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In The Shadows We Hide


In the shadows I hide because society already made up How, who and what I should be but you are what is Expected of me, no matter how because I am supposed To provide for you, my struggles and pain are mine to Conceive because indoda ayi khali… You un-conceal my skeletons to the public for all to Convulsed yet I speak of your flaws I am considered Weak nor impulsive because wa thintha abafazi wathintha Imbokodo, funny how they united positively nor negatively But we united negatively yet positively we are afar… In the shadows we hide because society already made us, United we are not, divided we are because of that perspective We are superior but the truth is we created that society Ourselves because we afraid of what we really are MEN…
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