Sonnet

You don't know what it was like with no bananas,
going to the shelter at midnight in my pyjamas,...

Effigy of hearts burning
Opinion waving waves of banners,
Dire insult collides with crying...

I'm thinking about you
I can't get you out of my head
I close my eyes and still see your​...

It's all over, there never was any mystery,
I told you that you can't change the events of history...

The fountain plays and I think of yesterdays,
mist of Table mountain hung in my dreams,
short...

Painful legs, fevers high.
Ambulance just dropped by.
No air to breathe, alone and afraid....

She sips her soda water
He gulps his Ê Grino Rosso red wine
She subconsciously stays sober...

They came to the marshes where the wind blew the reeds,
where the dragonflies skimmed and the heron...

It’s called recovery
It’s not supposed to be easy
It’s about hard times and battles ahead...

Now it's spiritual, I love you in my dreams,
on the misty slopes of heaven where nothing's as it...

Was it really true? No, just myths - for what reason,
more pointedly, if it was necessary - why not...

We came from the dust, calcium for bones,
a mineralised smile, widened, embossed with silicones,...

There was Aphrodite in her nightie, so high
and mighty, who pushed the elephant so tightly,
...

Oh soul
your wounds they show
so clearly_
Streaks of joy framed through toil
...

'You were down there for so long weren't you -
what did you enjoy most: the sunshine or the girls...

'Your honour, the defendant pleads not guilty,
to intransigence, infidelity and mystery,
my...

Creation is the essence of your life.
You reborn again after being someone's wife.
Affection...