Tales of the heart is a collection of poems that are intended to Take its readers through the different states of emotions that the heart is able to feel. This book explains how and why the heart can be both a person's weakness yet their greatest strength. Each poem solely focuses on a collection of physical reactions and emotional sensation that come with a certain feeling like how happiness comes with energy, loud voice, heart beating fast, yet anger can also come with a loud voice and the urge to fight, the strength to want to pick up heavy objects to release your stresses.
The heart is full of love, full of hate, full of forgiveness yet also full of resentment. Tales of the heart is taking the readers throughout those stages and is the love life journey of its writer Asithandile Gqwaka.