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balance.

By: Jade Novelist October 23, 2020

PoetryDating, Emotions, Feelings, Growing Up, Intimacy, Love, Love Poem, Memories, New Love, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, SexLeave a Comment

Balance is when I pay to get your hair done in the morning, only for me to grab you by the roots later that night. It’s taking you shopping for an oufit, so I can think up more reasons to strip you down. Balance is give and take, you take your seat on my lips…

smile.

By: Jade Novelist October 22, 2020

PoetryAppreciation, Courtship, Dating, Emotions, Feelings, Intimacy, Love, Love Poem, New Beginning, New Love, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, South AfricaLeave a Comment

If you’d let me, I’d like to own your smile. Not all of it, just the future memories that will bring you the most joy. I’d like to be involved in every grin and own the rights to making the whites of your teeth shine for the world. I want to be a part of…

anticipated silence.

By: Jade Novelist October 21, 2020

PoetryAfrica, Am I Next, End SARS, genocide, Pain, Sorrow, South AfricaLeave a Comment

I know it’s coming; maybe today, maybe tomorrow. After the loud of guns, the silenced tears will follow. Days start in outrage and end in signs painted in blood. How many more martyrs need to exist before we no longer need marches, how many more mothers burying daughters and fathers mourning sons before we no…