She is dangerous
Daring every devil in her way
to make Love known
She is dangerous
She is often afraid
but
she is more afraid of not doing right
She is dangerous
She is often intimidated by the darkness
She fights with light
When she is intimidated she runs away
into the darkness she most fears
She does not wish it away
Into the danger
There she crumbles on the floor of humility
Often humiliated
Vulnerability becomes home
Where intimidation makes way for intimacy
There she yields her fears
Until Love finds her again
On that floor of humility
Where the prideful darkness is resisted
Where faith finds a friend to uphold
Where hope arises out of utter defeat
In the presence of darkness
a feast is provided
She eats love
endlessly
She feasts on love
and
Love makes her dangerous
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Image credit: Jonas Myrenås
Siki Dlanga is a woman who loves beauty, craves and needs beauty. The uglier the world becomes, the more Siki is fascinated by the function of beauty in society. She considers the knowledge of Jesus as the ultimate beautifier of the world. Siki has seen how beauty is often denied those who are denied justice and conveniently packaged for the privileged as though it were their human right to own it. She is beginning to contemplate that perhaps beauty is at the heart of any just cause. Post-apartheid South Africa is where she wrestles with the ugliness of gender based violence, racial injustice, inequality and other forms of beauty deficiencies including her own. Siki is an MA Political Communication graduate from American University in Washington DC. You can find her beautiful poetry books “Word of Worth” and “Siki’s Love Collection” on Amazon or Kindle.
