Excerpt - These Days...

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“These days I say no and grow fat from it 

Full of myself - 

sure footed and difficult

Spilling over, uncontained and Furious. And Whole

and satisfied and complete and

quite happy, actually

These days, I name it.

These days, I risk the sound 

of my own voice wild

and Rising and Annoyed

I respond

I walk away

I cause a scene

These days, I know no one will save me

No one did

These days,

I resist

I have learned:

sometimes the only recourse you have is the one you can effect”

Mbali Vilakazi©