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38
Aflao, Ghana
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Muffled.
<p style="text-align: left;">She wonders if these walls would hold.</p><p style="text-align: left;">These concrete walls built by sweaty men, </p><p style="text-align: left;">Knowing they would get paid after the work is done.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Would these walls hold her scream.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She wants to indulge herself in voluntary madness.</p><p style="text-align: left;">To rip her clothes off, while she parades on the streets with her boobs swinging with each step she takes, and a patch of black grass between her thigh.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She wants to tell her boss to-' Fuck off!'</p><p style="text-align: left;">And come back to work tomorrow. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Would her purse contain her rage.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She feels like a castrated bull, with all this anger, she's only entertaining the crowd.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The feeling of powerlessness, when a man held a gun on her.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She empties her purse.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She also wants to empty her gut.</p><p style="text-align: left;">To yell at him- Be a gentle man!</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;">_</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;">On few occasions, she has dreamt of screaming.</p><p style="text-align: left;">No, she has dreamt of erupting like a volcano.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She has been dormant for too long.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Her steps are too gentle.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She wants to make the ground fear her steps.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Shiver in peril.</p><p style="text-align: left;">_</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;">Muffled sound.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Muffled dreams.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Muffled ambitions.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Muffled rage.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Too polite till you hit low self esteem.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Yes please,the you turn this way.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Head bowed till you develop a hunch.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Not sure if your right,</p><p style="text-align: left;">In this wrongful word.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Head buried to the ground.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Ostrichs don't fly.</p><p style="text-align: left;">But you dream of lifting off the floor.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Wanting to know what it means to take off.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It's only a dream.</p><p style="text-align: left;">You wake up, and you hunch again.</p><p style="text-align: left;">You say- yes please more than a bunch.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;">_</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;">He said, " write something on muffled sound."</p><p style="text-align: left;">I'm confused, not sure what he wants.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Does he envision something sexual or just a common poem.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I delve in, with the first memory I've of muffled sound,</p><p style="text-align: left;">Of a young girl who saw a dead woman at the church well.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She cried, calling the congregation's attention to what she's seeing.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She was told to hush,</p><p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps she's insane.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She's old now, working in an office.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Her office is located in a tower.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She'd imagined falling from the last office floor.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Hitting so hard to the ground.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She wants to die in a brief seconds, and gasp back to live.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It's only a joke, she tells herself.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Part of her knows how badly she wants it.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;">To see if the world cares,</p><p style="text-align: left;">If her seat is vacant.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p>
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