SHE BROKE HEARTS BUT EARNED CUTS
Poem by Refilwe J. Mokgatlenyane
She was young and naïve
Growing without love drove her to look for it in the wildest of places
She got lost between finding love that is worth the price and just lust for the beautiful faces
And she met one devil’s angel, ready to devour her innocent little soul
She never knew of love from the right ones, so she found comfort in a stranger
She dug for love in the deepest of places and never knew she was approaching danger
Like an infant when it sees milk, she opened up her whole heart
She gave in with all her might
What she thought she found was love but it was like she put her tiny hand inside the mouth of a venomous snake
And was going to earn a toxic bite
His eyes were flames
But she was even more ready to come closer because she fell in love with the heat
She trusted a stranger, a man who told her he loves her, and his handsome smile set her heart pacing
A man who with a single touch sent electrical impulses buzzing around her whole body that she sweated like a dog panting
A man who bought her with armada
A man who gave her a fake ring and made her dream about weddings and cake pudding
A man who made her forget about the dream life she owed herself
She gave her heart to a man who erased her ambitions and sold her dreams
His eyes were flames
That they burnt down her definition of pride into fossils and sucked up all the fuel
They set her tiny body on fire and burnt away her innocence for he was very cruel
His eyes were flames that burnt her little heart into nothing but ash
His eyes were flames that swept away the purity of her soul and left her nothing but trash
Refilwe Mokgatlenyane is a young writer, an aspiring entrepreneur and an LLB student at the University of Botswana. Her writing journey has started way back since she was 9 years old, she started off as a short story writer and changed to novels and later on started specialising more on poetry writing.
