Peace and ease

By Cwengile Gagela

Yesterday I was in this very room when

I caught a glimpse of freedom.

Silently, tiptoeing passed me...

I reached for it, grabbed it in desperation as if I was diseased and needed a cure.

I felt is slip through my fingers and I tightened them wanting no escape.

I'd been searching for it, finally I found it and as I embraced it sensations of numbness fluctuated through my body and I'D FOUND MYSELF...

AT EASE

AND AT PEACE

YOU SEE, GULLIBILITY WAS MY FOE,

BEFORE I WAS MADE TO BELIVE!!!

REPEATEDLY THESE VOICES WHISPERED

"Cwengile let go, give in, give in to these pleasures and feelings"

And as a result I lost myself in this cruel cruel world.

Ewe izolo bendindedwa,

Ndiphoxwe nguwe.

When I caught this glimpse of freedom,

I embraced it, dwelled in ITS numbness,

Freed myself,

From him,

From her,

From them,

From it,

From this bond.

And I...FOUND MYSELF

AT PEACE

AND AT EASE

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