The Up & Coming Magazine

the rivers are dry,

so, your tears

 aren’t just going to waste,

 let me conquer

 these days of darkness

 and sink

 into this dark ink

so, no one may feel left out.

I should compromise

and leave the residues behind

 but once

 again, I fall deeper

and these days, catch me on a flight

so, I dive,

not fly.

High,

 high

 and high

but in the end, I am only left to drown.

This was written by our contributing writer, Siwaphiwe Matha.

Image Source: Unsplash, Evgeniy Zabrodin