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Don’t talk.
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Don’t think.
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Don’t try.
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Just breathe.
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Be.
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Stop.
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Cut the noise.
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Take off the weights.
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Listen to Truth in silence.
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Ssssssssssssh
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Listen.
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Feel faith.
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Sssssssssh
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Let Love approach you.
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Wait again.
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Behold.
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Behold the Light.
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Filling you up.
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Flooding you with joy.
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Quieting you with shalom.
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Be lifted by resurrection living hope.
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Be strengthened by the joy of life.
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Selah.
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Shalom.
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Go in peace.

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.











