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Marcia Nonkululeko Tladi

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Poem "Loveless Day":
- written March 2007
- published March 14, 2008
- viewed 284 times

Other poems by Marcia Nonkululeko Tladi:
»A child called hope«
»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«
»Magic carpet of dreams«
»Temptation«
»Unfinished Story«
»Were the world mine to change«
»You Find Me«


»Loveless Day«

by Marcia Nonkululeko Tladi

Should your winds of love one day fall
No longer caress my face
Or stroke the tree
Whistling its leaves a melody
Your eye cease behold my beauty
Should the music of your violins tear its strings from my ears
The birds a tune forget

I?ll ?tell the moon to wait
Tell the sun to linger?*
If this day were to rest forgone
And the sea swallow the sun
The new morn rise with you no longer by my side
What a dreaded day would be remembered

Should your kiss no longer seek my neck
Your hand escape the small of my back
I?ll fall to my knees and beg time to hault
Its horns to lock and refuse to move
I?ll stretch my hand and sink the stars
While begging the sun to rest aloof
So you may see the deeps of my eyes
In them a hope clinging fast

Should you let the chin of the sun
Scorch the surface of the ocean setting
The waters to burn alight with the bow of the sky-torch
Set my heart on flames to rid it happiness
What a dreaded day that should be

For if this day were to end
And it were to be as if you knew me not
A dream cascading to its end
Forever once and now, an untouchable fantasy
I?ll never believe in love again
The day remembered lovelessly
The bellow of a sad cello trap my smile


I?ll ?tell the moon to wait
Beg the sun to linger?*
I?ll cast a spell
To hang the light of day

I?d rather see this day not come
Than see it go with you
The memory of me awash in the seas of your lovepits
You will remember that you love me
God I pray, you will remember

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