Written piece
HOPEFUL
Ompatile Thabo Manake
Botswana
About this piece
HOPEFUL poem is about perseverance in life, interesting part of life mentioned in this poem is that Love connects us all, it is a universal language that we all can hear and understand most importantly through the heart.
1.HOPEFUL
The sweet melody we hear,
In the morning, and,
The bad memory we bear,
When we mourning, ends,
We forget, there’s sunshine
There is a thin line,
Between love and pain
But don’t believe a lie
That there will be no rain, because,
Sunrays are for the clouds gain
Drip and drizzle are the Hope
Like a protruding seedling
We eagerly wait for harvest
We hopeful for the best
Through the worst we still progress
Like a thread through a needle
Ready to move through a fabric
New or torn, it clings the two
The torn becomes new
As stitches are the Hope
Pain may pierce through us
With love engraved in us
That’s what makes us,us
You,me,them equals us
Mend forever through heart
The sweet melody, the bad memory
Can’t detach nor destroy us
Stronger in heart
United through art
Born from the land of Love
2. COMPASSIONATE FLOW
Holding by a thread
Is and will never be the end
Like pingpong,we, I describe
We,I define, real bounce back
We, I don’t entertain frown, but smile
From south to north, rare compassionate flow
Love speaks, flows, in our bloodstream
From the streets of Gaborone
To the heat of Kgalagadi
The stream of makgadikgadi
The pond at shadishadi
The shaking reed of Okavango
Which is not only a delta
It’s sparkle resemble the matter
We sincerely mine with pride
My Botswana, love of Africa
Botswana, pure strong breed like an Ox
Enlightened and smart like a fox
Delivering aesthetic fabric of metaphorical thoughts
Like love embedded motherboard…