Responding to the ex’s ‘i miss you’ text | Busamoya Phodiso Modirwa

 

typing…
You were carefully cunning with your craft               my bewitching one
 How you cast a spell on me                         like it was not a burden
Made it all enchanting;                             alluring            like love
When you found me   a sun-filled bird         tittering alone
Your smile,    two neat rows                 of conniving daisies                              those wicked angels
   Reverently turned     in my direction
             Hissing behind their blooming
O! the mind games
You said it was love         but that thing picked at my                        feathers               silly
Loving                  you made of me such a black bird
Made of me a         haunted garden of forget-me-nots
    Wilting at the sunset of your pretense
So what           exactly do you miss?
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Responding to the ex’s ‘i miss you’ text | Busamoya Phodiso Modirwa
Responding to the ex’s ‘i miss you’ text | Busamoya Phodiso Modirwa

Busamoya Phodiso Modirwa is a Motswana writer and poet with works published on The Kalahari Review, Jalada Africa, The Weight Of Years:An Afroanthology of Creative Nonfiction, Praxis Online Magazine and, 20.35 Africa Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry and elsewhere. She is a recepient of the Botswana President’s Award-Contemporary Poetry 2016 and recently completed a poetry residency at the Gaborone Art Residency Centre.

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