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    Flaws and All
    Flaws and All
    Flaws and All
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    Flaws and All

    By Sasta Kuppan

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    Flaws and All is a treasury of poems and prose spread across four integral forces that make up the human condition:

    The Mind, Heart, Body and Soul.

    It journeys with the readers through loves lost and loves rediscovered, quirks and ideas, grief and belief.

    Rooted in art and self love, Flaws and All also deals with conflict and mortality.

    It does not fear emotion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSasta Kuppan
    Release dateNov 22, 2018
    ISBN9780463279038
    Flaws and All
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    Sasta Kuppan

    "Sometimes you love, Sometimes you learn"From an early age, Sasta has written poetry, taking the leap into open mic performances through Writer's Bloc International in February 2018, which led to national performances onvarious stages. She has performed on Gauteng radio stations, broadcasting her poetry to a wide South African audience. She is now the Chief Operations Officer of this Johannesburg based poetry association.In 2018, her poetry - written through various periods in her life - was published in her collection "Flaws and All". The volume of poems is inspired by love and heartache, and has been well-received by readers.In addition to her collection, Sasta's writing addresses social issues around gender, race and equality, the patriarchy and humanity. Easy on the ears, her poems nonetheless run deep and have an uncanny ability to tug at the heartstrings.Sasta is also the "Poetry Curator" for Chasing Dreams Publishing, working alongside the company which shares the vision and ideology of giving everyone an opportunity to have their voices heard.

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      Flaws and All - Sasta Kuppan

      Weapons

      I write in order to heal, not to hurt.

      Face Yourself

      For the things that tear us into two

      That force us to face

      And then truly see ourselves

      These are the things that define who we are

      The earth shattering

      Gravity yielding

      Breath snatching

      Complexity

      That is

      You.

      Story of the Mind

      We are everything we never imagined we could be

      We've been brave

      We've been brilliant

      But we've also been torn apart

      In order to heal

      First we must hurt

      And break

      And see no way out

      Perfect porcelain has no place

      In the world of the prodded, pried and persecuted

      We are almost everything the world has defined us as

      As insecure

      Insignificant

      Invaluable sentiments of circumstance

      They don't see the solidity in these scars

      They don't feel the progression of the by-product of this pain

      They don't understand how good it is to know

      That we will never be as broken as we were the first day life pushed us

      And pushed

      And pushed

      Until we eventually caved in

      And allowed them to define us as

      Hollow

      Helpless

      Lost…

      From the outside it is easy

      Easy to see the weakness

      To call it forth from within us

      And shame us for how bare it makes us seem

      Barren to all good things

      Sheltered from the light

      But we are not bad people

      Just people

      Who bad things have happened to

      Around

      In spite of…

      In this, we do not lose God's favour

      If anything, we are the chosen few

      Chosen to endure worldly grievances

      For a Godly purpose

      We soldier through

      We are the passive force

      Of a greater agenda

      We are the greater good

      Our circumstances,

      A necessary evil

      But we

      Will

      Soldier

      Through.

      Sure, we will bruise

      And I'm certain the battles are not all won

      But the war?

      It's a given.

      Our voice will resonate in their heads

      The way ours never quiet

      It will tell a story of the mind that can never be still

      They will hear us.

      They will know our worth.

      Selfless Armour

      Remember the good in the things that break you.

      To The Parents of the

      First Man I Loved

      and His Stories

      You were kind to me

      This I remember

      And then one day

      You were not.

      You listened to the way he twisted every event

      To make himself the victim

      To make his actions just.

      You heard one side of the story

      And I heard many stories from my side

      Of the love that wasn't returned

      Of how time had killed your flame

      Again and again

      These weren't the kind of problems we faced

      There was too much passion

      Too strong a flame

      It seemed,

      However,

      I was the only one getting burnt.

      I admit,

      I wasn't entirely innocent

      My greatest offence was caring too much.

      I loved so hard I convinced myself

      That I was being loved the same way in return.

      I never walked away…

      Instead, I chose to ignore his gift

      Of effortlessly spinning stories

      To make his situations favourable.

      He loved to have you at the mercy of his thrills

      So, I tell you this:

      One night he chose to raise his fist

      Changed his mind

      And wrapped his hands around my

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