Our Hero Gone!

In the distance

I keep a vigil

His last breath

Gone

A leader

We will always remember

Hamba Kahle!

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

The permanent sleep

Found our hero

Reconciliation

You gave new meaning

Our liberation

PEACE

A victory

We will always

Keep

In the loving memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, son, father, husband, grandfather,  friend, leader and victor!

BY SBNH, 2013-12-05.

Scratching

Bitter

The voice of true reason

Open

The path to informed choices

Sweet

The taste of universal freedom

Powerful

The acceptance of authenticity

Easy

The conversations that connects us

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2013-12-03.

A Mother’s Bargain – paying it forward

I am not her

(and)

She is not me

We waged a war

Splitting

Every battle’s victories

She kept a bargain

We never (really) made

Her wage labour

In return

For my

Education

She is not me

(and)

I am not her

We wage a war

Splitting

Every battle’s victories

I keep my deal

In a bargain we never (really) made

Her Education

In return

For my

Life’s labours

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2013-12-02. Yesterday, I did some quick sewing at home and took the time ‘to iron the seams and do a proper job’. It took me back to my mother behind the sewing machine. How much energy and effort she put into her work. It made me reflect on how we used to have this battle of wills. She vowed that we should never be workers on a factory floor. We used to argue over nothing and everything. Now I am a mother who can argue with her daughter over nothing and everything. It is also a realisation that we did not have to work on a factory floor, but it does not mean the work life is easy or without complications.

Looking on

I’m lost in the language 

Of your understanding

Grappling this strangeness

Navigating itself

Through

My firm identity

Consciously aware of my status

A breathing

Living

Questioning

Entity

I navigate

The strangeness of my vision

This disconnectedness

Settles like a stranger

In an unfamiliar shelter

Craving the value of its protection

I yearn

To break down the walls

Creating complete consciousness

Not just

Minor brilliance

I navigate

The void between knowledge and self-awareness

Nothing is ever completely known

We tolerate some level of uncertainty

Consciousness

Seldom leads to complete tragedy

A sense of engagement

Always nurtures

Natural commitment

Much more than

Superficial self-actualisation

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2013-11-28.

Conflicted

Identity, place and space

We constantly grapple with

Authenticity, reality and royalty

A daily struggle reinvented

Expectations, dreams and wishes

We nurture relentlessly

Injustices, losses and pain

We like burdens carry

Love, hope and life

Is what keeps us going

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2013-11-28.

November Sunshine

The promise of summer’s heat

Lingers

Early morning

In the tree tops

Catching a glint

In the unseen eye

Chasing

Yesterday’s blues away

Nurturing

Hope awakening

Blue skies

Always seem to offer

Protection

Perhaps

A familiarity

More than benefits direct

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2013-11-13.

Beauty

In the heart of simplicity

We find a deep complexity

In the soul of complexity

We find easy simplicity

In the consciousness of reality

We find a window into intellectuality

For Nina Bergman, thank you for keeping us real! 2013-11-04.