Saturday 5 January 2013

THE CRYING MONA LISA

She smiled hiding the tears
That tore her heart with spears
Her conceptions not yet articulate
At thirteen her menstruation late
Her baby like groans destitution
In the raping blade of deception
At the very place called home
Abused under the loving dome
Molestation denied in the paedophile dark
Forbidden to play in the observant park
Her face with unpromising smiles
As her eyes with tears of piles
Look deep in the parental hands
That refused protection that mends

She smiled

In the streets of Johannesburg
Where she had to beg
Searching for shelter in brothels
Conforming, her love no longer petals
No more, does or does not
Petulant in the throbbing of strangers
In her mind acquired stranglers
Euphoric in the monetary palace
With amnesia to please
In a spell of white diamonds
Her life, dry like forgotten ponds
Descending into the undefined files
When her life had been nothing but miles
Now as afar as the scare-crows on poles

She smiled

Sited on the vestiges of splendour
When she thinks of anything but pleasure
How her existence inclined in terror
When she hoped to expunge horror
In the palms of a chauvinistic fool
His alcoholic tummy full
Careless on her fragile body
As he trains on her, in her monody
Pleading forgiveness of tragedy
When you cannot tell if she’s a lady
His sober sobs scripted
In an act indecently opted
When she did not the words heed
That told of this man’s need

She smiled hiding the tears
That tore her heart with spears
Her sorrow lamented in prose
Telling her eloquent ache in poise
Her feminine uniqueness regal
How touching her is illegal
When she yells for assistance
To obliterate the ghosts of hate
Forced on a sexist plate
By this boy who called himself
Her man

She smiled
In her estuarial radiance
Told by Da Vinci in prose

By Linda Sakazi Thwala  
Linda Sakazi Twala 

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