Poetry LITERARY
TyreeceAsamoah (Year 12) Three poems by
Everyday Insanity
Bantu Lady
I know your long curved eyelashes Sagging under lunar weight
Sister, I see you everywhere
I see you at the savannahs Your pendants and charms,
I know your green eyes Lathered in lazy light
clinking and clinking on the shrub smothered breeze. Your impregnated symbols made hollow by blunt hands are bought blindly by foreigners, Eager, they crystallise moments with your essence through photo Forgetting you. Sister, Bantuh ezifana Bantu , we are one in the same, see My glory is your glory. In moonlight, we are both tinged a dark sky blue In sunlight, we both shimmer, languid sepia pools, coated. Sister, You now seem like an alien fleck in your own abode You’ve been bleached into barely being. Like this soil doesn’t know your blood and bones like it knows the rivers Which curve lasting grooves through the land. ... 97
I know your shifts your kinked, curled fluctuations
I know your green textured suit And how its silky sheen glimmers Hypnotising in stagnant moments, Pretty
I know your brilliant white teeth And brilliant white smile
I know you But I’m not sure I like you.
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