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22 Jul

As I Lay Beside You

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Summer’s eve Our bodiemolten to climate coolness by heat. My skin, Bombarded by the collisions of excited particles in adherence to yours. Overwhelmed by the presence of your erected hair follicles. Your head fallen, in the crook of my neck lain on my chest Close to my heart beat; where you should be. With...
17 Jul

Secrets – Part three

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Click to read Part II “Everyone, please step away from the patient! Sir, I’ll need you to step aside.” “No! That’s my daughter!” “Yoh yoh yoh! Johnny, DO something! Ngwanaka hleng! Lerato, can you hear me? Ke Mama!” “Sir! We want to help your daughter but I’ll need you to step aside. What’s her...
17 Jul

06.06.16

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06.06.16 I don’t remember what it’s like to not feel broken. To not feel the shards that are somehow holding me up slowly tearing at the rest of my being with each breath I take. To not have my mind filled with all the horrible thoughts you’ve induced in me about myself so much...
11 Jul

You Are The Words

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You Are The Words You are the Words I utter It’s you, the one who rolls off my tongue in romantic deceit. Comely, I extract you from my larynx like a metamorphosised butterfly taking its first flatter You are the Words I spew, in the lack of verbal deficit You are the unbridled stutter...
10 Jul

The Monster in Your Bed

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You wasted your time looking for monsters under your bed, Not realising that they were brave enough to lie next to you instead. Fresh from his meeting with “the boys”, He comes home to kiss you on the forehead with lips that are tinted slightly red from another woman’s lipstick. He hugs you long...
10 Jul

Mrs Write: correct the unwritten

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We’re too wrong. So wrong that we have tainted the fabric of humanity. I paused to find the stillness so I could look at this reality. Where I could spot every difference in your existence and place your body in a box, your soul in some chains, mind in some locks. Discard the locks...