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Jill Scott’s article [How an artist connects with her song - September 2005] did it for me. Maybe its because I went through same thoughts after I became a father.
Since birth, my son Ethan enjoys lying on me with an ear close to my chest.
I always wondered why? Maybe it felt like a cushion since I have a hairy chest, I thought. He is four years old now and recently I discovered how intently he listened to my chest. Before I could ask him (telepathy?) he answered by saying: “Daddy, I can hear your heart dancing. I Love listening to your heart.”
I thought of Jill Scott who was certain the first thing she ever heard was the sound of her mother’s heart, a sure and unrelenting rhythm that was both life-sustaining and calming. She says she hears a symphony in the click-clack of heels on a pavement, the rat-tat-tat in the conversation of friends, the wind in her ears and the children at play.
The prophet Kahlil Gibran wrote: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. In a way I believe that this is exactly what happened when he listened to my heartbeat. As a poet I believe the heart is an instrument and a source of life’s longing for itself; it helps us to tune in to the beat of the world.

Selwyn Milborrow]]> Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:36:00 EST http://Selwyn.tigblog.org/post/159665 http://Selwyn.tigblog.org/post/159663 (To Govan “Oom Gov” Mbeki)

You suffered the pain of oppression
and big brother wanted your life
while a nation in chains needed it.

You unshackled your mind
and freed its broken battered body
by capturing history on toiletpaper.

You were sharp as the spear of the nation
whose silenced voices pierced the eyes
of the world.

Now you share the resting place of the forgotten
and remnants of your last day echoes all around
Thina Sizwe Esimnyama
Hamba kakuhle qabane.

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