I Will Overcome
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Jalen Heuskes, Grade 10, Home Schooled - SA
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Poetry
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2016
Excellence Award in the 'Word Zone 2016' competition
Speak now, this is your chance
I can’t speak through the dryness of my throat,
Like a desert with no sign of life,
Why can’t I speak?
Sweaty palms sweaty face enough to make a river run
I’m drowning,
My mouth is zipped like a bag impossible to release the treasure inside
if you only knew, if I only knew, who am I? what am I?
Blank as a book with no words yet the words are there
d.y.s.l.e.x.i.a I will overcome