Her being with its beauty and odds of interest
and shift had been shattered: it was threadbare.
Her young life was in a huge mess, in tatters,
it had reached a dead end, so Lethokuhle thought.
With an unwanted and unplanned pregnancy,
she had thought long and hard, and made a decree.
Her life was precariously suspended over a precipice:
a simple, limp and slim thread set to snap into oblivion.
It was a matter of time before she plunged
into obscurity, she had written a suicide note, too.
Dear mum, forgive me. I don’t want to disappoint or drain
you any longer. I had to. This load is too much for me. Letho.
A creepy but noble voice bellowed from a nearby cave:
Daughter, no, you haven’t thought hard enough. Stop!
Discard that silly suicide note, discard despair.
This is a turning point, turn away from self-hate.
Live up to the essence of your name, Lethokuhle,
Remember, you’re the bringer of beautiful things.
Storms,daily trials and flaws can sound and seem
like depths and depths of disapprovals and eternity.
Day-to-day they scream and seem
like a riotous, raging river of infinity.
They break, blind and blur with a sense
of despondency and disappointment.
Don’t be too hard on yourself, there is a finale
after which they will be an untold success story.
No haste but hope, life is a gift, these are brief hurricanes,
They can’t seize you in perpetuity unless you sanction them.
Please halt, and open your eyes, heart, mind and arms
to posterity and possibilities, gain access to your life.
You have an uncut, bright, beautiful and blessed life ahead.
You cannot just cut your life short for fear of being judged.
Wave good bye to scorn, fear, dejection and self-rejection.
Say bye to pitfalls that will get you misheard or misled.
Life is precious, live it with self-love, fullness and focus,
destined doors will be unbolted for you to enter and thrive.
Lethokuhle, edge your way to safety now, your name
means the provider of good things, not the fatalist!
Sweaty and twitchy, Lethokuhle who was suddenly shoved out of sleep,
vowed never to be a defeatist but a giver and defeater.
