Fever Poem by Angela Bontle Ditumiso

We dance the night away
Welcoming tomorrow
Into today
Welcoming breakthrough
And refined hope
Dance in the fire
Sway with the flames
Don't stand still
This is the time to rejoice

We've been wearing misery
Most of our life
No longer know if
It's our skin
Or we truly deserve a smile
So for today, tomorrow
And the rest of our lives
How about we make up
For all the bad days

Smile
Not everybody got a chance
To carve their names
Into the caves of the living
Some dreamt of this day
But their trails
Died away way before
They could see the sunset
That shouldn't stop us from being feverish
Just as we can't stop being nostalgic
Even after all the pain
We've endured