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222: have faith

[djglory]

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The Continent, Last Night

Sivad Malik “Girlfriends” S3E12

Last night I laid within your continent

Sought salvation from frustration

Within your loving nation

Found the true meaning of homeland

When you let me in

Swahili tongue knew I hadn’t been there before

And kissed for me to stay awhile

I did you one better and kissed forever, in your country

Then you let me tap your virgin drum

Releasing echoes of me being free

Being free in you.

Free to run through your countryside

Touching jasmine, dropping weed

Free to nibble on your Nigerian

Blow on your Botswana

Eat your Opia till there’s no more Opia left

Won’t be any leftovers when I’m done

Won’t be anything when I’m done

Just remembrance of that night when I laid within your continent

Seeking salvation from frustration within your loving nation

And that’s all we’ll have

That, and a few thousand orphans to read this poem

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Judy Bowman

[kaalbela]

Jujihun 주지훈

[thawabuponthawab]

“My Lord has always been kind to me.”

19:47

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[aquariumdrunkard]

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown artists, Fourteen African statues, effegies

[seasonofgiving]

Many deaths and rebirths in one lifetime

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

[zegalba]

[sisteroutsiders]

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

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Alhamdulillah I made it to the end of my first Ramadan

[tulipsofthemorning]

[beyourselfchulanmaria-deactivat]

Ikebana by Chi Kim Vu. photo © Allyson Chong