Love Poem: Once
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Written by: Thabang Ngoma

Once

Just because I need love
You think that I am weak
Just because I have a heart
You think that I can break

A mountain once stood
Where the Titanic sank
And a scorpion king rules
Desert remains of a rusted tank

Since you fell from the sky
The wind haunts your wings
Your nest once a warm egg
Is now a scrambled thundering

The fall burn up all to char
And reduce all in your rise
Tsunamis inundate the shoreline
To bring us all to our knees

Eyes fill will her fuming
The blue horizon black and red
What to become of her seedling
The green earth now bled

Just because I need love
You think that I am weak
Just because I have a heart
You think that I can break