Poet-Today | Age of Reason | Peter Kwanqe
Our young Poet-Today writes through the ages. Read his reason.
At ten,
I thought I was lonely
until someone came and sat next to me.
At twenty,
I thought I was the shadow of a
lost ghost,
until that person held my hands tenderly like
a rose.
At thirty
I never knew I was beautiful and soft like a
snow,
I never thought my heart could actually beat
very fast and slow
until that person drifted close,
until that person kissed my lips gently, gently,
and raised a tent in my soul.
At fifty,
I thought I needed a space out of this sweet
hell.
He frowned and called me all sort of names.
He said I was Jezzibel.
At sixty,
he went back to his mother's home.
I thought I was free and independent like
a bird,
I never knew I craved for a freedom and for a
torment.
And now,
I stink here
like the mouths of these politicos.
I look worse than the pus of a dog.
Most of it all!
I lie here crippled and
chained in this cage of corruption where
crickets and cockroaches crusade on me.
I thought I was lonely
until someone came and sat next to me.
At twenty,
I thought I was the shadow of a
lost ghost,
until that person held my hands tenderly like
a rose.
At thirty
I never knew I was beautiful and soft like a
snow,
I never thought my heart could actually beat
very fast and slow
until that person drifted close,
until that person kissed my lips gently, gently,
and raised a tent in my soul.
At fifty,
I thought I needed a space out of this sweet
hell.
He frowned and called me all sort of names.
He said I was Jezzibel.
At sixty,
he went back to his mother's home.
I thought I was free and independent like
a bird,
I never knew I craved for a freedom and for a
torment.
And now,
I stink here
like the mouths of these politicos.
I look worse than the pus of a dog.
Most of it all!
I lie here crippled and
chained in this cage of corruption where
crickets and cockroaches crusade on me.
Peter Kwanqe is a young writer who has found happiness in art. He
has written and published a poetry book entitled Deflowered. Some of his poems have appeared in different journals.
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