before you

before you

A Poem by The earth (Titan maphaha)

Before lashing me with hate understand
Before simmer bitterness reckon your miscalculations
before you
I commend my spirit

Before summoning your troops I bow
welcomed your splendid vow
closing all memento closets of our cryptic lives
and our glinting past that scare us with knifes
we pulled through though
we bleed scars
bruises evident as the sun

We succumbed failures so success taste sweater
Like gladiators we came alive
before you I present our chronicles
our past manacles
bonds we share

Before
Before you
broke away from me I present shutters of glass to you
that mingled together solidly turned grains
kaleidoscopically distributed atoms
Here...
this is glue
lets mend then together
to show that we came miles
going this rough road

© 2017 The earth (Titan maphaha)


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i like how this poem focuses more on the successes than the oppression....hate never wins in the end....
love and forgiveness triumph...4th line in second stanza...i read that with "knives"---

but some powerful sentiment...with some different images..the glue...mend them together...nice.

Posted 5 Years Ago


Wow. so beautifully penned. I really loved it.

Posted 6 Years Ago


Very talented and with fresh approach to life and its matters. Kudos....::::)))

Posted 6 Years Ago


'Before you ~~ broke away from me I present ~~ shutters of glass to you ~~ that mingled together solidly turned grains ~~ kaleidoscopically distributed atoms'

Immensely powerful, colourful words, finely put. Combined history hinted: perhaps settling a past event that proved difficult, perhaps an apology?

Perhaps the word 'sweater' should read ' sweeter'?


Posted 6 Years Ago


The earth (Titan maphaha)

6 Years Ago

A well written review and hey thanks i'll change that...
emmajoy

6 Years Ago

Like to read not merely scan. :)
nice calling... sounds like a call for healing... or victory perhaps... though it's a tough road we made it through... nice one...

Posted 6 Years Ago


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The earth (Titan maphaha)
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Joburg, South Africa



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KENDRICK LAMAR IS MY WORLD AND J-COLE IS MY SECOND BEST, I'm doing my Masters degree in Mathematics in South Africa, And I'm tough in business studies, I also have a chess club which I created an.. more..

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