Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Blinded…
Hearing life from a distance
Silence, your teary response
Eyes wide open
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Khumo Mhlanga
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Khumoetsile Mhlanga 15 January 2009

To everyone reading this poem, here's a bit of background: Her name was Lindiwe - literally meaning 'awaited'. When her son was barely 2 years old, she suffered from a bout of severe meningitis: the previous doctors that she had consulted failed to diagnose her correctly. A lot of people thought that she had dies from HIV, but she was confirmed to be HIV negative at the time of her son's birth and also at the time of her death. She collapsed one day. Went into hospital and had some contraption put around her neck as a form of treatment. In the end, she suffered a meningitis-induced stroke which left her blind. She could hear everyone that came to visit her in those last lonely days in hospital - but from very far off. She could only release a tear as her way of letting people know that she was still in there. She died a week after admission into hospital. This is my tribute to her...and to her son - Nkululeko, which means 'Freedom'.

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