Privilege
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu “couldn’t last a second in my shoes”She said. So i tried it, found ‘twassomething i would never understandGod cursed me to live a lifeprotected by my foreskin…
Bongani Kigundu
Humble
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu Pay me no mind nor my wild scribblings they cause you no harm nor do they look to harm, harm is far from home or at least I think it is. Pay me no mind nor my wild scribblings they cause you no harm nor do they look
Nest
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu You, ground me. I live my life frantically flying around flapping myself up into a fury so that when around You i can be calmed i can rest & breathe Breathe…
Hustle
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu There’s a mist in the city this Autumn, it’s unusual for this time of the year. Spotted a Man working hard, descending is others a lineage of workers breathing harder filling the air with their DREAMS
Burnt
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu blinking became risky, each shutter a shot blasting my brain with bliss temporarily. I was in hell, losing a battle held over a 1000 memories. Now retaliating, my heavy mind won’t surrender. Slipping seems easy and I desperately want to, away behind my eyelids silently into the night.
Maybe
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu Maybe I want a child more than I want a wife so finally I can be in a relationship selfishly where they love me unconditionally without knowing fully the failures of my past chasing them from my heart maybe just maybe…….
Heir to my rainbow
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu As the sun struggles to wake up, the realisation hits me that my life was always black and white. Hues of grey fog my eyes like cataracts, and each morning I fight to wipe the sleet from my eyes. Darkness strangling me from inside, I struggle to awake
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DRUNK
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu This melanin body was never meant to find answers at the bottom of a brown liquid. Instead it would turn insides darker than the skin that covers it. Reflect Instead of making your insides darker than the skin that covers it, Your melanin body deserves more than what’s
FORT
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu I built a fort last night cuddled myself into layers of pillows surrounding me in comfort & just enough strength to withstand the anxieties of the world walls to keep safety & to remind me of times where my only worries were how late will it be
LOST
– A Poem by Bongani Kigundu I was planted under a Baganda rooftop which fell in a Xhosa home. Which am I? Germinated & fertilised to speak languages vastly foreign to both my parents Distant to my mother seed & “me”… Languages from as far as Europe. Watered by traditions from those all around