I am not afraid I am not afraid I am close to being free I am embarrassed by the shit that I used to put up with I have to leave you I have to leave you Because I can’t shrink enough Because I can’t be enough Because I can’t walk on eggshells...
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The Anthology of Breaking: You Left
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain You left You left the first time the second the third and the long last time You left and...
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Understand Men Better: Men Don’t Listen To Women
To be heard is something that I hold very dear to me, when I am not heard I feel all sorts of things that might seem small to the next person but way bigger to me. I have come to the conclusion that both men and women don’t listen to each other, yet each one...
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The Anthology of Breaking: I Slept Well When You Were Gone
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain I slept well when you were gone When you had left me Not on Valentine’s Day when you actually...
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When I First Encountered Sexual Intercourse
I remember the first time that I encountered sexual intercourse, I was around nine years old. Ou lady sent me next door to get something, I don’t quite remember what. The guy I was sent to had umkhukhu at the back, I went with a friend of mine and we knocked on the door. He...
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We Are Not Meant To Be Alone
I’m not that intimately close to anybody anymore. And even if I do have close friends and family, I no longer know how to ask someone to “khapha” me, be with me, talk to me with ease. There’s a sizeable territory between the world, my friends and relatives and the true me. It’s not that...
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The Anthology of Breaking: I Love You Like The First Ten Seconds In The Morning
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain I love you like the first ten seconds in the morning The ten seconds before I remember the burdens...
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The Anthology of Breaking: The Last Time That We Were Happy
*** There is a universe where you exist better You have loving parents You are not neglected Your mother does not call you a demon Your father does not leave You are not in pain When was the last time that we were happy? When was the last time that I felt happy? ...
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We Are Not Meant To Be Alone
I’m not that intimately close to anybody anymore. And even if I do have close friends and family, I no longer know how to ask someone to “khapha” me, be with me, talk to me with ease. There’s a sizeable territory between the world, my friends and relatives and the true me. It’s not that...
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Love Is A Journey: 11 Days of Love and Tar (Part 4)
It’s the 30th of December 2016. All along our plan was to ride from Jozi through the Groblersdaal Border into Botswana, passing through both Palapye and then quickly onto Francistown where we would eat lunch, then head onto the border between Zimbabwe and Botswana. This would lead us into Bulawayo, Zimbabwe with enough daylight for...