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Missing You by Fungai Tichawangana

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i am missing you in agonized moments that tick by in painful tock motion ants that never stop neon signs that won't go off flashing always keep waiting- soon keep waiting- soon as noisy interruptions scream hang on- forever! hang on- forever! a cacophony of mind dances words that make make sound of their own accord in my restless head if you were here they'd escape through my lips in soft breaths of loving you through my smile in impromptu stanzas of telling you as if for the first time that that very head that formed those words revolved in its madness around your beauty i am missing you in mornings that dawn before i can dream enough about your presence in evenings that set before i can tire enough to sleep so deep that i won't see those pictures in my slumber of you, of your smile of your sienna brown skin in days that meander always into paths that flow to your memory yearn for your aura crave for your footsteps upon their b...

Half Sleep by Nhlanhla Mkhonto

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Yesterday I woke up dead in my sleep   I stared at the slow descending    bright beautiful beginning  called my life I woke up with my eyes closed   and a heart that smiled endlessly. I woke up lying next to my soul and I listened  as it taught and showed me the divinity of my life My body froze  in times  of pure joy and my heart  smiled again.  Yesterday I woke up to a new kind of fresh air I woke up surrounded with love from the world I woke up silent and could only understand the world through emotion and slight movements that depicted the world I  lived in before  I closed my eyes I woke up with an open mind and the willingness to say yes, Yes to all that brings joy to my world. Yes to all that tingles my spine and leaves my soul with positive vibrations. Yes to my defeats that I have conquered  while my sleep danced in the eyes of bewitching hours.  Yesterday I woke up never to close my eyes to the world tha...