Black butterfly

By Cwengile Gagela

Black butterfly, trapped in your cacoon,

Tainted with thoughts that cloud, confuse you from what could be.  

I almost gave myself to you last night, forgot that u not really mine.

I almost let u in last night, almost handed you my heart,all in attempt to feel.

So we could stop these games and make this fantasy of you and I a reality.

So we can hide beneath these sheets and make that trip to paradise.

Black butterfly I, I almost felt something as you lured me into your world

As u gently layed your lips on mine.

As u slowly undressed me, as you layed between my naked thighs,

As our bodies moved in synchrony, with each breath going deeper and deeper.

I almost , almost let my guard down as u wrap your arms and legs around me

Promising to never let go...

See, this might just be all physical for you

And when you're satisfied you will discard of me and swiftly move along...

I almost forget that you once walked in these same shoes,

And were a victim of another in these sordid lurv circles.

That numbed u from feeling,

But I, I lay here stil believing in this thing called love...

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Peace and ease

By Cwengile Gagela

Yesterday I was in this very room when

I caught a glimpse of freedom.

Silently, tiptoeing passed me...

I reached for it, grabbed it in desperation as if I was diseased and needed a cure.

I felt is slip through my fingers and I tightened them wanting no escape.

I'd been searching for it, finally I found it and as I embraced it sensations of numbness fluctuated through my body and I'D FOUND MYSELF...

AT EASE

AND AT PEACE

YOU SEE, GULLIBILITY WAS MY FOE,

BEFORE I WAS MADE TO BELIVE!!!

REPEATEDLY THESE VOICES WHISPERED

"Cwengile let go, give in, give in to these pleasures and feelings"

And as a result I lost myself in this cruel cruel world.

Ewe izolo bendindedwa,

Ndiphoxwe nguwe.

When I caught this glimpse of freedom,

I embraced it, dwelled in ITS numbness,

Freed myself,

From him,

From her,

From them,

From it,

From this bond.

And I...FOUND MYSELF

AT PEACE

AND AT EASE

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