Chasing the light: Poetry collection

By Thembi Ntahane KaMahlangu

Chasing the light poetry collection 

Light does not exist independently off the dark. Illumination is the gift light brings to the dark. Chasing the light is a collection of 46 poems with a variety of themes. Each poem shedding light to a different issue. Personal experiences serve as inspiration behind this poetry collection. Find light in darkness even when you are blind. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thembi Ntahane KaMahlangu
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393758303

Book preview

DEPRESSION

Sonnet 1

The voices in my head are loud

Covering my thoughts like a cloud.

I can't listen to the voice

Deep within helping me to make my own choice.

I don't recognise the voices I hear

Whispering in my ear

Burying mine deep within.

In the loud crowd of confusion

It whispers in the background conclusion.

The soul wants what it wants

Or else it creates a black hole

That swallows me whole.

All emotions thrown into the abyss

Just a hole Echoing despair.

Sonnet 3

There is no sound

Louder than silence with no one around.

Talks turning into screams

It sure feels like a dream.

An elision to elude the mind

An organ that is just blind.

Though the colonisers are real

I wish you could feel

Just how loud they get

When no one is around yet

Silence echoes in my ear

The colonisers rejoice I hear

In silence, solitude they find

Even I seized to mind.

Sonnet 4

The hole in me just cried for its missing piece

Just when I thought my heart was finally at peace.

The pain just pealed over the blood clot of my scar

Blood pouring from a hollow pit afar

I felt emptiness beating my ribcage harder

My soul echoing pain, scarred.

This valley is crying for the love unknown

Calling for affection never shown.

The words mama just fall on the tip of my tongue

For the first time it means something

I never held on to it even when I was young

To me it never meant anything

Yet here I am wondering how it feels

To spit just this simple word: mama.

I kissed the angel of death

I looked into his calm eyes

He looked into my troubled soul

Seduced me with his crystal-clear eyeballs

I longed to see through them

I desired to make them my own

Like calm ocean waves

They breathed a soft breeze

Into my humbled souls

Calmed the storm

That was brewing inside

Not aware,

I was hooked

I reached for the pile of pill next to me

Like a slide show

I was now looking at

A beautiful sunset

Scattering leftover sunrays

I felt my body drift to oblivion

My troubled soul

Teleport into an alternate universe

I had committed the felony

Of kissing the angel of