#meaning – ZAKI MLABA

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What’s Your Word: Exhausted

What’s Your Word: Exhausted

Zaki Mlaba 2019-11-06 2019-11-06

Too much
Of too much
Of everything.

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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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What’s Your Word: Alive

What’s Your Word: Alive

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-05 2019-07-05

What a simple and strange concept;
Unasked for and forced upon.

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What’s Your Word: Silence

What’s Your Word: Silence

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-05 2019-07-05

When the world is moving
And you are unable
It thinks of leaving.

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What’s Your Word: Elusive

What’s Your Word: Elusive

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-05 2019-07-05

Always felt like I was trying
To catch the wind.

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What’s Your Word: Dream

What’s Your Word: Dream

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-05 2019-07-05

A world within.
A world without.

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What’s Your Word: Pain

What’s Your Word: Pain

Zaki Mlaba 2019-07-05 2019-07-05

It will always be
What it needs to be.

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What’s Your Word: Disenchantment

What’s Your Word: Disenchantment

Zaki Mlaba 2019-06-11 2019-06-11

Lost myself
Trying to find you.

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What’s Your Word: Inside

What’s Your Word: Inside

Zaki Mlaba 2019-06-05 2019-06-11

Home.
That feels too foreign.

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Meaning. Part 4: Scar

Meaning. Part 4: Scar

Zaki Mlaba 2018-12-20 2018-12-20

‘We are strong and enduring. We are also deeply scarred’ – Audre Lorde Scar Noun a mark left on the skin or within …