{"id":1046,"date":"2015-10-17T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/povojournal\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2015-10-17T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T14:08:53","slug":"these-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/these-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"These Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,<br>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,<br>The gates that keep me from seeing behind the back of my television set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost didn\u2019t take a walk in South Africa<br>It just reeked too much of the blood red<br>Stained on my newspaper<br>The stench of exaggerated half-truths&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost didn\u2019t believe in her sanity<br>They made her language sound aggressive<br>And I never thought I would discover myself<br>In a language unfamiliar to my tongue<br>They reduced her to a flesh eating machine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was afraid to step off the aeroplane<br>I thought I would fall on a knife and become<br>A dead sensation with a complicated court case<br>Hovering over the memory of me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And these borders that God knows who created<br>These politics and poll tricks<br>That limit me to specific space, time and mind frame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,<br>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,<br>I thought I was too fat for to go to the beach<br>Too plus to fit in a bikini<br>They led me to deny my feet the chance to encounter that deep<br>Soothing soft naked sand<br>I deprived my soul the waters because of them<br>I almost didn\u2019t rub shoulders with my sister<br>I almost didn\u2019t see Azania\u2019s face in Vangi\u2019s eyes<br>I almost didn\u2019t look at Quaz\u2019s hair<br>And feel the history of his growth<br>I almost didn\u2019t see Nigeria\u2019s foolishness in Dagga\u2019s silence<br>I almost didn\u2019t take a walk with Page<br>I almost didn\u2019t meet Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,<br>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set<br>I almost wasn\u2019t here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,The gates that keep me from seeing behind the back of my television set. 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