Lidvume lengca

Nali letfwele liyahashatela

Lengca tonkhe tihosha licondze la liyashashabula

 selivele liphansi letfwele 

Ngihleti ngedvwa ngeswele

Ngihleti ngedvwa umoya ukhatsatekile

Ingcondvo isangene ikhungatsekile

Ngiphila kalukhuni imphilo iyangiphicaphica

Liyamanyata nemafu amnyama ayangifica 

Liyagagabula liyagcoba likhafula emalangabi 

Lidvume lengca 

Lengca netilimo nemiphefumulo yalabanye

Ligadla ngemandla lihambe libuye

Libuye nebantfwabalo 

Lalandza lalandzisisa

 Ngalibuka letfwele ngalibukisisa

Ngatibuta ngatiphendvula ngivisisa

Leni nje siphatsane kanjena?

Ngikwenteni na?

Inkinga ikuphi?

Ngalamanye emalanga ngiyehluleka kutibamba

Titsi chu! 

Njengumfula tinyembeti tigelete 

Ngihlehlele emuva ngitidedele 

Ngikhongetele ngigeze ebumnyameni

Lidvume lengca

Labalati kancono batsi liyadvuma lengce kubencono

Labangati kancono batsi nginawo emandla ekwenta konkhe kubencono

Ibebovu indlela ngihambe

Bubeluhlata klaba! tjani iye emadlelweni imfuyo ihambe 

Shonamalanga lidvume lihambe

Lidvume lengca

Ematje nemagadze esangcotfo engca

Emehlweni ami libalele 

Butfongo buyehla noma sengilele 

Lidvume lengca

Lidvume lengca nebantfwabalo

Laphuma lilanga 

Ngatsamela ngakhanyisa

Lidvume lengca

Lubuyile nelutsandvo 

Lungilalele lwangipha indlebe 

Ngibambelele kulo sisobabili

Siyancokola sihleti kumnandzi sisobabili

Lungibuke emehlweni 

Injabulo ibhalwe ebusweni

Lutsandvo lutsi nalo belungasatsandzi nasengihlala ngikhala njalo

Ngite emagama ekuchaza injabulo yekubakhona kwalo

Emanceba apholile

Litsemba nenshisekelo kubuyile 

Lidvume lengca inhlitiyo ithulele

The old house

 Passion, fashion, distress 

The help, the happiness

 The bitterness 

Embedded in the walls 

The walls still standing 

The walls retain ears 

The house has not been tended for years

Before word leaks

Wild stories about the house

About the house almost being burned down 

About the house being the evil minds museum 

Someone had been living down there

Who knows how long ago or for how long?

The water still running in the washroom 

The winds still kind 

I feel heat

I feel the house’s heartbeat 

Someone’s in the house 

Skeptical and dubious 

Peeking behind the curtains 

I see my childhood, I see children 

Children transport us to our childhood 

The combats in the house I withstood 

Happiness? No, no, no, no

In this house even the turmoil was terrified 

In some places the walls moving 

My own house

I have been purified by the torment in the house

I listen to the voice inside the house

“I know I mistreated you in the past”

Revelry drowning out the cries of torment

My power grows with each phase of the moon

I am not saying that she is pretty 

This land, this house

She followed me in this life

Thou will follow me in the next

Mingle with the soil, entombed 

Breaking things

Bursting bubbles

Causing troubles

Breaking silence 

Screaming at the world

Screaming my head off

In my head, I never break your spirit

In my head, I never make you cry

I know that’s not what I am doing 

I open my eyes

I see broken things

Wrecked, lie blinded in an infirmary 

Breaking your heart

Convincing myself it’s not committing a crime

I can run but I can not lie low from breaking things

I envy you

You are changing lives

You are so good to me I know but I can not change

I am a villain with the habits of a culprit 

A crook with no thoughts of guilt

 I live my life like a desperado looking for trouble

You are so good to me I know but I can not change

You look at me with eyes full of hope

Time brings hope

Hope keeps breaking my true grit

Today I wept

Regained consciousness 

You must be so confused

I kept the wolf locked inside 

Chained and shackled inside 

Her thoughts are safer inside 

I don’t know how long I can keep her hooked inside

Breaking chains and bonds inside

 Never fetched the chance to say my last goodbye

Today I wept

It’s time to go

You with child

 I could scent that little angel the minute I walked in 

Is there anything more wonderful than the promise of a new child

Breaking the room of tears 

Her skin like peaches 

Breaking family ties

The secret is community

She sleeps through the night 

A bird in flight

Kumnyama

Ngimi lo!

Ngisele angisaboni 

Ngisele ngenta taba angisakhoni

Ngiyabeketela ngiyetama angisakhoni

Emehlweni ami kumnyama

Ngimi lo!

Ngihleti ngedvwa, kumnyama

Itolo loku bekukhanya nginelitsemba 

Lingiphilisa kumnandzi ngitetsemba

Ngibona ngiboniswa 

Libalele kukhanya ngihlonishwa

Namuhla ngisebumnyameni, kumnyama

Kumnyama angati ngitophelelaphi

Kumnyama angati ngiyositwa ngulobuyaphi

Ngimi lo!

Lingishonele lilanga, kumnyama

Ngivukile ngetama ngatikhandla

Ngatikhandla ngawo onkhe emandla

Ngivukile ngetama, kumnyama

Ngaticinisa ngaphutsata sibane, kumnyama

Ngimi lo!

Bumnyama buyangihlebela buyangehlulela

 Ngetamile kububalekela ngehluleka kububhacela

Bubuye bangihleka bulima bangihheletela

Umtfwalo wami uyesindza 

Emahlazo ami ngiyazama kuwafihla 

Emehlweni ami kumnyama

Emehlo ami akasasebenti

Kuhhohloka tinyembeti 

Umesuli wetinyembeti akabonakali, kumnyama

Inhlitiyo igaya tiboti iyabalisa, imnyama 

Ngimi lo!

Ngiyakukhumbula kukhanya

Ngiyakukhumbula malanga onkhe

Kubaluleka kwakho ngiyakubona malanga onkhe

Ngikufuna madvute nami

Ngemehlo emcondvo sengiyabona kukhanya konkhe

Ngemehlo emcondvo ayifahlaki inhlitiyo yami

Awungishiyi ungibamba ngesandla ebumnyameni

Sidanse ungicabule ngaphansi kwetinkhanyeti

Sidanse sijikelete ebumnyameni 

Sivete nelemhlatsi kungesiko ebuntfwaneni

Sifanelene sekubonakele

Sengikubonile konkhe sekwanele 

Ngiyakukhumbula kukhanya

Ngiyakukhumbula malanga onkhe

Kubaluleka kwakho ngiyakubona malanga onkhe

Ngikufuna madvute nami

Umhlaba lowukuwo

Nami ngibe kuwo