SUNSHINE

Silence flows through
this cacophony of love
a shared existence
in life's twisted terrains

words fail
sometimes...

yet to know
that you may never know
is sheer sad-ity

thunder strikes
sometimes...

you're here as you are
calm and celebrated
joyous whirlwind
shake me now
shake me forever

floods rage
sometimes...

unbowed
Naimah smiles
for her beautiful mother

the sun?
the sun shines

© November 2015

FREEDOM AS BONDAGE

@sayafrica:
If the spark is gone
don't hurt yourself more
trying to be nice
cut me adrift like ice.

@Sangodala:
If you had cut me adrift
in error of judgement
uncertain of the spark
or its presence
confuse me no more
chase not my now receding shadow.

@sayafrica:
Am no eunuch
to be auctioned
nor alsatian
but a Spartan
the bullet to my body
or the pitchfork
to my head

@Sangodala:
You're child
of no lesser goddess
this now i confirm
if the Rubicon you must cross
let it not be to Waterloo
where Napoleon now rests!

@sayafrica:
Like Noah to Ararat
i too my must arrive
at a safe haven
far from the havoc.

© November 2015