Enigmatic
We both have secrets
Mine are wrapped in my rolls
Stored away in the unfolds of skin
Yours are in your pipe
I taste those secrets
Bitter, with an underlining tangy sweetness
Why you so ashamed?
I know you're fingers have lingered longer in other ravines
I respect non-conformity
Let's go through a process of unnormalising the doctrine
Of questioning the social order
And claim space that already exists for bodies like ours
Bodies presented from ivory towers
I am shocked that you know exactly how to handle the heavy that is my body
But...
You're taller than I imagined
Even though You don't sit like a boy
Or stand like a man
Mine are wrapped in my rolls
Stored away in the unfolds of skin
Yours are in your pipe
I taste those secrets
Bitter, with an underlining tangy sweetness
Why you so ashamed?
I know you're fingers have lingered longer in other ravines
I respect non-conformity
Let's go through a process of unnormalising the doctrine
Of questioning the social order
And claim space that already exists for bodies like ours
Bodies presented from ivory towers
I am shocked that you know exactly how to handle the heavy that is my body
But...
You're taller than I imagined
Even though You don't sit like a boy
Or stand like a man
Amazwana
Thumela amazwana