Tsepo Gumbi
BOTAKI BOOK PROJECT
maya like a candy in a little child’s hand for a moment i tasted the sweetness of a gentle and kind human heart his warm arms and his charms would never me a girl child harm but eighth years old i was raped my thighs wide open and splayed my little vagina violently penetrated my virginity viciously violated my childhood innocence assaulted my trust for adults betrayed death penalty threat hanging around my neck if a single soul would be told an angel girl child innocently i fell in brutal hell’s gentle hands death threat sealed my lips my heart could not a pain weep nor my eyes a tear bleed my head confused me to become a guilty victim i suffered a quiet pain inside my heart i took refuge in my traumatic silent retreat my voice turned into a mute agonizing melody a silent cry of a young caged bird a song only an angel lady can free gently the angel lady liberated my innocence from false guilt she emancipated my inner voice from incarcerating silence her graceful poetic solace relieved my mute pain my young age caged voice became free again now like a beautiful butterfly flowing with the flow of the wind maya is a free bird child the young bird that swings wings of change the young aged bird that sings songs of change maya angel is a free bid child
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