ek lê kaal op my rug
met my blou skryfboek
oop op my borskas
en my potlood wiegend
in my hand
ek verbeel hoe my borste
met melk begin uit-dein
en my vars-gepende woorde begin voed
sodat elkeen vet en gesond
kan styg uit die papier
maar
voordat ek my woorde op hul eie
die wêreld laat inloop
hou ek hulle vir een laaste keer
styf teen my bors
sodat die klop van my moedershart
helder in hulle ore kan klink
dat wanneer hulle my
eendag gaan opsoek
hulle my koors-stigtelike pols sal herken
en jubelend in my arms sal hardloop
mother's heart
i lie naked on my back
with my blue writing book
open on my chest
and my pencil cradled
in my hand
i imagine how my breasts
begin to surge with milk
and start to feed my freshly penned words
so that everyone of them
can rise fat and healthy from the paper
but
before i let my words loose
into the world
i clutch them firmly for one last time
against my chest
so that the beating of my mother's heart
can sound brightly in their ears
that when they will look me up one day
they will recognise my feverish pulse
and jubilantly run into my arms
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