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 May 2014 Manqoba
PrttyBrd
Paint for me a dream
Colored in hues of emotion
Steeped in love
And dusted in music
 Apr 2014 Manqoba
Leks
Calls her
Answers

What do you want?

(I want to love you the way you're father should've
I want to love you as much as my ashtray endures the company of marlboro buds

I want to touch you the way you described the way you want it in your tweets about an imaginary lover that makes so much sense to you

I want to dissolve myself in your virginity, take it from you, eat your inoccence out,quench my lust for the taste of the pigment of your pink matter, confirm your place in the realm of the vanity case locked with ****** deviance

I want to confess to your holy alter that I will sin and that you are the sin and speak in tongues down your alter till it confess too
I want to humble myself with my hands together as you feel my genitals with your sacred crimson lips

I want to grab your hips tightly and have conversations with you, using nothing but my eyes,my tongue and my ten fingers
I want to fervently follow this routine like your my own beautiful ten commandments
And the 1. Clearly states in italics --  *thy shall quench thirst


I want to show you that...)
  
Hangs up

*Commits suicide
Its a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you
 Apr 2014 Manqoba
Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
 Mar 2014 Manqoba
Riley Ayres
The endorphins fill my broken mind,
the bleeding does not cease as the relief overwhelms,
my body convulses at the touch of the knife,
but the feeling is one of medication.

My mind is sick,
only to be healed by the small droplets falling from my wrists,
my pills a mixture of pain and happiness,
my heart beats loudly and my body feels weak

nothing will stop the feeling once it has started
no one will make me wish I had never pierced my flesh
my scars tell a tale of great frustration
years of being battered and left aside

My father non existent,
his replacement would make him choke,
without him I would not have spiralled
into this deep dark pit of depression,

he was abusive by nature but that's no excuse,
he ruined me for 16 years and im still ruined now,
left for dead on the side of the highway
a life saving operation I had rather left me dead,

Coming through the other side,
has yet to happen smoothly
and as I watch his evil eyes,
I collapse , never again to open my mouth
 Mar 2014 Manqoba
witchy woman
Resisting the temptation,
of that entranced beyond words haze
passenger seats & chain smoking cigs,
bringing me back to crazy days

& of the nights we spent
wired, in love & on fire
whipping one-seventy down the free way
our young lust never to grow tired

but, baby

your strength for me
& the power we posses together
is enough to keep me up & running
forever

and ever

and ever.

xo
 Mar 2014 Manqoba
Dena
The Lost
 Mar 2014 Manqoba
Dena
We march in a straight line.
Sleep inhibited by pounding
footfalls and cloudy breaths.
Stone beats on cold flesh
which beats on our hearts
as we beat beat beat away our troubles
to a drum thats lost its tune.
We sing songs that have no words.
We lie, about where we
have come from and where we are going.
We speak in circles until
we forget what we speak of,
what we speak of leaves our
tongues in smoke and ash
fallen from a sky lined
with something different than
the khol that lines eyes that reflect midnight
instead of starlight.

The drum has lost its beat.
We fall apart and the
north star that used to pull us
forward, onward, fades.
Our faces paler in the dawn light
reaching an oak tree we drop.
Return to our headstones
Earth, blood, bones become one again.
We are night.
 Mar 2014 Manqoba
Leks
alas my long lost friend
Alas..

(Deep breath)

I have not forgotten our conversations that streched in the darkness of our room and grabbed dreams as hot as the sun and as bright as the nebula of dying stars

I have not forgotten your comfort/advice within my addiction
I spent 365 days with you and gained insight every single second spent in your Presence

(Chuckles subtely)

Your parlance was weak but mine wasn't so we balanced out perfectly
Your profanity was like honey to my ears and mine, well, mine was incrypted silently within my laughters with you

I remember the day we spoke freely about our ambitions and hopes in life it was so beautiful that today my friend those words vaguely linger on my tongue as we were also young so our minds were like young hungry wolves out for their first hunt.
I loved it

We spoke until our sleep was in sync it intertwined so well that we sleept at the exact same time I was grateful that we were both silent/light sleepers as every sound through the window you valiantly probed me to open was of nature and the moon illuminated our room like our own star we rarely left our curtains open but when we did -- it was beautiful
I sometimes stayed awake to see the clock hit mid night just to soak it -- as my mind roamed free after mid night

Oh my friend..

How I miss our immature scenerios of how the world would end and the lustful rants about the girls/women we wish to devour on this god forsaken planet we call earth
The way we spoke about music as if we were there in the studios of the vast array of artists that we spoke about
Frank ocean
The Script
Flying Lotus
Red Hot Chili Peppers
And many others...
We talked and talked and talked and talked until the duty prefects grew slim of our horiddly loud rants you would take the blame, that way we both knew we wouldn't be punished as you were considered a fragment of gold for the school and I merely silver and silver is not nearly better then gold

(Chuckles wholely)

Our laughs coexisted like a melody only mozart could compose our inside jokes made people sick of our ability to laugh in complete silence by merely communicating through eye contact it was delightful/enlightening

Oh and your mind
You underestimated it to be honest. You were top twenty in the grade but your mind did not reflect this. For some reason I was the only one who could unlock the intellectual matter out of your vanity case (brain)
It made me feel special as at the time I was a minority and your companionship had me placed on a golden pedestal
I probed you about the effects of marijuana that you seemed so eager to explore but in my mind a dark shadow over my words grew as I knew the effect of marijuana on the first timer I knew I had to be in the prescence and high enough to not be consumed by it as marijuana was embedded in my vescular codes
...
There were times when I was high for a whole week and you didn't notice.
My eyes were blood shot but I'd usually use the excuse of being tired and you'd accept it quite humbly
Your friends became my friends
My friends became your friends
I feel like we started a revolution
You and I
As our peers did not coexist the way we made them to at the time
I did not tell you this as you would've probably thought I was high again

Oh my friend

You left nothing but nostalgia in my mind and lingering words/phrases you fervenly adored/abused, some even of my own
I embraced them.
I remember the hate I had for the smell of chlorine you brought into the room
I surpased that by remembering how bad you were at arguing as you walked in with a subtle smile and complete exhaustion in your eyes

I cowered into my books during study afraid to ask you for help as your focus could have intimidated einstein. I kept my doses of silence, lucky for me I had the privledge of listening to music so therefore my sanity was restored each 45 minute spent being confused

After study you became an animal probing me to join your adventures of havoc in the house I sometimes questioned how you were in the top 20 for academics but this was answered by remembering the greatest Philosophers that weren't sane at all not even in the little.

I was proud to call you my friend. Your pronounication of my nickname was incredible -- part of the reason to how it was infected into everyones vocabulary

Oh my friend whos name I shall not mention

I miss our vague chants of songs we merely heard in movies. Chants that made people feel vulnerible as your voice was completely horrid and mine exceptionaly melodic, the blend created a fine dose of old whisky
It was beautiful

(Sighs heavily)

But now my friend you are merely a fragment of nostalgia, a poem, a memory -- a lost memory
We are 365 days distant now and your reclusive persona makes me fear that our paths might not intertwine again.

Alas my old friend
Alas my lost friend

----

Leks
This is a poem to the universe
From a lost friend

— The End —