Tonight,
I lie on my favourite pillow
Saddened by tears
Because tonight, I'm hollow
I lost the only person who cares.
Nothing can mitigate the pain I'm feeling,
You left me with a gash that is deprived from healing.
How do I contend this dreadful calamity?
Who is going to fill this void within me,
this whole vicinity?
These retrospective memories,
They're so voracious!
They eat me up inside, just to retch
Then excrete these lethal fluids,
and out they go, in the form of tears.
Oh, but how contemptuous can you be?
Just leaving me
With nothing but this deafening silence.
No one will help me up when I slump on the floor
Because I lost the only person who cares,
The only one who hears
When I don't make a single utterance.
Now,
There's nothing but silence,
Just silence.
© Sibongile Maseko
***
Grade 11
***
Monday 24 September 2018
Saviour ~ Mika Datadin
You say over and over again
that You're ugly, un-pretty,
unlovable,
and that is only because
You do not know what i see in You,
love
You say over and over again
that You're not worth much
but Darling, You're worth more
than the rarest gems in the world
tripled, to me
You say that there is nothing
special about those deep brown
eyes that i consider Your holy gift
They may not shine like stars do, but
They are that enchanting darkness
without which the stars could not
burn so bright
You'll never know
what love i see in You
You'll never know
You'll never know
how unworthy i am
to behold such an Angel
as You
© Mika Datadin
***
Grade 11
***
that You're ugly, un-pretty,
unlovable,
and that is only because
You do not know what i see in You,
love
You say over and over again
that You're not worth much
but Darling, You're worth more
than the rarest gems in the world
tripled, to me
You say that there is nothing
special about those deep brown
eyes that i consider Your holy gift
They may not shine like stars do, but
They are that enchanting darkness
without which the stars could not
burn so bright
You'll never know
what love i see in You
You'll never know
You'll never know
how unworthy i am
to behold such an Angel
as You
© Mika Datadin
***
Grade 11
***
He Was Fine During The Day ~ Uwais Coetzee
He was fine during the day
And despite the darkness
He was fine at night too.
Nothing could get him down
Nothing got in his way
Not other people's actions
And not the words they'd say.
He enjoyed people's company
And talking to them on the phone,
It was all okay even when he was alone.
He was happy all the way,
Every step, every mile
And life was getting better
Until he saw her smile.
Until he saw her being
Happy without him, when
Every memory of his happiness
Involved every moment with her.
It was like how a room needs
The light to be bright but the
Light doesn't need the room to shine.
© Uwais Coetzee
***
Grade 12
***
And despite the darkness
He was fine at night too.
Nothing could get him down
Nothing got in his way
Not other people's actions
And not the words they'd say.
He enjoyed people's company
And talking to them on the phone,
It was all okay even when he was alone.
He was happy all the way,
Every step, every mile
And life was getting better
Until he saw her smile.
Until he saw her being
Happy without him, when
Every memory of his happiness
Involved every moment with her.
It was like how a room needs
The light to be bright but the
Light doesn't need the room to shine.
© Uwais Coetzee
***
Grade 12
***
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