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<h3>Poem by <span class="has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color">Refilwe J. Mokgatlenyane</span> </h3>
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<p>She was young and naïve<br>Growing without love drove her to look for it in the wildest of places<br>She got lost between finding love that is worth the price and just lust for the beautiful faces<br>And she met one devil’s angel, ready to devour her innocent little soul</p>
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<p>She never knew of love from the right ones, so she found comfort in a stranger<br>She dug for love in the deepest of places and never knew she was approaching danger<br>Like an infant when it sees milk, she opened up her whole heart<br>She gave in with all her might<br>What she thought she found was love but it was like she put her tiny hand inside the mouth of a venomous snake<br>And was going to earn a toxic bite</p>
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<p>His eyes were flames<br>But she was even more ready to come closer because she fell in love with the heat<br>She trusted a stranger, a man who told her he loves her, and his handsome smile set her heart pacing<br>A man who with a single touch sent electrical impulses buzzing around her whole body that she sweated like a dog panting<br>A man who bought her with armada<br>A man who gave her a fake ring and made her dream about weddings and cake pudding<br>A man who made her forget about the dream life she owed herself<br>She gave her heart to a man who erased her ambitions and sold her dreams</p>
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<p>His eyes were flames<br>That they burnt down her definition of pride into fossils and sucked up all the fuel<br>They set her tiny body on fire and burnt away her innocence for he was very cruel<br>His eyes were flames that burnt her little heart into nothing but ash<br>His eyes were flames that swept away the purity of her soul and left her nothing but trash</p>
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