Ofentse Mercy Hajane (The Dark So'tho Seer) Poems

Lingering upon my walls,
Motionless.
Heavy clouds of souls mixing with the water below
Cold sense ran through my blood
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I am an African child.
How do I know this?
Because I listen to sounds of life long lived.
Do not cite me any parchment of thine god,
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Love eludes me my dear.
I've yet to taste its splendor.
I've yet to thrust hard and long into its mound.
And let its wet facade cascades over its fragrant skin.
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All felt lost.
The sky was fatten by a heavy shade of red,
Screams of agony, loss, hopelessness and pain echoed through the dark icy world.
The ground was scorched,
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As dusk fast approaches,
Throughout the land of those happy to be lulled into folly.
There  stood, forever gazing like a statue, a man whose years have wrote themselves on his face.
His hands lie on the ruggged stone slab he reckon soon will be his grave.
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Africans!
Hear me now,
For unity we must avow, But alas, it's just a dream, For we're too diverse, it seems.
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You mortals are all alike, naive and foolish.
Idealistic at best, but never practical beings.
O' how frail and pitiful are your morals,
They seem to mirror your own fragility.
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O', wretched soul!
None knows of thy true form,
Or the torments that shape thee like a storm.
Once thou didst believe in a world so bright,
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We have for eons graceful strid across this savannah.
Bemused by it's sea of ever-golden grass.
Lost under the twin suns of an alien planet.
Wondering when will the day our misery be put to an end.
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Kea l'amohela bana ba lehodimo a letsho, Kea l'amohelang bara le baradi ba tsielehileng.
Ke bina ka thabo ha ke le bona.
Hobane tlas'a meriti ya ba lahle'ileng, senatla se tla tso'a ditorong tsa lona tse sothe'ileng le ditopo tse tabo'ileng.
Bao dilemong tsa kgale ba sitiwe ke ho utlwa pitso ya mahodimo a hodimo,
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