Swollen face and bruised up eyes
A stranger’s fist on a red-light night
The unseen sores of a Mombasa bar
I hold my breath
It’s gone too far
But hope holds on
And drags my heart from between the sheets
My ropes come undone
Deep in my chest I feel its first beat
I won’t let my scars dictate my path
As I give up the ghosts of my wounded past
And the oil on my heart is a smile and a laugh
In the arms of a home where love is made to last
I was a tourist’s toy with absent eyes
I’d give my life just to feed my child
But love came in and took my hand
And wrote my name there in the sand
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