APART
With: Macdonald Sekgoma; Sifiso Mtshali and Goitsimang Peace Aphane
Together we await the train of love
In the station of our hearts
And inside our souls huddle in
but our minds go opposite directions.
Is it love, is it love?
I thought our relationship was strong like the titanium tower
I thought with you I’m over the moon
like being on top of Kilimanjaro
The depth of our love was high like Mount Everest
Though it is sinking like the Titanic
Drowning in a cyclone of an ocean storm
screaming for help
in a confidential voice that none of us can hear.
Slowly and slowly our hearts dispatched
Love, the clanging cymbal chains calls for our unity
But no!
Who knew hope has a dead end?
How then I ache
When by error, recalls
What memory and heart
Deep within, there archives
Of those emotions, in tempest set
And those eyes, radiating fiery passion
And who deep in them, ourselves saw
Twirling in those, holy grounds
Where our bodies in one, gracefully danced
With both our lips, locked into one
And both our hands, as one bound
And both our hearts, made all but one
For between us, number there was slain
How then I ache, when by error recalls
What remembrance keeps, which my heart
In sadness drowns and deeply sears
Who knew the same amount of time
I spent thinking
about you would be the same amount of time I use to hurt and regret?
The poison of evil thoughts you fed my heart
and make it doubt the existence of love or anything related to it.
I want you to wish we never existed,
the only favour I ask for you to forget me–
because only I have the right to remember
and hurt over you since its my heart you broke
and not the other way.
Let me then, cry no more
As these songs of redemption, in pain are sung
Of those joys, long forgotten
And my heart, in pieces torn
That fleeting beauty, in permanent absent
And my soul away, to that bottomless pit dragged
And there left, without warmth or care
But only in sorrow, there cast
Let me then, cry no more
As these songs of redemption, in sincerity are sung
Tormenting my heart, with those joys
That like the stars, faded with the light of day.
