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<h3>Poem by <span class="has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color">Refilwe J Mokgatlenyane</span></h3>
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<p>Her voice is full of pain and rage<br>It’s like she’s been locked in a hard shield cage<br>And she doesn’t wanna leave without imbedding a mark<br>I can feel her fists, aggressively hitting against my heart</p>
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<p>Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night<br>Only to find her bleeding, her wrists smeared with cuts<br>She doesn’t think straight, she might be nuts<br>She lives in me but we’re two different souls in one</p>
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<p>Her voice is so loud that it travels down my heart<br>No matter how much I press in my ears, this voice is inside of me<br>I can’t fight, I cannot drown her because she’s part of me<br>She belongs in my body for as much as I do too<br>But I suffer from the repercussions of her deeds that I know not of</p>
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<p>She lives in every part of my body<br>Her blood just as mine runs through my veins<br>She’s alive and controls part of my brain<br>And I won’t lie, this life is pain, its vain<br>To live as yourself and wake up to be a stranger the other day<br>She lives in me and I can’t do anything about it anymore</p>
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