Enkundleni By Ritha Mcube I’ve … I have seen beauty. While my eyes were closed I saw beauty. I saw beautiful shades of beauty, beauty…. I saw beautiful shades of beauty. I saw the most beautiful bead work, the most high, I was high on the highest of highs…..bead work. I saw my people in traditional isiXhosa attires. I saw beauty … mara my simple mind couldn’t explain such beauty ngoba I’ve never seen…. such… I’ve … I have felt happiness. No! Not happiness Joy .Was it Joy? No it wasn’t. It was contentment. I have felt something greater than contentment. While I laid on Inkukho. I have seen beautiful shades of green… green grass underneath us. Us! My people and I we sat there. I was …. I was among them I was with them… they surrounded me …with ingqayi they shared a drink while my eyes were closed. I saw them... I was safe. I had security. I was warm. I had my people I have never felt such warmth. The kind… the kind you feel with your heart. No! not the heart The intuition? No … not that too I … I just felt their warmth. Eish !My vocabulary is failing me once more I have never seen them mara … mara I felt like I knew them .Like they knew me. Like they have met me mara, I felt…. I felt like, they… they knew me. Yes they knew me ngoba they chose me to be, to be theirs, to continue their journey Their presence was familiar mara I have never met them never mara I felt their admiration,… their validation …their acknowledgement. I have felt their deepest love, With no sound in quietness they spoke With No medicine they healed me With no speech I heard them They took away the grudges the anger the limitations ….they they took away my Will I had no will, I had no control, I had no fear I …I have never felt like that mara mara whatever it was it… was great. I’ve … I have seen myself When I had my graduations I saw myself. I saw myself in a black robe covered with an Isiswati Cloth. The kind … the kind with black… white … and red… black …white…and red. Yes I am the Godly African Queen with my black Locked Crown I reign… I have seen my Locked Crown covered with that, hat, EWE… LE YEZIFUNDISWA Mine had beads Red and White Yes Red and White I saw my ankles with these colours too Red and White… Red and White Enkundleni bendinabo ooDlamini,Jama ka Sjadu, oongxib’inoboya AmaZizi Amnyama nenkomo zawo, ooFakade.
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