Nkosana

Portrait of a young black man wearing an African robe.

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Nkosana is the one I love.
Know him well and you will love him, too.
Of him it can be said his love is pure,
Simple, sweet, shy, innocent, and sure,
A decision that he makes each day anew,
Not so much concerned with what to do
As whom to be, the choice that all else proves.

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