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All it took was one heart, one mind

To place my love under his feet

Leave it an empty carcass and walk away

To place my being all over his manhood

And cum my affections into disarray

All it took was one set of lips

To kiss my intimacies into spoken word spaces

Searching for involuntary getaways

So I decided to write to you my truth to say

I see it in your eyes today

  I made love to his eyes

Which reflected the shattered pieces of me,

So that every time my eyes met his

I cried crimson tears

I made love to his hands that ever so intelli(gently)

Stripped away a layer of my dignity

Each time he caressed my breasts

I made love to his groin, which sculpted itself into a gyroscope

That beckoned my existence into a residual black hole --

The leftovers after he was done with my womanhood

See all it took was one heart, one mind

To place my love inside his propellant destructivity,

Leave it in an empty corridor

Dragging my light away

So I decided to write to you my truth to say

I see it in your eyes today

  And as we parted ways, it was amazing how

His eyes became Lungelo

His hands became Siyabulela

And  his groin became Kwazi…

I made love to all of them, all at the same time

One after the other, in shifts…

You know…

Like working in the diner from 6-12, the call centre from 1-7 and the club from 8 til 2

This made me cry four times harder,

With a panging so bad

But I couldn’t even share it with my mother

All in the attempt to take back each & every piece of me

That he so vehemently spent basking in my love

Only to drown my heart in pollution like carbon emissions into the atmosphere

  I remember having to mount myself inside his tendons

In order to begin fathoming the greatness

Of being elevated by a love so graceful

A love beyond even myself, I confess!

I remember having to emulate the foreskin of his manhood

Just to feel how amazing it was to be engulfed

By a being so intrinsic to existence

An existence he only came to experience by virtue of my presence

I remember having to hang on to his pout

To grasp the serendipity found in the intricacies of my thoughts

When I was so lost in him….

All it took was one heart, one mind to steal my heart away

  So I slowly began to take back the pieces of my heart

Which I failed to teach him to nurture

I slowly began to reconstruct my shattered perceptions of love

With the last ounces of compassion I still had left for myself

I slowly began to show me some love today

And in this way I returned to my whole self

And back into the arms of true love again.

  So I wrote to you my truth to say

I saw it in your eyes today

And every morning as I wake up

I say a little prayer for you

So that you may also find a life filled escape

From Love’s potentially damaging indiscriminancy

Coz all it took was one heart, one mind

To put my love into a sealed off trunk of treasure

Drop it into the bottommost pits of the ocean

So that I may never love another day.

  Yes I wrote to you my truth today

So that you may also be safe

From your own wreckless demeanors of self

I wrote to you my truth today

So that you may also find refuge

In the Lion of Juda-esque qualities

That dubbed I a conqueror

Banishing the chains of

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