Diamond in the Grass (pt 1)

‘Pamela pull this down biko, put a slip underneath, see your big bottom, your skirt is raising at the back’Pamela’s mother spoke quickly and then paused. Pamela felt naked, her mothers gaze narrowing, trailing across her ’s’ shaped spine. ‘It is good oh, we are grateful to God, my daughter looks well well’ Pamela’s mother [...]

And if this world were mine

I recently discovered something startling about myself.
You see, I finally understood why I would almost recoil from a complement paid to me on a day when I did not feel beautiful. Let us not confuse this with outer beauty, because all this requires is a change of clothing or a little pampering and the confidence [...]

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There She stands, I know, waiting for me
Ever patient, ever loving does she not see?
I cannot look her in the eye for the crooked ways in which I grow
I am no longer the same and my soul shudders from sorrow.

This is unnatural!

My sun has fled and my moon has died
I was never drawn [...]