Written piece
Tenderness
Sihle Ntuli
South Africa
About this piece
Written as a dedication to Azania.Too often we forget that this world does not belong to us alone; it is something that we all share.In the spirit of our interwoven thread, this sunrise song represents the possibilities of all we could still do together.
Tenderness
our sunset song.
our soft, our gentle, our tender
our Azania, our mother
our soil, our skin, our nature
of soft basslines amid an absent thunder
our dark continent
our hearts, our sullen chests
our violence, our hubris
our sisters, our brothers
our disruption, our hands
the tenderness of clouds
the sky and its opening
the vultures and their waiting,
our thick, our smooth
our destiny to be pruned
of crossroads we are facing
to go alone or together
of seeds and possibility
a dreamy field of lush green
umuntu ngabantu
our hope, our glory
our sunrise song.