I Shall Flourish And Prosper Poem by Thabani Khumalo

The world has sought to crush me down,
to make nothing out of my hopeful efforts and dreams,
to make nothing out of my future and myself.

Evil-intentioned people bestow all their means
to try and bring about my decline.
Efforts to improve myself, to become happier in life,
have become subject to onslaught.

I will find a way to directly handle them all at once.
I know they've always been afraid of my talents and capabilities,
they are all convinced that my success could mean harm to them,
which is why they seek to reduce me downward.

Mad men have plotted enmity in my name because of either prejudice or antipathy.
Even though they want to see me diminish from the face of the earth,
my hand will not be force to murder or destroy my own kind.
I will destroy all these people by simply flourishing with age.
I shall flourish and prosper.