Family, a poem by Rethabile Masilo project

I am a black woman with straight hair trying,
I am my brother�s sister with a fist up. He is my brother
with his fro down; the only ones in this room of the world
with regret? I will not forget how our mother pulled
a heated iron comb through her hair, taking out
the kinks that used to adorn heads of queens
and kings, with the hope of ironing out her life.
I am a sister with straight hair trying to survive.
My father ran the hundred meters and was first,
he picked the shotput of his life in his hands,
like a pumpkin, and lifted it to his shoulder,
all the while saying nothing. That night we would eat.
I�m a black woman with straight hair trying.
He never said anything when the Englishman
looked down on him on the street or at work,
he would type letters, write articles for the office
and classify them in the right places, as all the time
he swallowed his bile to place later at the bottom
of the stack but in a separate file. My siblings
have kinks in their hair, hard fists, and the patience
of our father, who chased the Englishman
out of Lesotho and was stunned when the country
turned around and trained its guns on him. I am
a family of every attainable kind of hairstyle dying.
We found his bile file one day while spring cleaning.20/12/2019
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