My soul knew you Before we even met, my soul knew you On that faithful day when we accidentally bumped each other on that street corner, My soul immediately recognised you It saw you and I started praising the Lord for I had found the one my soul loves The One I can […]
Dear old friend This letter comes from the future Do not be afraid I only write to simply guide you through the ways of life. Some paths will be rosy, and others, quite thorny But alas! You will get through the days… You will get through the days. Dear old friend For some reason […]
A poem of hope… Masked: Same faces, different places Races, traces Divided by streets, states, oceans Alone, yet in unison A memory: I long for yesterday I long to be as the butterflies Moving swiftly through the morning breeze I long to hold your hands While swaying through the forest trees A […]
Lizza Tshowa My Poems Assassination, Congo, DRC, Independence, patrice lumumba, poetry 1
On this very day, 17th January 1961, the DRC’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. I wrote this specific poem in 2019 for the celebration of my country’s 59th Independence Day at our University Congolese Society event. I am reposting my poem, in memory of a great Hero. I drew inspiration from the movie […]
Black beauty, so fierce So vulnerable The years of your youth remain in your eyes You hold back tears For the sake of others. Not to see you fall You hold your dignity high And wear pride in the place of a crown Your heart, so fragile So strong Your feet have run where […]
If you are into Victorian literature and if you are a hopeless romantic, an old-soul love kinda person, I would highly recommend you read Jane Eyre. It is set in Northern England in the 19th Century. This is dedicated to all the couples out there and to all the future couples. I hope you […]
I write this piece to those that have lost a loved one. A parent. My heart goes out to you, I mourn with you…We mourn with you… That lonely winter’s morning I remember it was winter because the cold somehow felt worse than before It was as if it understood me for we […]
-by Lizza Tshowa Picture source: Pinterest Beloved children, it is I, Your mother Your world Your past Your future I’ve watched you grow into the human race that you are today I have given Selflessly You have taken Mindlessly I have warned You have ignored You have hurt me in more ways than one Yet, […]
