SUNSET
THE SUN IS TOO BORED TO BOTHER
IT DECIDED TO SET AND SPUN LIKE
A TOSSED COIN AS A TIME EXPIRED
THE NIGHT GRABS AND NAILS ME DOWN
TSATSI LAYA MATUBATSANA
MERITHI HOA THEHA YA DIOTLWANA
TSATSI LA DIKELA LABAKA MAHLOMOLA
KODU YA MALLA FIFING LA BOSIU
MOON CLIMBS TO THE HORIFON
AS THE STARS ARE NAKED IN THE BLUEBED OF
NIGHT AND COVERED WITH ALL THE SKINS
OF THE SKY EVER SEEN.
LAZY NIGHT IS
WITH ITS VOICE OF DECAY
SINGING THE SONGS OF SORROW
BECAUSE THE SUN DIED IN THE WEST.
RETURN IN TRIUMPH
LAST day of the war it was
Defeat came as a signal, plans didn’t sound
Rebuilding of plans prevailed strength
And send a sail once more with converted plans
Since strength doesn’t come from winning
But struggle develops someone’s strength
They didn’t give-up, because it was merely temporary
And they braved many terrifying battles
Fought one so gruel and angles turns with vision
Their faces stand erect above the earth
Real fighters don’t quit, and give no hostage
To fortune in gruesome battle
War of freedom it was, they where detained as well
And landed cruelly
Fight they did
Under the banner of oppression
Their uncertain return and our uncertain patience
Was not in vain
They overcame this moment of time
Returning in triumph and created eternity.
Mama Africa
Which life has written in pen of centuries?
As the journey is through the womb
A multiple birth of African children’s
Exploding as children’s from womb of Africa
Thanks for creating us black and white
Making of us porters of all sorrows
The birth of Africa, Africa my mother land
Your roots and feelers caressing our bodies
Skins absorbing the home sun Africa
Your voice is the voice of all voices
Your back is gleaming
Gleaming back the world richest soil
Your breast feed us with sustaining milk
Through your eyes we see
We see the worst thing to be without
Hope
Staring at the night wishing star landed
Nowhere else to go than inside my mind
I wished, wished and wished but alas
I wished I could cry, but to whom
I wished I could be loved, but by whom
I accepted finite disappointment
But never shall I loose infinite hope
It changes no states to my persistence
Endurance, what kind of a fight
Preserving values, asserting some faith
Hope the worst thing to be without.
Lost son
Home sweet home
Home is where the heart is
No place like home
After other places closes
Listen to the call
Home coming son
The call of the long awaited soil
Prodigal son whose youth he teared to shreds
He was detained as well
Listen to the call
In the deep chest of the jungle
Wind whispering your name
kgutlela hae
The breaking point is looking back
Since your mind became the body
Immersed like some lost children’s
In the very depth of their roots
Country has no sons
We are rather the sons of disgrace
Our bones turned to dust
But the spirit welcomes you in the song of birds
Drums are pleading, children’s dances their
Magical dances to the rhythm of walking
Lost son has return
Most gracious exemplar
I thank you god for creating of me
For making of me most gracious exemplar
I feel your warmth when fresh breeze
Blown onto my nostrils I am pleased
With everything you gave to me
I the prodigal child shape of my head
Made to lead the world while my
Nostrils snuffing every wind of the world
Tenacious battling with the world
Thickness of my lips spills out rain
My mind runs forever as the Gulf Stream
Most gracious exemplar existing in all things
In the empty sockets despairing of possessing life
Since the down of time my blood reddened all nature
Since the down of time my tears flowed to flooded streams
My mouth is wounded because it dared to sing
Singing the song unknown to me
As my voice is howling through my skull
I, the most gracious exemplar I’m nothing
But I am all that I am and more than I am
And so much less than I am because of you
Breaks the silence
It is time I said a word
I feel to speak this is my desire
Speaking the only truth worth saying
As long as there is pain, famine and death
I speak with unintelligible barking
Because reality behind lies is death
And understanding of tears is pain
My heart heels averting itself
While seeking for words
My voice speak remorseless
Wounds are deeper than flesh
Life is an art of drawing with no eraser
Is an the unarguable referent
Where to go is what to do
Death is walking the land
Poverty is our flesh and blood
Say no shouting in anger by being
An example of what you want to see
And simply breaks the silence
Freedom fighters
The sunshine that was to be
Singing new songs unknown to them
Rebel’s freedom is their cause
The cause of dream of freedom
They dreamed until they die
Blood were congealing on the streets
Bodies wounded by marks of revolt
Sjamboks hurt as they teared their faces
Their hands were crushed
Because they defended
Bullets were daily stalkers
Mouths were wounded
Because they dared to sing
They dreamed until they flock to exile
Streets were swept clean by fear
They dreamed until they go to prison
And they sunk into silence
But embracing the world with hope
Singing freedom is coming tomorrow
Let the honour be unto them
They dreamed and hoped
To live in one Democracy in Peace
Lovers and friends
In the friendly darkness of love
I was almost to lose my faith
But you came to my surprise
And stole my heart away
You took me right out of hell
Simply by showing you care for me
Only by giving me you’re everything
You let me out of darkness
You brought me out in the sun
You took me right out of the night
By filling my heart with light
Agreeable friend, you pass no criticism
You smile caresses my eyes
My heart heels averting itself
Hurtling through the loniless of life
Amazed is all I can say
I confess without remorse a shame
Assessing the properties of love
Love is a bargain for the best
African woman
African woman full bosomed
Your loins are more fertile than banks of Nile
Woman who adorns herself and the fields
Never shall I forget your loving face
The constant image of your face
With simple awesome dot in black
Black mother, mother earth
Daughter of the living land
This is black beastliness
Your breast resembles the finest gold
Your womb conceived heroes and heroines
African Lioness
Your back is gleaming back beneath the world
Underneath the shadow of timeless earth
African woman whose love never wavered
You, whose love endures through all,
Your glances watching us everywhere we go
The warmth of your hands
Caresses our eyelids of darkness
Your eyes trigger-happy
When you open your heart
We see the saviour’s image
Hate someone you love
Things I hate about you
I hate that you always have my full attention
And I can never stop looking at you
I hate that you always great and unique
I hate that I am always pleasantly surprise
By the brilliant focus on you
I hate that you always focuses on what’s good for me
I hate that you always find a way to personalise yourself
In such a way I really feel
Most of all
I hate that I love you so much that
I can’t stop dreaming about you.
