain and dejection
As everything is lost
My heart I can't find!!
AT FIRST I THOUGHT
At first you think that the love was
At first it was like a paradise
Then slowly things started to change
At first I felt a difference
Then I felt really strange
Your indifferent behavior to me
It's all love lost in your eyes I can see
Not feeling the pain anymore
Not feeling the warmth in my heart
Distance has surely come in between us
It has surely made us apart
I do not feel your love anymore
I do not feel that longing its over
It's all over from my side
As that return of the tide
In the sea!
AFTER LOVE AND FEAR, THERE’S PRIDE
After love and fear, there’s pride;
After tears, the night;
After all the words are gone
A chair with just one light.
After memories, the dream
That you will come home safe;
After sleep, another day Of waiting for my life.
After hope, the happiness Of thinking of your love;
After moments of despair
A stone no thought can move.
After all the sacrifice,
The hunger and the pain,
The passions and the promises,
The losses and the gains,
There’s nothing but my love for you,
Which waits upon the wind
To bring you from the barricades
That now you must defend.
DO NOT LOVE ME YET
Do not love me yet,
for I Am still a slender moon,
A scimitar about the heart
Too sharp to touch too soon.
Before I’m touched I need to grow
More full in golden light;
I need to smile upon my earth
And rule some patch of night.
I need to know what roads and fields
Lie in my domain
And dull my brand new ecstasies
With sophomoric pain.
I need the love of some blank boy
As cold and dark as me,
That we might grope in ignorance
And fear of what might be.
And then, when I’m a silver bowl
And know what I can hold,
Then, then, perhaps, we could try love
If you are not too old.
EVERYTHING I’VE DONE, I’VE DONE
Everything I’ve done, I’ve done
Only for your love.
Everything I am,
I am In hopes your heart will move.
I know that you love someone else,
But while you’re away,
I’ll love you just as though our love
Would last till you are grey.
Till you and I are grey, my love,
And all our days are done,
I’ll love you just as I do now;
Your heart’s my only home.
HOW CAN I HAVE A FIGHT WITH MY BEST FRIEND
How can I have a fight with my best friend?
The mountain blows, the landscape is destroyed.
A desert where there once were fields and gardens.
Black lava where flowers once brought joy.
And then shoots of grass come through the blackness;
Slowly love asserts itself again.
He calls, I cry, we go through days of whispers
And fields once more grow lush in sun and rain.
Ah! But now I’m fearful of the mountain:
I walk by trembling, set for it to blow.
Life’s beautiful, but also very painful;
I have the strength to love, now that I know.
