Your Life is Priceless
[an excerpt]
By Phumzile Zwane
Your Life is Priceless
Your life has no currency
A single rand* is not worth your dignity
Pricing your body cannot define your identity
Avoid affinity and lift your own integrity.
Human figured minds, myopic about their immoral lives
Why they can’t just move away from these shattered lives.
Shipments of humans treated as objects in exchange of a decent life.
Selling minds, selling lives, ripping away dreams.
Their hearts cold,
worth hatred
shifted to their toes
and yet the truth remains untold.
Equal in brain that drains, the pains running through their veins
This is a new generation,
with less integration,
with no future intensions,
inspiration,
intuition is not introspected
This freedom is taken for granted
These temples are no longer respected
Our minds are objected
You are not for sale
You cannot be bought, neither sold
For God owns your soul
Remember God in all cases
Every season for every reason
For God knows your life is priceless
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*The Rand is the currency in South Africa
About Phumzile:
Phumzile Cynthia Zwane is 17 years old and a Grade 12 pupil at Nellmapius Secondary school in Pretoria, South Africa. She hopes to pursue a career in radiography or geology. She loves writing poetry in her spare time.
Image credit: Peaceful, by Carol O’Driscoll
If you only know one thing about me, I’d love for you to know this: I love Jesus, justice and living juicy.
I also happen to drive a minivan and drink my lattes plain. (My life is exciting enough!)
Nineteen years ago, I moved from Taiwan to Canada to marry Scott. We have two teenagers, a preteen, a Bernese Mountain dog and a restaurant. (Ask Scott to tell you our love story.)
In 2010, I founded SheLovesmagazine.com and it has now grown to include a Dangerous Women membership community, a Red Couch Bookclub, events and gatherings. I’d like to think of it as curating transformational spaces for women in community. I long for women to be strong in our faith and voice, so we can be advocates for God’s heart for justice here on earth.
As an Afrikaner woman, born and raised in South Africa during Apartheid, my story humbly compels me to step out for justice and everyday peacemaking. I have also seen firsthand the impact injustice has had on the lives and stories of women around the world. I refuse to stay silent.
I am anti-racist and also a recovering racist. I am a Seven on the Enneagram, an INFP and I mostly wear black, with a dash of animal print or faux fur.
