Blue; my different shade of blue
Poem by Refilwe J. Mokgatlenyane
My blue is dark, yours is light
Your blue is day, mine is night
Your blue is hope, mine is plight
Your blue brings laughter, mine bring tears
Your blue brings freedom, mine brings fears
Maverick Kabelo
Refilwe Mokgatlenyane is a young writer, an aspiring entrepreneur and an LLB student at the University of Botswana. Her writing journey has started way back since she was 9 years old, she started off as a short story writer and changed to novels and later on started specialising more on poetry writing.
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