Contemplation

When we

Try to escape

Wishing

Our minds were light

Issues heavy

Finds a home

Creating scenes

Which might never

Come

When we

Try to capture

Playfully

Minds light

Issues interesting

Finds a home

Creating laughter

Which might just

Stay

By SBNH for Lin Li, enjoy your travels… youth is the time when we begin to see our true selves, 2014-06-26.

Revisiting old Territories

The pieces in the following post was inspired by at talk “Who is a moral person in South African township communities? This was one of the questions addressed by Associate Professor Elaine Rosa Salo in a lecture at NAI on 4 June. In the lecture she drew on her ethnographic study of gender, race and community (Manenberg on the Cape Flats).

It’s Personal

Forced removals

A disruption

Deeply personal

Its impacts still perilous

Freedom

A taste

Foreign

Forced on the corner

A group identity

Stamped in numbers

Its impacts still perilous

Freedom

An ideal

Alien

Forced to fit in

An idea common

Deeply individual

Its impacts still perilous

Freedom

A concept

Exposable

Forced to give back

An expectation

Everything has a price

Its impacts still perilous

Freedom

A ticket

Local

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-06-12.

Colour Coded

Trapped by their codes

Conservative

Protected by their religion

Moral

Lost in their constructed realities

Traditional

Caught in their borders of confinement

Separate

Freed by their choices

Liberal

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-06-12.

Spaces

Another way of looking

More than a post

The landing between doors

Social commentators

Moral deliberators

Living on the edge

Poverty

A common denominator

Another way of saying

More than a voice

The word on the street

Social mediators

Moral liberators

Living in the core

Pride

A common denominator

Another way of being

More than a choice

The face in the mirror

Social agitators

Moral mediators

Living to survive

‘Coloured’

A common denominator

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-06-12.

Mixed Identities/Moral Entities

Their rules

Moralised

A community

Where

The toughest

Dare to survive

Their behaviour

Moralised

A place

Where

Race and space

Naturally unify

Their lives

Moralised

A society

Where

Being emancipated

Equals Liberation

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-06-08.