Untitled - CSUN ScholarWorks - California State University, Northridge
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48<br />
I must have been five<br />
or one<br />
but I know 23.<br />
I must have been three<br />
when the fences of the house couldn't hold me.<br />
Like a leaf who lost ways<br />
in her branch,<br />
I grew thin<br />
but sunny.<br />
I must have been nine,<br />
when I collapsed in affairs of others<br />
loyalty was the year made by the sweetest of<br />
friends.<br />
I must have been six<br />
rainbowed Ethiopians clouded my cheeks<br />
promising the lateness in my beauty<br />
their whispers never outgrew me.<br />
I must have been eleven or twelve<br />
no, not thirteen, I was still there<br />
when sands of revolution<br />
poured in the outskirts of Nile<br />
I wasn't ready for war ...<br />
I must have been zero<br />
when Ma searched her belly for me<br />
it took months before she found me.
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