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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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