Bio
Khayelihle Benghu is a nurse and emerging writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her poems has appeared on Ake Review, Metphrastics and Person of Interest.
Khayelihle Benghu
Salt Memory
The sea keeps everything
it cannot name
a ring, a bone,
the outline of a voice.
I walk the shore barefoot,
step into what remains
of someone else's goodbye.
The tide comes in
with its soft erasure,
rewriting loss
as glitter.
Salt clings to my skin,
a reminder that grief
does not dissolve,
only crystallizes,
waiting for the next wave.