The young girl here is a student at Tabernacle Christian Academy in Ivory Park , a district in South Africa. I was honored because she shared her poetry with me. She talked about how she wanted to be a lawyer and a poet when she grows up. I think it only makes sense, as both require one to be a word warrior! Her poems were about womanhood, and god, and life and living, and when I listened had I closed my eyes I would have thoug I was listening to a 27 year old def poet, straight off of the Russell Simons series. She too, came from a single parent household, and as we shared creative energy I could feel her tapping into a piece of me. I know I will see her again, because she taught me that creativity Is surviving.
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