I lost a poem

i will never be happy

till i find the poem

that i lost-

the poem of how i loved you

how i loved the way we kissed

on our first day

Mwandile Matiwana’s poems are deeply felt lyrics, displaying surprising shifts of tone. Many of them were written from prison. They cover a range of experiences – love, prison life, poverty, religious feeling – with rawness and delicacy. “My ribs are marked by some great absentminded size ten boots”