Praising

I am saying you're an elephant
'cause you struggled for me
You struggle even when you were pregnant
of me

You protected me when I was a weakling
It was like I am a king
wearing a mane
Waiting for you to call me by a name

I'll kneel for you by my knees
'cause you're the only one that feeds
me towards respect
Because of you I know how to act

You broke up with my father
because of me
My mother
You're the only one in my dreams

Mom, I want you to be proud
of me
Even if I am making the crying sound
out loud

My mother, I'll return the huge favour!

-Lloyd Hanjana

Home

I was built with cement
and painted
in different colours
which is an idea of the owners
So I have to be always dry

to follow their orders

I forgot to tell you

that my surname is ME.
YOU!
NO not me, ME
I was talking about the home
But first I have to do my homework
It's about to keep my creatures safe

My home
It was shown
to me

when I was a child
and I smiled
because I had a place called home

Did you know that my YAHOO password is HO!
I chose it because it was hard to forget
Like something that I can keep safe to a pocket

Do you have an answer

for where the name HOME came from?
Well, here is an answer:
Just add my password and my surname
Then you will find a place.

-Lloyd Hanjana

When You Said Our Love Must End

When you said our love must end
My body turned to red
And I am scared
Because if I'll lose you
I will be mad

You said our love will end
My plans of what we will do together end
And life that we should spend
I can't just sit and pretend
that the part of our life we spent
Is enough
We haven't spent a rand

we just spent a cent
of our whole life

I am not a perfect man
But I am not supporting that as a fan
Maybe I MUST GET AN AWARD
for being a coward

I said, "I love you"
because when I am with you
I feel comfortable

because you clear things
Like a sky which is blue

Please give me a clue
of what to do

I am confused?!!

-Lloyd Hanjana

Life Today II

Heroes asked for change in youth
Especially in South Africa
We as youth must change
We mustn't say who is talking at his/her age
Because they want us to stay at an acceptable stage

My brothers and sisters, we mustn't live a life ahead
Today will always be today
Today won't be the same day as yesterday
They will always be different, in different ways
Like Monday and Friday

We are not perfect
But we know how to act
And if I do something

I know what will happen next
Maybe I must say we are the expert
of causing pandemonium
There's no minimum of what we do
But there is a maximum
If you're part of the pandemonium group

JUST ASK YOURSELF ...
"Is this, what I am doing to do, right?!"

Now think twice, and share what you will do before you do it.

-Lloyd Hanjana

Born

When I was about to be born
I was hit by a stone
and was left alone
But I ready to come
and be able to say "Mum"

I asked many questions in that dark
I thought: Where I will my car park?
And how will my dog bark
at night

When I am busy setting a mark
of what I'll do
It isn't clear like a nurse's uniform

which is blue

While I was a fetus
I was thinking of my birthday
and what will I say
when my mum shouted out, "HURRAY!"

But why am I lying?
I don't even know if I was kicking
or maybe crying
I don't know more -

DO YOU?

Now please leave my poem
And rush to ask your mum
If you still have one

Anger

Who are you?
What do you really do?
For you?
Have you been a human and got abused
So now you express your feelings to the living ones?

Why do you demolish my friend's future?
It is so sore to me
when I see them fool each other
and when I try to convince them
They feel like attacking me
Then I won't know what to do
because of you

Anger
You must remember
That in December
You killed my community member
Because of a temper
That was caused by you
Anger

I hate you
For being selfish and evil
The worst thing is,

you don't give us a clue

ANGER
JUST GO AWAY
WE DON'T NEED YOU
SO I WILL ALWAYS SAY "BOO"
TO YOU
DESTROYER!!

Homeless

I thought at first I was a king
But I wasn't - I was a member
It took a lot of time to remember
After I knew, I had a feeling of anger

Anger is evil
It took me from feeling to devil
of cruelty
and it decreased my dignity
After that, it dumped me to a place called "streets"

If you have sympathy
you must help strollers by donating money
so you can bring them to their families
I'm not saying it's your responsibility
but try something to build

their feeling to be steady

I think being homeless
isn't a good thing
because you'll feel careless
and that will be your weakness
I think the president must open more business
to decrease strollers' mess

-Lloyd Hanjana

Unlike Dreams

My dreams ...
I dreamed I killed another,
which will never be my thing.
I'll plead my father to shoot me

with a sling
if I do bad thing

when I am an adult.
I will be ill.

My dream
I own it
like a ream
of papers

And dreams have layers
and thoughts of dignity
because things happen

repeatedly

I dreamed horror
and knew I was an owner
of my dreams

And please!
My favourite reader,
open your eyes

I am only talking about my feelings
that are coming out as visions
Mum, I feel eerily
about the STEADY beats
coming out pounding

THAT WAS ALL MADE BY MY SCARED FEELING
CALLED UNLIKE DREAMS

-Lloyd Hanjana

Change the World

When I become an entrepreneur
I want to be called Meneer ...
And treat family and friends fair
and others that need welfare
To clear the air

I think of being a president one day
To change the salary that employers pay
Because we are equal
To oppose the thing to have rich and poor
and open doors more

They say its easy to be poor
but its hard to be rich
Others are rich because of witchcraft
Some are rich because of hardworking
Rich people help the others
and others ask for help

YOUTH! THE NEXT GENERATION!
We have visions
And mission to achieve
And we have to be patient, PLEASE!
For others people's needs
We need to be fresh and grow
Like we were plant with seeds

As an AFRICAN child
I want to change the world
and to be not forgotten
Even if I am rotten

Lying in the GRAVEYARD
Had tried to change the world is a good thing
But decreasing dignity is bad
Because others will add
to what you've done
because you'll think you're the one
But you're small inside
and influencing other youths' minds

But YOUTH, I think it's time
To change the world
This planet is old
And we've been told
About the history

So what we will be remembered by?

