Page 11 - LockDown Poetry

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The First Line

Masingita Mzilikazi

You reminded me of poetry

Of life taking form

Breath caressed by margins

Death is a poem, I imagine

You reminded me to write

To remember you

To immortalise your smile

The contrast in your eye

I offer you my next line

My all too familiar lie

Here with me, lie

Let’s wake up in a line

Upheld by a reader’s eye

Unawares, fanning our love

You missed the first line

The ultimate sacrifice

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