THE DREAM SHE HAD LAST NIGHT
Poem by Refilwe J Mokgatlenyane
She is being chased by her own shadow
Locked behind the bars of sin
Locked behind the dark world she cannot see
A world without stars and the moon
Her tears are black
They flow endlessly and no one hears her scream
She doesn’t know herself anymore, she is slowly losing track to her dream
Her shadow scratches her down the neck
It holds her from the back,
And she can’t run any faster
She wails,
Because whatever plan she tries to escape fails
She sees the dark she cannot escape
She sees the world where she cannot breathe
She suffocates, gasping for air
She tries to sway her hands and run away
But a voice threatens her not to dare
She still tries to run but suddenly her hands are tied tight
Someone shakes her and she can now feel it’s real
She jumps out of bed and realizes now that all that was just a bad dream
But now she falls to her knees to thank him
Him who is high above and was watching her fight in her dream
Him who helped her to win the fight, which is why she woke up
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.