African Belonging
Once I go black I will never go back
I may excel in knowledge of their tongue
I may excel in knowledge of their customs
But I am an African belonging
Our land is a garden of piety
Africans are trapped into western land
The lost braves lives underground
Reclaiming the land under the earth
Mayibuye e Africa
Africa
Africa living land
Africa belongs to everyone
Africa surrounded by oceans
Rivers roaring day and night
Its waters cleanses all wounds
And heals sicknesses
Africa hot land of rising sun
Africa land of wildlife
Living upon Africa
Africa living land, Africa belongs to everyone
Through dark ages, no single drop of hatred in
Africa breast, Africa with awesome oceans
Rivers roaring day and night
Its waters cleanses all wounds and healing
Sicknesses
Africa hot land of rising sun
Africa land of wildlife deep dense
Jungles and green land of fertile soil
Africa feast for eyes as its hands
Grapes in the wind
The wonderland with mighty mountains
A beloved rainbow nation
Journey to success
The journey from the earth to the star exist
The journey is through hardship
Finally destiny is better than journey
But destiny intervene with pressing engagement
On your way fall but rise every time
Don’t stay down but refuse stubbornly
Goals is only as worthy as the effort
Required to achieve it
Don’t blame fate for your failures
Nor luck for your success
In the long run we tend to get what we give
Your future is in your hands, it depends on you
You and I
You and I have betrayed the dreams
Of young man,
He who died two thousands Years ago
The one who is jealous
And passionate about us
We astonished to be alive
We are astonished to get for a walk
He who sacrificed his life for you and I
Giving us what we don’t deserve
You and I often say
Our father thou Art in heaven
For on earth he is uncomfortable
Because of this noble cause
He hung on the cross
Declining like a dross
Bounded as a criminal
Lashed like an animal
He who suffered the affliction
For you and I so that we could
Reunite and live eternally
No wonder, no thunder
Blessed is the man Jesus,
The risen Christ
The mans salvation, Christ is
The answer for you and I
Death
Death comes with no invitation
But you are invited to burial
Friends gather with jokes and laughter
Drinks to celebrate the burial rites
Of one who is about to depart
We banding our brothers farewell
Even though hearts needs endlessly
Tears and sighs, sighs and tears
He has gone to a higher life
Wood when it breaks it can be mended
But ivory breaks forever
This is agony of years
Ha re se molleleng, re itelele ka borona
Le ha lefu le le bohloko le le sehloho
Le kotula moo le sa jalang
Re re holokile holokile
Oe kgathile ya hae tema tlase lefatsheng
Thabang ke hona, hobane lefu ke le nqosa
Le molemo le kopanyang motho le modimo wa hae
Now he art in heaven
For he decided to surrender the world
Let the dead Depart in peace
Trees
Green life
In the pure land
Trees are very contemplative
Trees of African origin
Trees are the eyes of the living
Trees are walking as branches falls in Braille
Saying
Greenness must not be spilled
So that sky can turn green
And give birth to green life
Trees work hard and have money different
Jobs to do, providing us with wood and food
Trees make a better world
Helping cause rain and clean the
Air we breathe roots keep soil from washing Away
Which makes streams and lakes cleaner
Providing us with shade in summer while they block
Cold winds in the winter, trees don’t stand statue still
Look them with new eyes
We need Trees
But they need us too
Let’s harm them not
By ensuring their Survival
Trees means the world look after them
Nelson Mandela
The world’s greatest leader of all times
The living god for he sacrificed his life for you and I
He who suffered affliction
So that we could re unite
He created the world
Where there’s neither black
Nor white, only South Africans
So called unity in diversity
For this noble cause he proclaimed A dream,
A dream to bring about changes
But his dream tend to be his enemy
For he was bounded as a criminal
And lashed like an animal
But bless is the man Nelson Mandela
He dreamed and hoped
To live in one democracy in peace
Shouting everyday
Long live
While singing ‘sounds the call to come together
And united we shall stand let
Us live and strive for freedom
In South Africa our land’
It is about time
Gone are the days, gone is the time
To stand tall you need to believe in yourself
And show the world who you are
Be like a cloud in the sky
As light as the feather
Showing all your true colours
It’s about time
To shine like a star in the night
As the young soul filled with dreams
Be like a knight on a trusty steed
The best that you can be, depends on you
It’s about time to own yourself
And engineer yourself be not has been
But he will, or he is
wondeeful
Jinang Dangkat
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