and shout in your face until my voice grows

hoarse

I will not be ignored, I refuse it

I will burden your body with heavy, heavy aches

and you will shoulder the burden alone, my dear Atlas I

will gleefully gnaw on your weary bones

until it is all you can do to not throw yourself into my abyss I

am not here to heal you

I am here to break your spirit and when I am done

I will come for the rest of you until there is nothing left

                                                                  
Sibongumusa Ncube was a transfer student from Zimbabwe.