Forever
I will love you forever is an illusion, a mirage, an apparition, because it presupposes that factors which inspired that love are constant like sunrise and sunset.
If I love you for your money, forever becomes today I no longer do, if you become bankrupt and lose the cars that moved us around to places where forever people hang out.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a famous writer from Kenya once said love happens in a certain social context, meaning people fall in love and marry from their class and culture.
Forever becomes today I don’t if you lose a leg, and the national athletics team removes you from its list. I loved you for the fame and glory, television cameras and online sounding boards as you held the flag aloft at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
Everybody loves winners of beauty competitions: Miss World, Miss European Union, Miss Universe or Miss South Africa. They get married to men who purport to love them forever. Forever becomes today, I no longer do if your face is scarred through a car accident or a fire.
This reminds me of when I used to tiptoe around Bollywood, looking for unique films. Vivah, starring Amrita Rao as Poonam and Shahid Kapoor as Prem is one of them, a classic in my book. Classic because I can never forget it. They are just about to get married when Poonam braves a fire to save her cousin.
The doctor cannot believe it when Prem comes to the hospital and marries her right there, bandages and all. The doctor says something like this, ‘We’ve seen cases where even families abandon them.’
Forever can lead to self mutilation like suicide because it is circumstantial. The body is like nature. It changes. Women have kids, an event that is celebrated even demanded from them.
The body has evidence that it has produced four wonderful little people. The man in the house starts hiding behind his laptop and finally disappears because he has found a new body, reminiscent of the one you had when you both said forever.
That is forever’s extreme case. It doesn’t have to be like that. It should be measured like time. there is night and day for a reason. Forever tends to be elastic, beyond boundaries or time constraints like minutes and seconds.
Forever works well if the two people don’t live in the same house, same city, same country. They have the luxury to re-visit forever, prompted by some minuscule thing like a train, a song, a movie, a vegetable or fruit.
The beauty of forever is the transformation in someone’s face, brilliant and equally elusive like the rainbow, until the daily person says what are you thinking?
‘Nothing.’
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
If I love you for your money, forever becomes today I no longer do, if you become bankrupt and lose the cars that moved us around to places where forever people hang out.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a famous writer from Kenya once said love happens in a certain social context, meaning people fall in love and marry from their class and culture.
Forever becomes today I don’t if you lose a leg, and the national athletics team removes you from its list. I loved you for the fame and glory, television cameras and online sounding boards as you held the flag aloft at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
Everybody loves winners of beauty competitions: Miss World, Miss European Union, Miss Universe or Miss South Africa. They get married to men who purport to love them forever. Forever becomes today, I no longer do if your face is scarred through a car accident or a fire.
This reminds me of when I used to tiptoe around Bollywood, looking for unique films. Vivah, starring Amrita Rao as Poonam and Shahid Kapoor as Prem is one of them, a classic in my book. Classic because I can never forget it. They are just about to get married when Poonam braves a fire to save her cousin.
The doctor cannot believe it when Prem comes to the hospital and marries her right there, bandages and all. The doctor says something like this, ‘We’ve seen cases where even families abandon them.’
Forever can lead to self mutilation like suicide because it is circumstantial. The body is like nature. It changes. Women have kids, an event that is celebrated even demanded from them.
The body has evidence that it has produced four wonderful little people. The man in the house starts hiding behind his laptop and finally disappears because he has found a new body, reminiscent of the one you had when you both said forever.
That is forever’s extreme case. It doesn’t have to be like that. It should be measured like time. there is night and day for a reason. Forever tends to be elastic, beyond boundaries or time constraints like minutes and seconds.
Forever works well if the two people don’t live in the same house, same city, same country. They have the luxury to re-visit forever, prompted by some minuscule thing like a train, a song, a movie, a vegetable or fruit.
The beauty of forever is the transformation in someone’s face, brilliant and equally elusive like the rainbow, until the daily person says what are you thinking?
‘Nothing.’
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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