{"id":24428,"date":"2020-11-15T06:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24428"},"modified":"2022-11-15T05:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:23:35","slug":"beginning-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24428","title":{"rendered":"Beginning nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24431 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bom-boy-with-workers-and-traffic-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bom-boy-with-workers-and-traffic-.jpg 530w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bom-boy-with-workers-and-traffic--300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Beginning nowhere<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So then, we continue from the end\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Mabuded\u2019ubumnyama<br \/>(Let the darkness fade)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Arms crossed\u00a0<br \/>in prayer to gods who\u00a0<br \/>no longer know how to hear us<br \/>we stand at the edge of darkness<br \/>bearing a forlorn witness\u00a0<br \/>to our own slow-motion descent\u00a0<br \/>into night without stars\u00a0<br \/>or moons\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>We lift our hands to the skies<br \/>Makudedubumnyama<br \/>kuvelukukhanya<br \/>Makudedubumnyama\u00a0<br \/>Kuvelukukhanya<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The pounding of our hearts\u00a0<br \/>levitates us to the weightlessness\u00a0<br \/>of questions whose answers\u00a0<br \/>land like boulders\u00a0<br \/>on our shoulders<br \/>It was never the light\u00a0<br \/>but us who left\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24432 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-cadets-with-harbinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-cadets-with-harbinger.jpg 530w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Street-cadets-with-harbinger-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>(Photo Credit: Jane Alexander \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/artthrob.co.za\/99july\/artbio.htm\">artthrob<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning nowhere So then, we continue from the end\u2026 Mabuded\u2019ubumnyama(Let the darkness fade) Arms crossed\u00a0in prayer to gods who\u00a0no longer know how to hear uswe stand at the edge of darknessbearing a forlorn witness\u00a0to our own slow-motion descent\u00a0into night without stars\u00a0or moons\u00a0 We lift our hands to the skiesMakudedubumnyamakuvelukukhanyaMakudedubumnyama\u00a0Kuvelukukhanya The pounding of our hearts\u00a0levitates us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2872],"class_list":["post-24428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-siphokazi-mthathi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24428"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26623,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428\/revisions\/26623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}