Rainy Day Thoughts

Sometimes when it rains,
I think of the strollers that are feeling cold.
Others are young, and some are old.
And some are not taught and told
about the old people.
Words that are powerful,
compared to bold.

Sometimes when it rains,
I feel the pain
that unlucky people gain, every day.
Do they need to pay,
and just say, "OK?"
We are strollers; we don't have a say.

Sometimes when it rains,
I remember the day
when I won a bunch of coins.
I was ignored by my friends
who were angry.
I confronted them,
and our friendship shone again,
like it had been removed by Handy Andy.

Sometimes when it rains,
I hear a lot of Onomatopoeiu
that my sister and I hear
in different ears.
We have different ideas that appear
in our minds and in the atmosphere.

Sometimes when it rains,
I wish I could stop the rain for the homeless,
because I think it's careless
for parents to throw away their children
not knowing if they are stolen - FAST!
like a goal scored by Diego Forlan.

Sometimes when it rains,
I see droughts and floods
being spread by rain.
Even if its dark,
it doesn't even know where they will park.
OH, NO!
Here it comes,
with its destroying fluid.

-Lloyd Hanjana

My Second Rap

I live in Mitchell's Plain ...
that's not my aim
When I'm 'bout to rap,
you don't know what's fair
Nigga', just listen ...
I'm about to play

You don't even know my name
I'm in pain
I'll transfer my eager
and crush that plane

Let me go!
You'll just stay
And go away!
Go away!
Go away!
WHOA!

Hey, all -
I'm repeating this show
I will rap alone ...
just don't keep on going

I want you to hear this before I'm gone
Baby girl, you should visit me
I'm home alone
Mum, don't hit her
She was 'bout to get a ball
But baby, she could've long ago!

Mum, you're making a noise like an owl,
and you're so big,
like a capital letter "O" ...
NO!

I'm number one
This industry is mine
Nigga', just listen
I'm almost done ...
Please don't shoot me!

Take this ... it wiil be fine
Tomorrow, you would be saying goodbye
You need this money to buy JIVE
"Nigga', we are done; lets bounce" ...
OUCH!

-Lloyd Hanjana

Life Today

Why are we different?
Why do we have good and bad?
Why do we have to die?
Or maybe we must lie,
and let others cry.

Why do we kill?
Must we be ill,
and let gangsters chill?
Saying they are hot like chili ...
and robbing banks
and that they got their bills.

Life has missions,
and people have visions.
We must be speaking,
and not joking ...

'CAUSE I'M SEEING A SKY THAT HAS AN ENDING.

-Lloyd Hanjana

My Rap

I got this feeling ...
Feelin' of being cold when it's hot
The feeling of being hot whether it's cold or not
The thing of being useless 'cause I don't play any sport
I don't like gangsters 'cause I don't wanna' get shot
(and be famous when my body's gone)

People gettin' ice cream 'cause they got a cone
Nigga!
You're sweating, even if you're playin' a zone
Don't dunk; you'll break your bone
Oh!

I don't wanna' hit you with this chain
'cause I don't wan' ya' sitting with pain
'cause I'm tired of an exercise called "aim"
I don't even know your name
Bring this game
'cause yesterday I came with my friends
in Mitchell's plain -
where girls are krump killers
and boys are drug dealers
Oh!

Can I have your attention?
Attention, please!
I have somethin' to mention
about a mission
in a vision
I'm reading city vision
in a station

I would like to eat a chicken
It's like I'm eatin' and sleepin'
and ready for a "hello" in the morning

-Lloyd Hanjana

Tree

Tree is a supplier
Tree is a provider
It helps people to live
and to breathe

It provides with goods
It is a home for animals
It protects some insects
and gives animals shadow when it's hot

It supplies wood to people
for them to make tables
It supplies paper
for us to write on

Some coals come from it
for us to have electricity
It supplies Xhosa people with medicine
for us to live

TREE, YOU ARE HELPFUL!

-Lloyd Hanjana

Ball

My name is B
and my surname is all
I don't like to be kicked, but I can't help it
'cause my birth certificate tells me
that my name is BALL

They don't have sympathy
'cause I can't cry, but I'm angry
I must be steady
to make others happy
and I keep friends for myself
for not being lonely

I decide for teams in the field
I do so emotionally
I know that I can't speak
They blame me
(they say I'm too weak)

I'm too famous ...
even the president kicks me

-Lloyd Hanjana