Part Of You

Part Of You

Remember when his smile was sweet

And his eyes were bright

Remember when he said he'll wait but that was a lie

Another night by his side and he made you crave his touch

Let’s get naked, he said

He made you feel you were ready then

He gave you butterflies, even down there

Life is too short and so was his patience

And even then, it was your friends who said

If you don’t give it to him, someone else will

His moisture saturated your damp lips

Then he was everywhere

Centre, wet and wild

He called it good old fashioned lovin’

“This… you cannot do with just anyone...”

“Baby, you know… I got you, I love you…”

“No one… will ever love you like I do…”

So probably God had sent him hey?

You could barely breathe then

Your body, a map for him to explore

Your diverse environments, places,

And spaces of your surface and their relations

A look on your face that could only mean

Yes-baby-please-more

Then your body began to melt

Even when you felt it was on fire

And you saw your own flames reflect in his eyes

He parted your legs like Moses parted the sea

He named your daughters after the stars and their constellations

Drops of Jupiter was a good way to get started

Let’s get it on was him pulling your pants down

Partition is how he opened your legs to a tantalising view

With hot chills on your thighs, you asked him to give you more

Just like it sounds, you all went Sensual

In the morning he left whilst you slept

You quit burning

And this, The Weekend had never prepared you for

Weeks later, he barely made time for you

And when you realised he’d made a fool out of you

It was too late, all he wanted was a part of you

The thought of you burning to his touch

And now you feel like a witch on the stack

Your clothes smell of smoke

Your flammable life and you

…catching fire easily

Prince Rayanne Chidzvondo

Cannabis Goddess

Prince Rayanne Chidzvondo

The goddess came to me in moments of need

Rolled in a dope blunt

She smiled and declared me the chosen one

If only I chose to choose her like others had done

I honour you with this blessing

Blessings like soft kisses in the evening

I will kiss you to sleep

You can make me your morning glory

Or whenever you see it fit

There’s never a moment we will miss

Of dreamers, sweet chasers and untold bliss

You must nurture me in kind

Give me love, grow me in the sun for I am the medicine the people need

She told me it won't be easy

She's been ripped out of the ground

Denied the chance to be a grower

So I must protect our secret with love

Queen of my heart when she smokes through my dark nights

Cannabis Goddess

September the 1st, 2016, Was a Night with a Full Moon

Star Gazing

This wine got me feeling tipsy,

Its 2 am and we’re on the balcony,

Reading each other’s stories

Like books without happy endings

Of conversations that bore their own lives

We nearly saw them flying, smiling

Two different corners for the papers and the blunts

Bring Bob Marley, bring Malcom

This wine is so fine it got us singing

Songs of redemption, Act

Songs of imperfection, Rye

Songs of emancipation, Rae

We learn, we all seek freedom

In our past lives, we were unrestricted

Sky high, soaring over Egyptian pyramids

Now this has felt like bondage

We are no longer at ease

Chains are all over us like the days of slavery

Mr Jailer, My keeper, My lover

This wine though

Hanging sweet on our lips

Like the kiss of the one that got away

We appreciate our nightmares, our sweetest dreams

Reality remains complex

But there is love in us, so we say

So, we feel

So, we deal with our insecurities

We laugh at our personalities

How complex, to breathe and to wait

This wine though

Is it just me or we are all feeling it?

We could all have been birds of the phoenix

Spreading our wings to be the light in all this darkness

What a way to live, we are going to die anyway

This reincarnation gate crashed the wrong party

But with us happy never ends

Only says good bye

I can’t remember its name

Let’s drink from the bottle, our un-holy grail

And we are fine with it

Pulling strings of the guitar

Like the heart was a musical instrument

I can’t sing, we all laugh

I’m a lover of things

We are okay with it

This wine though, hmm!

We watch shooting stars

I make a wish, to always have friends like this

To feel comfortable in my own skin

To lend my shoes to someone

And hear them say, it was no easy walk

To not feel judged, fake, pathetic

To look at the stars, a consolation

In this night, we belong

Just like this wine bottle was betrothed to me

I want to hold on

I’m packed with the right crowd, my friends

Friends, a word sweet sounding now

A word appealing, a word with meaning

If blood is thicker than water

Allow my whole body to be an ocean

I don’t mind looking at the stars

Writing poetry for gods who have never heard of us

Gods who will forgive us, love us

It was the Nubian Princess, the Aquarian artist

The dreadlocked singer

And I, the hopeless romantic, the star gazer

And with this wine, we washed our hands

Allowed the self-conviction to die in the middle of the night

We let it all pass-over

But I am no Moses and this staff is made of ink and plastic

These pages shall part like the red sea

Into a world of dreams – and me

(Prince Rayanne Chidzvondo)