Forgive me

Forgive me for not keeping my promise.

I said i love you

I will never leave you

I will never be like the other guys

I said i wanna marry you

Raise kids with you

Raise them in a home filled with love

Where me and you will see alike

Where you will be my spine,neck and i the head

Where we will be one till death do us apart

I lied

I was just a boy then

Everything was just in my empty head

The only thing i saw was that nice legs you had

I had all the poetic words any woman wanted to hear

Now i am a man

I see the wrongs i have done

Forgive me

I cant change the past

It was your lesson

I was the teacher

You were my student

The only difference is you passed

I failed

Now i have regrets

I can`t even sleep properly at night

Each bit i take is hard to swallow

I am not sure if you are even coping

The baggage i left with you and your husband is hard to imagine

I can`t even call to say sorry

I can`t even call to say hi to my child because he does not know me.

Forgive me for not keeping my promise

Umhlaziyi Ozimele

Sandile Mngadi