The Message Poem by Jabulani Mzinyathi

gone against the grain
shooting the messengers

the message there still
immortalised by the messengers

long after the departure
singers and players of instruments

the messages still around
massaging our eager minds

the dreams, visions, hopes
the compass we still bear

the messages long immortalised
long after the messengers are interred

for in the beginning was the word
not the story of the hen and the egg