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Next Door
Next Door - Malika Ndlovu
Next Door
He enters
She falls
He circles
She murmurs
He invades
She whimpers
He flexes
She aches
He threatens
She resists
He abuses
He violates
She obeys
He triumphs
She burns
He sighs
She cries
He whispers
She knows
He exits
She unfolds
He tries
She forgives
He tries
She forgives
He tries
She forgives
She dies
He lives
from Born in Africa (Educall Publishers, 2000), © Malika Ndlovu 2000, used by permission of the author.