metro african ligkaribe

I’m a Bantu girl (likgaribe) of Setswana/ Sotho /Shona descent.. Having grown up in Bulawayo I also have a strong Ndebele heritage. Currently I live in Botswana but a part of me will always be Ndebele. I am of the Mmirwa tribe –, my totem is the Buffalo & just like the Buffalo I am very brave, protective, fierce and dangerous when provoked. I love learning about my African heritage, and that of other people, I believe if you stop learning as a person you might as well roll over and die.

Monday, August 21, 2006

A ligkaribe Poem - Forbiden

Why does it have to be this way with you?
Why does your embrace hurt me so?
Stop, please stop
Why won’t you stop
It hurts

Are you lost?
Lost just like me
Or are you worse than me?

You asked
Why do you always have to do the right thing?
I ask
Why do you always have to do the wrong thing?
Why must there always be pain?

Where are you going?
Nowhere
Your tomorrows are just like your yesterdays
And so every day for you is today

Were are you coming from?
Nowhere
For where you came from you can never go back
And so its as good as it never was

Where are you now?
Here
here with me, wishing and hoping that through me
you might gain a past, have a future


You were never there
You are just here
Going nowhere

How can I not feel you
How can I not hear you
How can I escape you

Taken by you
You claimed me as your own
That laugh , that voice
Laced with contempt
This is all you can be
The heat of your presence
Your touch
Your nearness terrifying

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