Burgle malice aforethought

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BURGLE MALICE
AFORETHOUGHT

Maganyan' agxozel' amazinyane!
Ligegelel' imbuya litshiy' ulude.

Zikhohlakal' ezedlula zonk' izikhohlakali ngokukhohlakala!
Ngabe yindodakazi yakho_
Alub' uzwa njani?
Lisonel' igama lamadoda!

Isencane l' ingane!
Wen' ubon' umfazi.
With your canines out,

Claws drawn,
You salivate for innocent lambs.

Buyeph' ubuntu?

Bantu nantu uthango lusidla amakhomane.
Bakhale kubani abantwana libakhama bengakakhuli.
Lingama Khehla akhohlakeleyo kwaze kwathi ngilikhahlele

There goes our future,
Taken by our fathers and uncles.
Rather than protecting, you devour!
And destroy causing destruction.

Instead of clothing them,
You strip them naked.

Immodest behaviour from immature men.

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Such sabotage, oppression,
Cruelty to the girl child.
Such social deviance.

Oh! our nation ails, what a catastrophe.

A road with two ways,
A game not only one gender plays.
It involves negligence of self-control,
Quick replies when satisfaction's urges crawl.

Is it worth it?
Do you see it fit?
Bulldozing yourself on a teen,
Instead of just wiping their tears clean.
It's not "some men" who are painted black.
Every man's nature is at stake.
Save us all the trouble,
Home is where you bust your bubble!

To the female child,
You are getting crowned by the wrong crowd.

Is it that bad?
You really have to get laid?
What happened to morality?
You can't just sell out to profanity!

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You are dancing to the wrong tune,
Serving your cake to every man with a spoon.

I curse the influence!
Let's stay on the ethical side of the fence.

That's how it should be,
Life is more than sex for a cup of tea.

Mayeeee!!!
Kusani pho??
Sokungene impisi ekhaya na??
Kumbe yinja esivuke ubhova?
Hayi Cha ngumangoye sephenduke igola!!
Bavela bona kala bebancane besidla amamengo ngesawudo,
Khathesi nampa besitshabalalisa isizwe.
Amakhala asanuka uchago.

Where is this world going to?
Look, our little girls weep.

As vicious merciless wolves wait with red eyes,
And heavy wallets to devour,

Deflower them and consume their virtue.
Bindurians, how do you find sleep when the devil is rebuilding

Gomorrah?

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Kuhlasimulisa umzimba
Kwehlisa iziny' embez' endodeni

Kudala isibibitwabeni
Kukhulu kwedl' uTshaka.
Kude kukhab' emayeni.
Kudid' abantu njenge vaccine yeconvid.

Lanxa kuzwakalela le eBindura.
Kukhona ilizwana lonke jikelele,
Kungumoy' ophephetha kuntsha,
Ungekubabaze komakhelwane,

Njengeconvid.

Hlezi isiyeqiwe zinyang'
ingane kowakho.
Angithi kuyatshiwo,

Elendoda kalihlekwa.

Our humanity is being questioned today!
Sometimes I wonder,

What courage does a grown up have?
The courage to go and invite a child to a bedroom bubble,
Let alone a child who is not even on the brink off adulthood.

Once again, I ask; are we still humans or it is the dawn of a new era?

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An era where morals are invalid and useless,
An era where grandfathers take a 10-year-old granddaughter to

bed,
And still feel like everything is normal; No guilty conscience!

Have we done something to try and eradicate this error?

Yes, it is for income; but is it really worth it?
I sometimes wonder how a parent could let their child do such?
Letting a child get involved with men old enough to be her father;

Child prostitution,
And still enjoy the money like all is well; Still no care!

Then afterwards you claim you love her,
"Yeah! Like hell I do; I can kill for her!"; Baseless lies.

Let us come together; Discrimination aside!
Deal with this problem once and for all,

Let us put an end to this ruthless inhumane act,
Show that we indeed love them; Not just claiming!

No more words but now actions.

Today I speak; tomorrow I hold my peace!
Those who have ears have heard,

Those who have hearts and emotions have felt!
What to do after this?

It all depends on the humanity in us,

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And not the beast within!

Nanz' inkukhu zinath' amaqandazo!
Ziyoqunywa nguban' imilomo?
Ziyothenwa nguban' izinja lezi?

Lilengis' imikhaba esamagagas' olwandle,
Lihubel' ingani zenu.

Lizithaphuthaphuze lizitshaphaze,
Lingamatshaph' amadoda!
Izwe litshabalele ngani.
Mphu zikhohlakali!

