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Written with the Blood of a Poet: A Tale

of Adulterous Love

Relebogile Kgalane

Bright-red life inked out from a heart

with an untold story

A tale if spoken would lead to many a song

tainted with a melody sorry
With incoherent scribbling

it echoes a language

purer than the morning snow

Yet hushed in parables and riddles

to steer away Strife's crushing blow

This tale of guilt is tainted by the stain

of the unreliability of Drunk Time

If told to unbelievers,

an inquisition of hypocrisy would mar the sublime

And yet it speaks,

defying gods and fate, fortune and hell,
and in our heart it dwells, And will forever echo

when in death our mortal bodies shall be

but lifeless shells

Of blood and love,

a poet shall his innermost being reveal
Of life and reality,

my blood shall this tale in the metaphysical conceal

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