The Void
What happens to black boys who go missing
Do we even call it missing
Do we just say he's gone
What happens to boys who hide inside their minds
Who run across borders
Who live in dimensions that should have remained in the womb
What happens to boys who are unwanted
What happens to boys who want to die inside their skins
The day they learn what their fathers have done to them
What their mothers have done to themselves
What they are made of
Pain like a Rubik's cube changing face but not form
Gauya is a woman getting rape by her own peeps every day
Her place is the center of the hurricanes not the eye
Crosses and boils at the bottom of the sea
Oh people we call foreigners
When gifted and enter the sea
They find their own ready to teach her
You refuse your identity as water
Teach us rise
Claim your streets as oceans
Wash your cities in fire
Minds stop menstruating
The sky won't release her tights
We wake up in the sun the same day
The long death pass the noon
The morning guidelight is just a show with a sponsor
Who is paying for the sun to show up everyday
If that works for free then him because I can't
Who will pick the babies
And the cops attend to them like a man
The sun shows up to man's appluase
And lives everyone else to deal with the mud
We start touching dirt in the city streets
They started touching me
They say let go of your story
But first, you have to know it is there
In the blood and in the body
In the food and in the sea
In the goddess that is fighting a war in me
And the twisted arsenal in the depths of shame
In the wailing voice that gives songs their nam
Autor(es): Thandi Ntuli