Getting well
is not a language
nor an expression
who gets well
who doesn’t
is a storm tamed at times
we carry within us
touched by a sun
I repent sometimes
a violence of
souls.
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It has been nights
I have spoken to walls
the floor on a soft thud
tries remembering history
skies correlate to different suns
nights always remain the same
patient
from many takeovers
people here seem faceless healing stays
structural as always
tonight
let's just talk again
of fears
in the eyes of man
he wakes only tomorrow
his shack
suffocating
under a strange new sun in Mdantsane
* Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane, South Africa is named after the first black registered nurse in Apartheid South Africa. It is a tertiary hospital catering to the health needs of Mdantsane, the second biggest township after Soweto.
Getting well