None

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in these moments

we

find

ourselves

saying that

none

of it really mattered

,

That it was only one time

and that time

will make it feel slightly better

,

Saying that

all those things

won’t matter anymore

;

And then we find ourselves

awake

at half-past four

in those moments

That find us

,

As if

we

don’t really matter

 

© Hudson Biko

 

Control

they say that sometimes we have to let some things go

that we can’t really do

all of this

all by ourselves

that our shells

can only hold onto

the fragments

of constituents

buried deep within the parts of us we never really want to reach

or the parts of us they expect us to keep holding onto

they tell us that sometimes

trying to

Control

everything

leaves us controlling

nothing

And maybe they’re right

Maybe all of we have left

won’t be enough

And we find ourselves buried

deep within

fragments of our constituents

Asking them to hold on to us

;

But maybe

just maybe

All we ever want to control

is nothing

And maybe

just maybe

that’s enough.

 

© Hudson Biko

 

He IV

He came in.

And like a

First-time

Apprentice

Lost in-time

He could only sit

there

on seats

slowly shredding

in rooms heading

to ends

Pending

more.

As words

poured out into a world

ready for their ramifications

as he choked on his own misconceptions

we watched fall into rooms

of ambiguity

Before

they began

to slowly shred

away to-times

he was always lost in.

 

© Hudson Biko