Poem: This could not be what is meant for me.

Hendrik Botha
Mar 26, 2021

“Good morning!”

Bright with hope, yet I feel spent

Renewed with anxiety replete with dread

Blame Adam, blame fathers, blame partners

yet in perdition, I toil my gardens

“Good afternoon!”

Beautiful, the malaise I cuddle.

Disturbing good the drink and coitus, I nuzzle.

Blame the government, blame the civic, blame the man

the digital ethereal’ succor leads me as a lamb

“Good evening!”

All is not quiet on my dark fronte

On bended knee, I prey my mind to blunt

“Goodbye!”

newness comes in drips and drabs

inspiration’s tonic is not sustained

transform, the will is lost.

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Hendrik Botha

For lapses in a past life my vocation is in education management; am now creating poetry for self-expression, meaning-making, social commentary and motivation