Do you realise you created an equation
by crossing an invisible linear line?
You hopped over barricades
barriers
oceans
and borderlines
to place your hand on my unsuspecting thigh.
What must happen now?
Retshepisitswe ‘Tshepi’ Makhatha has been published in Poetry Potion’s 10th print edition titled ‘This Woman Is… He has also had his poems published in The Kalahari Review, Ons Klyntji and Praxis Magazine online. His 2-minute play was shortlisted by the SA Short II Committee and read at the National Arts Festival held in Grahamstown in 2017.