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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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