Sand Dune

By Melissa Morapedi

I have never seen a sand dune,
but I think I have an idea
of how my life would have looked as one…

See, my life as a sand dune would have started out as calm
with the love and light I received from my moon and sun.
Every waking moment, filled with warm rays and promises,
as though nothing in this world
could even dare to pick one grain of precious soil off my body.
I stood tall, I stood content
The world owed me nothing.

The tiny tremors I started to feel,
that I thought would fade away much quicker,
evolved into earthquakes.
I felt myself slip into the cracks
in the foundation of what once was
The kind world that I knew
completely shattered by the misplaced new.

It
was a tornado designed to bring chaos
to a world once so still.
It scattered pieces of me
everything
and everyone
that I thought I knew.
As my core hid in the eye of the storm
my sun and moon were clouded
under the loud thunder of opinions
and words of wisdom.

The rain poured
and cleansed the ground once more.
Although other disasters have threatened to be
time has brought back to me
fragments that built a bigger, stronger body.
I stand tall
and refuse to be shaken by the loss
that I had once thought could never be a part of my story.
My sun and moon now guide the way
building the little dunes
that are the best parts of me.

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Melissa Morapedi is a 31 year old Motswana female, who has always loved all forms of art, from drawing, to painting and even acting. She first read poetry in high school, and instantly took a firm liking to it. Her own writing began with poems when she was 14 years old and evolved into also writing song lyrics of her own.

More than anything, she has written to put feelings from this journey of life that she is on, that are usually difficult to vocally express, on paper. She is finally ready to allow other people into her little world, hoping those who experience it will somehow resonate with her work.

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