FROM ME TO TO LOVE


By Smith Khethisa

African woman Golden heart and diamond thoughts, African woman platinum personality and titanium indurance, African woman your love flowing crudely into my heart, African woman sweet smile like Congolese mangoes, African woman who am I in your mecury soul river, African woman, Lilly of the buffalo hills, African woman, thorn rose bush of Moshoeshoe's garden, bloom for my eyes and spread your aroma across Letsie's valley, spread your wings eagle of Thabana Nt

lenyana, your love is of high altitude I can never reach, spread your wings for the Drakensberg Mo-kahare is not enough for you, African woman I can never have enough words to describe you for you are an oceanic soul. 

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