When was the last time you cried?

I cried a lone tear today

Because it's been a year since you walked away.

You left me with a shattered heart

And that's when my life began falling apart.

I cried a lone tear today

But it did nothing to wash away

The hurt I felt when I found out

I was no longer the girl you dream about.

I cried a lone tear today

And with this tear I firmly say,

"This will be the last tear for you!"

Besides, I wouldn't have cried if I only knew

That today I'd have someone so dear,

Who genuinely loves me, who genuinely cares.

Someone who appreciates the little things I do,

In short, someone who's nothing like you.

Besides, when was the last time you cried?

- Nakeshia Wellington

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Foolish people

Lazy, incompetent, impotent and foolish people

Who cover their misdeeds behind words from the Bible,

Sabotaging, conspiring and hating each other,

Would kill and steal even their own mother.

Walking at a fast pace each week

Pretending to be busy even when asleep

Using the performance appraisal as a tool,

Hoping to keep back those they know to be no fool.

Unhappy, irreverent, insincere, greedy ones

Who would rather throw bricks and blows and stones,

Set fires, tear papers and destroy the photocopying machine,

Wreck cars, disfigure furniture and upon nothing good are keen,

Lying on and murdering their fellow workers

Wanting to see him for the last time go through the gate.

- Mebs Picasso

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A fool's problem

"I wrote you a poem today,

it's in the papers," he would say, like a lion luring its prey to the kill.

To her dismay, he blogs to the entire universe of his never-ending love for her

But not even the immediacy of new media gives him a presence in her world

He prostrates before the judgement throne of her heart

His wish?

To be found guilty of unconditional love and condemned to the prison of her soul

In between clicks and backspaces, he carries out his own thought experiment - that she waits in anticipation to forge a truce.

He craves her attention and waits for the sound of yes, even maybe.

Images he now sees of her are his only memory of her beautiful grey eyes and a warm and peaceful smile.

How deceptive!

She is, after all, melancholic, inflamed and grieved at the thought that her forbidden love still pines for her.

Dreadful!

- Racquel Artwell

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Corporate friendships

Genuine interaction

Buoyancy in expression

No set mission

Just embracing connection

Relaxation

As true friends do

Are those friendships still being formed?

The answer may not even cause you to be alarmed

In a post-modern world where it's a rat race for bread

Self-seeking and self-interest become wed

And raise their collective head

To strike selflessness dead

And so like an organisation

Which undergoes mergers and acquisitions

So are many friendships formed

It's all about what is in it for me

Nothing comes for free

Can this person help me to get ahead in my job?

Can this person help me with and through school?

Then if they can, that's an opportunity to grab

If there's a faster way to get ahead, why play by the rules?

And suddenly society has become soulless

We have become soulless

As we have sought to sacrifice pure relations

For business transactions

Which causes us to build a wall

Against each and all

Who reach out in a friendly manner

As we begin to wonder

What is it they want?

- Garfield Goulbourne