Poems from a friend

For positively inspiring me:
Kenneth Mangal (for active more than verbal support, like others did, and still do too in their capacity.)
My mother (Irene Marehwa) who encourages me by unconsciously discouraging me in her notable doubts of my abilities.
Sean Sassen, Cephas Soyapi, Methuli Ncube and Liberty Mpala; all friends of mine who speaks positively of that they see in me.
Peter, a.k.a Lonnie Siwela (my brother) who believes in me in all I do.
Faith Chauke, for always showing care and support by notifying me of her motivating observations.
Margy Chilton and Leslie Petrik continue to keep me alert of possibly unforeseen barriers and challenges.
And all those who at this moment makes “etc” a necessity.
For making this compilation a possible task, this first (thus hinting more to come), I’m more than thankful.

Stay blessed,





Misheck Siwela

A selection of my poems

1. Passion

2. I Will

3. Like Life

PASSION

Born and bred blind
Some they read.
A cul-de-sac,
Some see four ways out.

Go-getters' reality of imagination,
Remains as of imagination.
Has them,
As the so-called.
For success’ keys remains as Melchezidek.

Patience, persistence and prudence
Powerless trio P's
A hole in patience, I see
A syndrome in persistence
A deficiency in prudence

Incompletion
In their individuality.
Not so,
in their wrapping paper
Encrusted and all in action

Some call it “Of Christ”
Enabling you,
the lame to run.
I see it as the nexus thread
to the arcane pieces of success.

And if ever anything
permissible to humanity
was ever impossible,
then before passion,
God died. 

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I WILL

I'm here for you
To make the good be.

Swim so long
that seasons change,
and they find you in the sea.
Winter finds you and freezes the sea.
You won’t drown I taught you to swim

Fearing freezing to death
About to say your last prayers,
lift your face and face the sky,
Thick cloud hanging over you.
You listen;

Listen, the cracking sound
Turn and see,
sun rays radiating coming to you.
Though unable to melt all the sea,
but your entire path; I will.

So lift your face and see
see the sun appearing and behold;
Amidst the sun,
see my face smiling.
I'll be your sun.

Though unable to do all,
with all in my ability,
I will.
I will turn your fantasies into reality
I will

In all your turbulences of the flow
I'll have you floating in the flow
Floating,
flowing to your destiny
I will.

If I can have you; again!

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Like Life

“Checkmate! There!”
“Oh-No! Just check!”
Almost!
Like life

“What a fork!”
Knight and bishop.
Save of more value to you!
Like life.

“Hey, Was on e4”
“Was-Past tense!”
Touch and move, wish you could undo.
Like life

”Thus cheating!”
“Thus en passant!”
Didn't know it; Hmm! Ignorance-no excuse
Like life.

PxQe4 “Oh damn!”
“Oh yeah! Got you-blunder”
“Checkmate!” Faked blunder-sacrificed.
Like life.

White King g1,
Array two open to the end.
White attacking, white mated.
Balance, needed balance
Like life

White has privilege,
Starts, directs the game.
Black can never.
Then fight for privilege’s gains.
Like life

“Wow! Skewer! Pin! Fork!”
White in action,
With strategies and tactics.
White mated.
Worthiness of all is in ending

Life, more like chess,
Though; never a game.