Aph' amadoda aqotho.
Buphi na ubuntu babantu.

Uphi unembeza bazali.
Luphi bakwethu uzwelo.
Stand up society and defend abantwana.
Protect their futures and their state of mind.

Where are we going as a nation?
Better still the world at large?

What will be of the future once we are gone?
Will our daughters rejoice in our deeds?
Or they will curse our dead corpses?

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Let us all vouch for a change
By freeing the girl child.

I say stop sexually abusing our girls.
Let us all be their keeper.
Their friends and heroes,

For their future is in our hands.

Child prostitution instead of child protection,
Shameless homo sapiens,

Filthy and servants of darkness.
No, you are a whole load of darkness,
Cold hearts, humanity buried in a dungeon

Devouring unripe fruits
Do your brains even function?
To choose such a heartless card and turn it to a hobby!

Prostituting and trafficking blameless souls to the devil is ungodly.
Lurking in darkness and snatching away purity with no consent is just

unholy.
Existing in fear of inhumane practices and cruelty on our femininity,

Adjusting our significance so as not to provoke your filthy
inclinations.

Sexual acts demoralised to feed your diabolical demonic desires,
Every day we face the curse of surviving, now we are being sold to

be raped by estranged men.

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Poverty has devoured human beings like wild dogs, turning them into
predators with zero morals.

Resorting to unruly means of sustainability under wicked and deadly
circumstances.

Over and over we wail from excruciating torture as we are victims of
erotic puppetry.

Tarnished dreams, we are now faced with a dim unforeseeable
future.

Even our "protectors" pry at our still developing frames, bloody
perverts, paedophiles breeding traumatic realities.

Contaminated by wolf-tracks and bite marks on our thighs, crying
out into space with no one to cleanse their distressing shitty mess.
Tormented daily, violated brutally, beaten down to a pulp, naked,

clothed in nothing but bruises, it has to end!

Unite as a nation and stop these monsters before they wipe us out
entirely,

Stand together to better our loophole’s system lavishing in the
expense of tainted innocence.

Chebukani shule
Yeyani kushule ndizo zwakebeta maTate enhu na?

Seni mwalibipisa izina lyabanhulume
Kufukula uwo mwana zumbalo

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Inshoni mwakajisenga kupi?
Ibhayila kulya makavhu
Zwandityisa.

Woe unto your perpetrators,
Merciless beings who take advantage of our little girls,
Isn't it enough that their futures already been robbed and their lives

disturbed, why take their Innocence as well?
Woe unto you for you have degraded humanity.

Who shall protect them if not you?
What shall become of them?

Have you become so wicked and weak that you get pleasure in the
tears of a small girl,

Is this how you have decided to prove your power, over helpless little
girls?

Then I question your strength, old little boys.

Woe unto you wicked society,
A society that supports perpetrators by venturing into backyard

abortion clinics,
A society that makes money by selling them drugs.
You have let poverty take over the little pride you had,

You have failed,
But that could be changed.

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Dying slowly,
Failed by those we should look up to
Failed by those who should lead the way,
They say cause it's not their own it makes no difference.

My situation,
I did not choose,
Born to this life,
An option I wasn't given.

To be rescued is all I want,
To be cared for,
Protected,

And treated like a child is all I have ever asked for.

Selling fruits as a cover,
“Apples and oranges for sell,
Plus, the person as a bonus,”

My catch phrases.
How gullible are they,
How can they not see my struggles?

Give a helping hand,
And stop the judgement.
Let your concerns be placed in the right place,

Stop all the talking,

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Start the action,
For actions speak louder than words.

Brought into this world was not my choice,
But to survive by all means is what I choose.

So, help me out of this life,
Or let me survive.

Defenders are now offenders.
Men have turned into monsters.
They are supposed to be protecting,

But they are destroying.
Destroying young girls 's futures.
Oh! God save your children from these heartless creatures.
They leave their wives at home,
After that they get connected to young girls like chrome.
I pray to God that one day they will drop their evil acts.

STIs and HIV roam free,
Where is our love?

Crushing young people’s dreams.
Cutting their lives short,

Only for a morning satisfaction.
Mothers now passing it to the next,
“Its your turn to take care of us my daughter,

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My waist is no longer that flexible,
As my loud cough scares the consumers”
A mother preaches to a 10-year-old daughter.

School drop outs,
From mensuration, now they study menstrual cycles,

No longer paying attention on logarithms,
Minds focused on skipping pregnancy, rhythm method,

Paying attention when they get paid.

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