Love Poem: Parting Waters
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Written by: Thabang Ngoma

Parting Waters

I’m thankful for your tears
For they have made me tender
The heartfelt love over the years
Do I deserve any of it, I wonder?

You could halt me like rumbling thunder
Inundate my shallowness like a burst dam
I could have drowned had I stayed under 
Oh how I regret having caused them

I behaved as though you didn’t matter
Meanwhile you were crying an ocean
Night and day, praying for an ever after
Parting waters for a fool’s devotion