Uprooted Rose

Breaking fabrics of our relationship

Showed rusty glitz

Like dusty aging plastic tits

The gleams of my love light died

Like fading hope of repudiated seeds

So I saw we were just two souls

Cocooned in secrecy of one fleshly room

Dancing out of sync with the rhythm of one heart

Just two spirits intertwined repeatedly

In raging wars with each other

Then I realized without the use of

Rotating swords, gazing guns

And swinging knives

We had to break-up…….

©Mpoba knowledge Monyeke

2011

MASERU 101

These streets echo their broken silences

To the ears of bleeding hills and crying mountain peaks

These streets bear footprints of unsung heroes

These streets give birth to children who raise themselves

By themselves for themselves only to be

Named street kids…

These streets breathe greed and sink it into

The lungs of these children

Even birds don’t sing here

They might get shot while chanting

Their freedom melodies…

These concrete floors dance to silent music

Of daunted spirits buried in these streets

At least Jozi streets feed the pigeons

But Maseru streets are full of lifeless concrete blocks….

©2012_monyeke_ mpoba_knowledge