#love – Page 2 – ZAKI MLABA

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What’s Your Word: Heavy

What’s Your Word: Heavy

Zaki Mlaba 2019-10-16 2019-10-16

The hardness held me.
The heavy engulfed me.

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What’s Your Word: Want

What’s Your Word: Want

Zaki Mlaba 2019-10-16 2019-10-16

I want to be looked at
And actually seen.

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When I think about your death. for toni

When I think about your death. for toni

Zaki Mlaba 2019-09-23 2019-09-23

You made me feel like I belong, beloved.
This black girl belongs.

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What’s Your Word: Enough

What’s Your Word: Enough

Zaki Mlaba 2019-08-30 2019-08-30

Believe that you are
Worthy of this life.
Worthy of love.
Always more love.

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What’s Your Word: Accept

What’s Your Word: Accept

Zaki Mlaba 2019-08-02 2019-08-02

You.
It will always be you.

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What’s Your Word: Perhaps

What’s Your Word: Perhaps

Zaki Mlaba 2019-08-02 2019-08-02

What if.
Perhaps.
Just maybe.

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What’s Your Word: Intense

What’s Your Word: Intense

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-12 2019-07-12

Does it move as more?
Does it move with more?

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What’s Your Word: Feel

What’s Your Word: Feel

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-12 2019-07-12

Will reveal
What needs to be seen.

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What’s Your Word: Loss

What’s Your Word: Loss

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-12 2019-07-12

Why is the measure of love;
Loss?

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When I Think: About Unrequited Love

When I Think: About Unrequited Love

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-12 2019-07-12

So hopeful.
So helpless.