Language

Mlweni, Sanibonani, Dumelani, Guemadag, Mwiriwe, Moro and Good day

What is a language?

Is it what your mother gave you?

Maybe your father?

Why abandon what your blood

gave you?

But when I think back

I remember my grandma use to tell me

When you know too many you know the world

You know people

But again I ask why know too many forget

What that woman gave you, the one

You so call a mother.

Know but don't forget

what you got from that woman

Your mother tongue is

the most precious gift

You get to take wherever you go

and

THAT IS A LANGUAGE

-Ciza Sylvane

The Nightmare

The dream I had
was not a dream

A dream
I could see myself
climbing trees

Trees that never stopped to grow
Running was unstoppable
Sweat was all over my body
swimming in the deepest ocean

Animals chased me through
the unknown way

Where can I go?
Where can I hide?
What can I do?

I stopped, helpless
After all,
it wasn't a dream
it was a nightmare

It got worse
Trees grew fast
The road had no end
The sweat drip-ling like
tap water

The ocean became deeper
Animals were a different kind of them
I didn't know what to do

I screamed
I called names I didn't know
After all ...
I was just in bed.

-Ciza Sylvane

Why Get Away?

I was told get away,
I grew up knowing get away,
they said be happy to get away,
but I don't understand:
WHY GET AWAY?

I heard get away,
they said get away,
talked the language get away,
maybe they came from a planet named
get away,

Their walk was get away
but I don't understand
WHY GET AWAY?

Her look was get away,
his touch was get away,
their heart was get away,
their minds could tell
get away

Love was not LOVE but was get away,
sounds were no more music
but were get away,
please make me understand:
WHY GET AWAY?

-Ciza Sylvane

If You Knew How Much I Love You

I don't think you know
how much I love you
You could never know
how I feel when I'm around you

how my heart skips a beat
how my mouth gets scratchy
how i feel like I'm about to faint
when i see you smile
that dazzling smile

How I feel sea sick when you
kiss my lips tenderly
but with aggression
that only you could possess

How my ears burn
when you tell me you love me
how my body melts like chocolate on a summer day
when you hug me

How i feel like I'm swimming in an ocean
when you wrap your arms around me and hold me

If you knew
Gosh, if you only knew
You know that I love you
I tell you every day

But I wish you could touch my heart
and feel the heat that rises through it
Then you would have a LITTLE clue
what I feel any time I'm around you

It's like you have this aura
that has enchanted me
as if you spilled a love spell on me
that makes me love you every day
more and more

A potion that makes me feel
like I'm the only one in the world
when you're next to me

If only you knew
And I hope one day you do know

-Ciza Sylvane

I Give You a Heart

I don't know what to say
or what to get you
because I cannot afford
to buy you a car

But I can give you my heart
This is very big
and greater than a car

I give you a heart
I don't know what is in my heart
but I give you a heart

Sometimes I feel something
strike me
I don't know what it is
but I give you a heart

Is this love or what?
I don't know
but I give you a heart

I wonder to myself
What can it be
but I give you a heart

Maybe I love you
but I give you a heart

-Ciza Sylvane

Who Are You?

Who are you?
I thought I knew you
I thought I was able to
describe who you are

You know me, but
I don't know you
Where are you from?
What is your personality?
What kind of person are you?

I thought I knew deep inside you
I thought I knew your heart
but I fooled myself with
all that I gave you

Who can you be?
Why are you here?
I don't know you anymore
Get away from me
I don't know you

WHO ARE YOU?

-Ciza Sylvane

Mother

Mother, how far are you?
Where could you be?
How long do you have to take?
OH! Mother

When will I meet you, and
how will I see you?
My eyes are eager to see you
My hand desires to feel you
OH! Mother

I'm falling in love
but I don't know where you are
My heart falls for you so long
It hadn't felt the mother's love
OH! Mother

I need you, need you
right here by my side
I need to know mother's way
My feet need to take
the same path you took
OH! Mother

I need you
OH! MOTHER

-Ciza Sylvane

Everything Is Nothing

Wherever I go

I hear cries

Every way

that I pass through

I hear cries.

I went to America, where

I thought it was a better place

but I couldn't stand the tears of people

I was in France, where

I could think it was a little better

but it was like going through people's watery eyes

They cried for everything

you see

some with big beautiful cars

but you'll hear them say,

"I want two more cars."

Women with two girls or boys,

but you will hear voices that say,

"One boy and one girl is better."

People have honors but they want a Ph.D.

Everything that you ask for is nothing.

Whatever money you have will be gone in a split second.

What everyone has in a split second will be gone.

EVERYTHING IS NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING!!!

-Ciza Sylvane

ATransporting Dream

I find myself in the place
that is unknown.
Where could this place be?
I ask myself.
Things are so beautiful,
things I didn't see before
but when I look to at myself, I see things
that I have dreamed of,
things I wanted to be.
the First thing that came into my mind
was that: I am in another world,
a new world, where I had never been.

I could feel the precious wind blowing on me.
I could feel myself floating in the air.
Things I saw were different
from things that I know now.
Who was I at that time?
Life felt new to me.
I had changed.I was so different
from where I am now.
After all, I felt happiness
flowing inside me, and
I knew that I had achieved.
Ciza Sylvane

I Was Blind

Once l was blind
I was blind to see what
was happening.

I couldn't feel it
My blindness was too bad
to even realise that
I was being abused.

I was too blind
to even feel that I was hurt
I couldn't feel the pain ...
That pain was nothing to me.

Loving was the most important thing
in that life of mine
I was blind to even smell that
I was in pain.

The pain I went through -
someone told me about it, but
I was too blind to listen to it.

Someone tried to show me, but
I was even too blind to see
what I was shown.
I was made blind.

Who made me blind?
Why have you made me blind?
Where are you?
What have I done to deserve this?
Who are you?

Whoever you are, you have
made my heart blind,
but I am not blind.

I will not go down,
but I will always be up.

-Ciza Sylvane

Why Was I Born?

Was I born to be good,
or was I born to be bad?

Is there any purpose
for me to be here?
Was I born for a purpose,
or for no purpose at all?

If there is a purpose for my life,
what is that purpose?
What am I living for?

How many difficulties does my life
still need to go through?
When will I reach my dream?
How will I get there?
Where does my future lie?
Will I ever get there?

WHY WAS I BORN?

-Ciza Sylvane