2nd Jan 2017. After two solid days of amazing live performances; making new friends, bungee jumping, micro lighting, sundowner boat cruises while croc and hippo spotting, we bid Meli adieu and pack all our belongings back on the bike. We strap into our riding gear, charge helmet comms, check tyre pressure, oil and other vital...
Category: Relationships
The Anthology of Breaking: You Didn’t Love Me
You wasted my heart You did not love me. I must move on. I must let it go. It hurts I wish that it was different I feel cheated I feel used I have been discarded I am alone and lonely I am tired of being alone and lonely I must get over it...
The Anthology of Breaking: I Am Not Afraid
I am not afraid I am not afraid I am close to being free I am embarrassed by the shit that I used to put up with I have to leave you I have to leave you Because I can’t shrink enough Because I can’t be enough Because I can’t walk on eggshells...
The Anthology of Breaking: You Left
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain You left You left the first time the second the third and the long last time You left and...
The Anthology of Breaking: I Slept Well When You Were Gone
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain I slept well when you were gone When you had left me Not on Valentine’s Day when you actually...
The Anthology of Breaking: I Love You Like The First Ten Seconds In The Morning
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain I love you like the first ten seconds in the morning The ten seconds before I remember the burdens...
The Anthology of Breaking: The Last Time That We Were Happy
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain When was the last time that we were happy? When was the last time that I felt happy? ...
Love Is A Journey: 11 Days of Love and Tar (Part 4)
It’s the 30th of December 2016. All along our plan was to ride from Jozi through the Groblersdaal Border into Botswana, passing through both Palapye and then quickly onto Francistown where we would eat lunch, then head onto the border between Zimbabwe and Botswana. This would lead us into Bulawayo, Zimbabwe with enough daylight for...
Is Chivalry Dead?
‘Chivalry’ – noun “the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.” According to the Cambridge dictionary, chivalry is “very polite, honest, and kind behaviour, especially by men towards women”. This definition hits closer to the question, is chivalry dead? Is it? Did it ever exist? I recently met up with, somebody that...
The Anthology of Breaking: Who Am I To Instruct God?
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain I pray that God guides you I pray that God keeps you I keep my prayers brief, however...