Pure thoughts with Nomvula Motlhoiwa

Removed from my sight, tattooed in my heart. Often in life our loved ones are removed from our sight and we get to deal with the lose. Society requires you to mourn for a week bury your loved one and move on, cry they say for it truly helps you heal quickly, but how do I mourn you for a week, how do I stop crying, how do I become happy knowing that you no more, how do I sleep at night when it feels like nightmare and the lil kid inside of me is scared to even close my eyes? Well you may be gone from my sight but know that you tattooed in my heart, every heart beat is dedicated to you, now all I wanna do is close my eyes for my mind plays happy memories of you and they don't live like people do they won't just come and go. Your name is tattooed in my heart and my heart beats rhymes to the rhythm of your name, while echo sounds of it play in my mind like that song we used to dance for hoping and praying it never ends.  They say I walk in your foot steps but they fo...

Come back piece, titled respond from the lost generation. We the children of the so called breakthrough generation, as they fought for freedom and gained democracy. Sad part is we are named the lost generation for what we do in the naked eye seems to be lost, while they forget the hardships they post on us. They say we drink like crazy and party like there's no tomorrow, maybe we trying to forget the pain within. They say we lazy and don't want to work but they not hiring us, see they forget that school ended ka form 10 and boom you hired, while we still have to graduate with diplomas to only be able to earn 8grand. When the price of bread is 20rands and they expect ngwanaka will help me pay my bills. They say we the lost generation and there is no tomorrow for us, but they forget that our tomorrow is today, our today is yesterday and our yesterday is our future, simply meaning that what we really desire is saved for the future and what we focus on is what the so cal...