In My Skin Poem by Thabani Khumalo

I carry the cross in my skin -
I bear the being of my awful sin -
I carry the weight of my world upon my shrug.
My heart is deceiving
And my mind keeps on expanding
But the tattoos in my skin will remain and never change.

I've taken the highest measure
In the order of severe punishment.
In life I was passed by the love chapter
And I landed on a rock. I swallowed the dust and spit out the dense of darkness in my words.
I am the highest judge of the judgment day,
I am the ignorance that causes man to be afraid of the word of mouth.
I've become the serpent that scales the warm surface by dusk.
I am Satan, I am Lucifer.
I am the Devil incarnate.