15.03.2021
This is what happens when women grace the capital.
Solidarity. Sisterhood. Strength in numbers.
Enough.
Wearing nothing but snakeskin
boots, I blazed a footpath, the first
radical road out of that old kingdom
toward a new unknown.
When I came to those great flaming gates
of burning gold,
I stood alone in terror at the threshold
between Paradise and Earth.
There I heard a mysterious echo
my own voice
singing to me from across the forbidden
side, I shook awake -
at once alive in a blaze of green fire.
Let it be known: I did not fall from grace
I leapt
to freedom.
~ The Autobiography of Eve by Ansel Elkins
c. Kerrie Basha 2021