Feint and Margin

I want to take a needle… And draw all the melanin from my skin. Store it in a jar and put it on a coffee table- For all the world to see that what makes me different Can be traced underneath a microscope. And maybe the only way I can learn to be human Is [...]

To accept bribery and political corruption; To accept social inequality and injustice; To accept social mobility and access to jobs Based on party and personal “connections,” Based on “protocol” from higher offices, Because they’ve become part of our society, Is a sign of giving up on the future of our motherland. How can you walk [...]

Today Smile and make it contagious Eat like it won’t make you fat Drink like wine was made for you. Listen like nobody talks crap. Laugh like it’s the only way to express yourself. Pray like God stops the earth just to hear you Live like life takes orders from you Dance like a Pro [...]

                I’ve spent what feels like a lifetime trying to Think of what I could give you  that would make your life on earth a little easier.                                        So- here’s a pot of glue. Because trust me, you will be broken. Most of us are just mosaics with a [...]

It’s so much easier to say I don’t care anymore, so much easier to say I don’t feel anymore, or I don’t want this or that anymore, so much easier to even say I can’t love anymore, or I’ve giving up on this or on that… The truth is I do care, I do feel, [...]

“The best time to slap a King, Is when a fly settles on his cheek”. We salute the Generals Dismiss our morals Mock our laws, Dent our image with unidentifiable claws And arrest Christ with sin. We blindfold wrongs Call them heroes, and shout their praise with angelic songs. We fear and hail thou O [...]

The gang rape of a Soweto teen and the circulation of a video of the crime, was perhaps one of the most disturbing things to happen in  South Africa in a long time. It made me wonder, what makes a man? Do men know?   Dear Son, I am planting words like seeds along your [...]

In tattered clothes we come Journeying from soul’s sorrow-land With Harmattan torn lips and hearts With amputated feet and hands and dreams drained from porous minds We come… Journeying through times trivial trials And unscrupulous leaders betrayals Consumed by foe and fear As we live in denial of liberal liberation and fervent fair trial For [...]

The echoes of gun fires which brought shivers down our spine when first heard at dawn, is now the melodies that accompanies our feast when we sit to dine as a family The echoes of life… rob souls in every single strike. The echoes… Now louder than when we first heard Now monstrous than a [...]

I’m swimming I‘m swimming I’m losing my breath I’m swimming I’m swimming I ‘m losing my breath I’m drowning I’m drowning And calling And calling… Losers, pretenders, grave looters Dream killers, armed raiders Stealers and borrowers, debt inventors Border denials, bootlickers and war rangers Unforgotten dungeons and dens Liars and heartbreaks, gays and lesbians Child [...]