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Marcia Nonkululeko Tladi

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Poem "A child called hope":
- published October 16, 2006
- viewed 697 times

Other poems by Marcia Nonkululeko Tladi:
»Come and make it rain«
»Dear Death«
»Find no solace in suicide«
»Girl from Mozambique«
»I Am A River«
»I am not complaining«
»I love Poetry«
»I won't stop writing«
»Loveless Day«
»Magic carpet of dreams«
»Temptation«
»Unfinished Story«
»Were the world mine to change«
»You Find Me«


»A child called hope«

by Marcia Nonkululeko Tladi

This one is irreversible
I don?t have hope
No disillusions
It will never be okay
This truth is blunt
It cuts deeply
No misconceptions
I will never see her again

What is hope
But a dream
Too perfectly round
To be sincere
Hope a suitor of pain
False promising
Fast dwindling
In cowardice
At the face of reality

I continue to nurture
A child called hope
Raise her upon my bosom
With the love of a mother
To a child discarded

If my child will grow
And leave and desert
Never looking back
To see my face
And if I never
Will see my sister
In heaven
An angel she?d be I pray
For now I?ll take the chance
And hope and hope
We?ll meet again someday

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