The Daze of Our Lies by K.I.N.G Cedric

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Like Sands through the hourglassSo is our life beneath the dunesA Marikana on our back, mining the crown jewelDigging for the fountain of youth In an old futureA hundred pre-colonial moons agoOur wrinkles, bullied by noosesForetold a...

Pebble Rebirths by K.I.N.G Cedric

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] It's been a rockyJourney throughThis cloudy mistOf EuphoricMourning Secrets lockedIn a bedridden subconsciousNumbed by Santa, my clauseAltered my state of joy with elvesInto squabbles with pagan monsters Till the day where a little boyReturned as a promiseHe...

June, and her other friends, like blues by K.I.N.G Cedric

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Welcome, to the home of the black and whiteBlackmailed white lies with justified grey areasAn exclusive rainbow nation that exilesThose who are robbed of the yearAnd can only be openly gay in June Stripped of the rights...

Nineteen Seventy-Conscience by K.I.N.G Cedric

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Marikana has not forgottenWhat we as the youth of old have becomeThe potholes and potbelly’sShare secrets in group chats Where the conversation isGather the youth to scatter them in low incomeOr no wages, that unless they soil...

An Ode To My Could Have Beens by K.I.N.G Cedric

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] To my sweet yesterday:You could have told meHow excruciating growth would be How the change from waterTo wine is not all it seems, there areGrapes who lose their innocence in-between Trading triumph for traumaWith decadent promises thatIt...