The Women We See Poem by Thabani Khumalo

The one greatest personality on earth is still a woman.
By her orders they vow to give up their lives
and take a shortcut to the grave -
men buckle and go for war to count up corpses.
Still she doesn't yield until her cruel will has been realized and fulfilled.

While you are firmly headed towards an unsure end of the future today,
turn around for a while and remember past history:

She conjured the death of Michael Survitus upon a log
and gutted his live body with a conflagration of tough wood
when he had renounced a vicious religion of murderous tenets,
and of Mucus Garvey when he worked to shake the Negro people awake,

and of Mahatma Gandhi when he evoked the Indians - sentient,
and of Hitler when he created an engine for the people after a crippling war,
and of Kwame Nkruma when he proposed
the implementation of a United African Continent,
and of Malcolm X when about to split the United States into two factions of Race,

and of Bruce Lee when he led the world into transmutation,
and of Robert Marley when he correctly answered every enigma
of a mystic nature and called off a war
between two nations at the quaky edge of a tricky way to die,
and of Tupac Shakur when he wanted to be president because he felt that he could run a better and peaceful system,
and of Gadhaffi when he managed to overcome the prevailing fallacy about riches and wealth,

and of Tambo and of Biko when they refuted and fought to curb mental programming
and of the countless poets who always said
powerful words that brought the human spirit back to life.
Remember Sir Garfield Toad in his quest to build a well instituted Federation.
Who does a poet think it is that encramped his efforts of devine insight?
Julius may also go down and leave us the world flooding in our bitter tears,
just as did Mr Jackson the brother of Jennet.

Be terrified because She is the true beast incarnate -
the hunter and the eater of every good and holy man.
She ate the Christ in Jesus
and the Christ in prophet Mohammed
before She pilloried their legendary legacy to mockery
by the generations of little children in every primary school of the Earth.
The children are obeying the woman
and they are flourished by the glory of flounder.

What about you the women we see,
are you not hiding a superpower we cannot see?
Yet you moan in that women are abused by programmed men.
If the woman was never this seductively cunning,
the world would all be clear enough to be exceptionally intelligent.

This much I do know.