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RHYME UPON A TIME 

A Continuum 

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I Didn't Belong

Remember that time when you could say I didn't belong And you were right? That I couldn't come in, couldn't go out Be about whether day...

Comfort

'It is the turning of the wheel, my child That calms the beast in- and outside The angle of the dangling sword Mortal thrust of the cruel...

The Fall

What is this love? How to measure From realms above Intense earthly pleasure The warm heart's art That suffused veins cart This...

The Armed Struggle

Forgive me when I say There must be another way Where no-one ends up dead As peace and freedom's instead The unfolding horror broadcast...

Anti WAR

I do not support a war, no matter which side When the end means counting how many died When the dying points to when others lied The...

Democracy

Democracy the prize, the victory Like it's manifest so beautifully The egalitarianism, the equity And globally so beneficially All lives...

C'est La Vie

There is bound to be some attempt at making some aspect of Homelessness illegal, but I'm waiting for the outcry at the informal...

The Queue

Comes virile sperm The portent of a future worm To fertile egg That yet that future begs Then a foetus No clue of this When a baby...

Too White, Deaf And Silent

'The City Of Cape Town stands behind the LGBTQIA+ Community' or some such boomed the huge notice on the stage behind everyone who came...

Systemic Polemic

It is much like how being wrong Does not make you not right Or being black means looking through a lens white How being brave Is jail to...

CTCommunityPride

Cape Town Community Pride was an inspiring, emotional, intellectual, and yes, spiritual affair. A dozen Queer people from beyond the...

Performing

I care not for mindless laughter Not for its origin or its echo after Startle still at seeking answers Turning singers into dancers A...

Here And There

Another conflict, some other furore Now trumps the ongoing one from before And even calling out similarities Seen as pointed distortion...

The Rush

Which side am I on, you ask? The anti-war, a thankless task It matters not the win You lose when you begin Makes of life's little worth...

War

War is a whore A playground for power Measured by the hour It keeps a hellish score Killing both victim and victor Boldly calls it the...

Shamiellah's Tears

Shamiellah's morning started about fire What was left after the night's burning, now in ash expire No life, but the only thing not so...

Roots

The thing about old Roots Is all the white offshoots The sly, creepy self-awareness The absolute lack of tangle-free cheeriness The...

It's Pride

It's Pride Come those that hide From others and them Them themselves, shem Reckoning the tide The roller-coaster ride The faint-hearted...

The Cape Is Fine

The Cape is fine The weather is divine The mountain a beaut The beach a heart-route The possibilities très bright For tourists day and...

The Grift

It is in worth on this barren earth That our measure is valued. It is with hate they laced our fate - Whilst to nobility allude - What is...

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