Wednesday, 4 June 2025

To Olo Mongale

she was here, 

the girl was here.

mmmh…

Looks staunch, looks like courage, she was saying : it actually is war. 

wrangling madness in a car.

Fighting.

Strong.

Eventually falling,

…Yhoo Olo’

she was here…

and warned women: 

 of the insufficiency of even perfect caution…

& the predatory tendencies of their sauve madness…

I have nothing to say, 

But to observe, come to anger & sit here

& protest through soft text, 

about the fault in the masculine,

women remain receivers of their many perpetrations, 

from even men beloved of the loudest merit, …

These sauve monsters were/are brandishing relentless war, 

inciting unimaginable grief…

And they sit there, 

with many entitled to the very life they extinguish in women 


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many mental extremes abound here…

every year, history recycles the trauma, 

and we’ve been crying over these injustices, 

like harassed skeletons in the Republic 


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…I pray there’s a collective masculine urge 

to resolve the crises arriving with the violence they perpetrate…

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& that the feminine voice may continue  to rise, 

with even more wailing TO GOD! TO GOD!

& in our  mutual (feminine) grief …

to persist in our praying,

To herald comfort for even our children, 

For a better South Africa & a better world…

***sigh***

…& even in this righteous delusion 

and truly toxic uncertainty

of a nation under masculine siege, 

I hope, 

…we herald (pray) anyway ✊🏿

Oh! that we keep on praying! 

To Modimo Olorato! 

  

Rest in peace Olorato Mongale ❤️

Sunday, 20 October 2024

Gracious tempest

 

Like hypocrites at the synagogue,

the heart is extremely wearied

by its moral performance, 

at the pews, I carry the 

the obedience of troubled evils

measuring the worthiness of my tired attempts , 

crying & wishing that by my concerted olympics,

and the resume of my prudish heart

I may be vindicated into the heavenly paradise.


At the centre of my supplications: 

My moral strength & 

many delusions of beauty…


Rescue my heart, 

heal it from its schemes of salvation,

and in prayer, 

by your deep compassion for me,

Immerse my growth,

Strictly & only in Christ…

and when I relapse again, 

with disproportionate mourning over 

the errors of my heart,

touch me tenderly in my conscience,

encourage me to achieve not the moral ambition of the  will (power)


but cause me to find you again

in quiet repentance & grace,

and with every sobering encounter,

elevate my wisdom of YOU, 

So I may live the rest of my days,

in reverent fear.

From trial to trial,

grief to grief,

death to death,

Gracious tempest,

I am your child,

Saved, forever & always, 

in your name, and your name alone. 


Sunday, 22 September 2024

God’s prodigal

 the tides are sweeping over your child,

she gives herself to the currents, 

fights no more, 

the unimaginable might 

of the waters…


For sweet reprieves promised her at the pews,

she will no longer extend her hands,

the child has hoped, and hoped enough 

against many odds…


she  grieves the rescinding of the heavenly path:

her prayerlessness…

but she no longer wishes to

mind the tempers of the Word


and so she releases…

goes away…

and resides further into the empty, 

opening the void more & more…


mourning the absence of a God she loves,

convicted  by the gloating of many enemies,

dead & banished from the light.

but she returns ever tired, again & again to Throne 

 

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And by ordained luck,

won in Golgotha, 

to one day,

stand in the eternal feast,

amongst angels & the saints, 

praising the Nazarene 

for the promised salvation,

the full presence of the trinity,

& the accusation of none…


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZC3EbH6iE

Saturday, 3 February 2024

Existential tantrums, a wailing & theological harassment

 

*This is an ode to the living i.e., 

*to the trying.

*to the fighting 

*to the eventually tired

* may you keep receiving Christ 



Father, I am unwell,

...a woman & 34 years old,

So my body is entitled to its existential tantrums


This now, is my little revelation:

I am passing away

along with my indiscretions & moral success...


there are many many tears here,

those encumbering attempts 

of a church-going sinner


dying here, 

withering away,

the coming of another wilderness 


There's a wailing here

From the pews to Yeshua ears :

My lamentations & eventual silence.


*there are many many tears here


Let me wrestle you, 

Fight you, 

in Your Holy pages, harass me there


 & let me endure

the theological chastening  

Until I receive...


...the Nazarene. 


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DivUb1K0B0zE&ved=2ahUKEwiuyYWAj5GEAxXXU0EAHbd9B3EQwqsBegQIDhAG&usg=AOvVaw0vuIWXiViDuGtma5KYPOp6













Monday, 30 October 2023

A simple epiphany

Father, the heart, 

the heart , 

the heart lingers a lot longer 

in these troubled palpitations…


…the mind,

the mind surrenders its panicked wisdom 

to your loving word…


but there are damned enemies,

living here with ungodly intentions

fighting the progress of Virtue  


Like decent hyenas in the pit, 

we sit together, to herald : 

the coming of peace & insults alike…


in this righteous chaos, 

Deep in this valley, we reside 

with deluded & noble ambitions alike  


A special madness…

“Only prayer can drive this kind out” ~ JC

Mark 9:29


JC = Jesus Christ 


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jbO9STGoM