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What is happening?

Dineo Portia Motaung 1994 (Johannesburg)

Free verse
What is happening?
I am becoming unraveled
I am overwhelmed but not moved
I am shocked to the core but still the same
Could it be that God has graced me?
Me as I am today?
Unworthy, unprepared but loved?
How can it be that in this moment,
So drunk and so careless
That God chooses to speak to me?
What am I to make of this?
Am I crazy or is this real?
What is this madness where everything is so crystal clear yet it simply cannot be?

-Dineo Portia Motaung
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Submitted by on July 26, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXXBXXXXBXXB A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 460
Words 103
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 1
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