TEBOHO PIETERSEN

  When you follow someone in religion, you follow someone at home, you follow someone in business. You are an employee, you have a boss, you wait for someone to pay you. Without someone you are lost, you lack direction, you are confused. When there is no employment you are frustrated, you are in the wilderness. You are a follower.   You need direction from ‘above’, the government plays an important role. There is always a leader who dictates where you are going. There is always a need for an authority.  You have grown up this way, there was a teacher, a principal and they were very integral to your behaviour. Without them you didn’t know where to go, what to do, when to do it, how to do it. They answered your questions, according to you they had solutions. They have it figured out, your only job is to find out from them.   To ask them to explain and to show you and to train you. And this is your existence without which you are confused, lost.  Now you want ...

I had a friend who was talented  Or at-least he was good  He wanted so much to be an artist He admired other artists But he was petty He wanted to be known He wanted fame  He wanted to be recognized  He couldn’t quite get out of that  He wanted probably to be rich  To have his own money  Fit into high end society  To be a socialite  To belong to a clique  His music was particular  It couldn’t be more  Least it should push him out of the group It sounded the same  Even though he was changing  He had role models  He was ambitious  He wanted to meet his heroes and heroines His music had to fit their tastes  He knew them so well He had listened to them since he was a child  They were well respected  They had clout They were perfect Yet he was a follower Always within the same boundary  Safe Comfortable  Known The circle never got bigger The drugs provided an escape  The sex was not ...

It’s too bad that you should see me like that, with the eyes of familiarity   Full of memories   What we did and what we did not do What we said and did not say  Should be funny that you look at me with the eyes of an enemy  Remembering the rough times of our friendship  It’s too bad that you see me through the eyes of a stranger  The eyes of a stranger  It’s too bad that you see me through the eyes of a player  A trickster  A fraudster  It’s too bad that you see me like that  It’s too bad that you seen me at my worst  It’s too bad that we played games and danced in the rain It’s too bad that you saw me at my worst  And celebrated my hurt  It’s too bad that you  Danced at my defeat  Praised when I was weak  It’s too bad that you are a wolf in sheep’s clothing  Too bad that you are phoney  Too bad that you didn’t see that I was rooting for you  Doing what I did cause I was protecting you...

  No one’s life particularly makes sense   There is no such thing  Even if it seems that way  You want to have role models  Well suit yourself  Be blinded to the facts  Live in illusions  No one’s life is the one  That’s what you been taught to see  To escape from your own life  Watching content  Making goals from magazines  Ambitious  No desire to be serious  No one lives as all of them should  Everyone lives their own lives  As they do and insist on doing  Why should they live another persons ideas  Why should they be lost and confused  Searching for the right way to do things Willing to follow  Willing to be lead  Governments  Academics  Lawyers judges, the Supreme Court  Why should you conform  Find your own way  Make your own way    Why be lead, it makes you sad  Gain the momentum  Despite the conventions  You can seek clari...

  You will invite me today and uninvite me tomorrow Love me and hate me  Date me and break up with me  Find me, lose me  Hold me, let me go  You will save me and sell me out  Pay me and defraud me  You will visit me  Leave me lonely  Intimate with me  Call it love for me Then go mute on me  Try to use me  Empty me for all I have  You’ll be charming with me  Smile and joke with me  Call me sweet nothing  Then go quite on me  Abandon me Make me an enemy  You will make food for me  Lay a table before me  Laugh out loud and send emojis to me  Braai with me Wish me a happy whatever  Then go far from me  Bully me  Tell on me  Make up stories  Play nasty with me  You will hold me  Get comfy  Play music  Until you don’t get what you want  Then you will let me go  Fight with me  Make up things about me  Be my sunshine  And ...