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Motive

A Poem by BetanuZwei

Please don't thinkulterior motive.Every hug and every smileEvery laugh and every tear.I hug you because I love you.We smile and laugh and cry together..

Curtains and Toast

A Poem by BetanuZwei

open curtainsgrey againburn the toastmiss the busforget booksripped jeanswonder whyforget younever forget youhug youlose youmiss youkiss youcant kiss ..

Just life here on the savannah grass plains

A Poem by BetanuZwei

Black Kohl eyes and paper white skinflowing buttercup locksand keys embedded in cushion hands.Gravelled voice box and icicle teethfast food on the run..

Hangover

A Poem by BetanuZwei

I want to be your fingernailsProtect your long and slender digitsthose soft caressesI long to rest atop your passionate mindYour hair is so lucky to f..

Scrapings on the wall

A Poem by BetanuZwei

there are scrapings on the walla different languagealmosta history encased in tearsand scratchesalmostthis foreign tongue speaks volumesyet is silent ..

A Counter-Balance of History

A Poem by BetanuZwei

I thought I had won the warWhen you showed up here the other night.Though your eyes were blank and skin was foreign as a distant shore.I thought that ..

Asylum

A Poem by BetanuZwei

A room.Four walls, all white, though not padded.A small window and a door, safety glass.Not quite what you had hoped for but yet,there is a bed,and yo..

Movie star, so glamourous

A Poem by BetanuZwei

I remember when she walked through the doorso out of placeby the water cooler and breathing inour photocopier ozone.She could have been a movie star, ..

Finger painting

A Poem by BetanuZwei

We used to paint together,reds and blues and greens and pinks,always pink.We had blobs for bodies and stick-men arms,holding hands. And the treealways..

I need your heart to jump-start mine

A Poem by BetanuZwei

I can't remember a timeWhen my heart could beat without yours.When oxygen was essential for me to live.When I could lie in bed all day without your ha..