A Little Boy Poem by Thabani Khumalo

I knew for sure that lazy people grunt
And keep on peaking from their severe boredom -
Somewhere down close to body death.
I came to figure this when I was still a little boy:
Lazy people deserve a feeling of utter shame.

I am needful of the ear for witch to tell a secret to hear.
Open your heart and hear my words of absolute fear.
Deliver the burden of the weight on my shoulders that i carry.
I swear by golly and by golly alone I swear,
I am at the crossroads with fate and the absolute destiny.
Another man gave away his daughter for a loss or a gain
And a queer lady cried in the arms of a wicked wizard -
She needed to mourn for a severe loss of deeper love.

I am facing my life at an uncertain end
And i wander alone into the quiet darkness.
I am waiting for nudge on my shoulder -
A young weird lady calling me by
For a brief amount of time just to have coitus fun.
I dream about that on each and every dragging night.
I am a dreamer of nightmares and spells of the forlorn.
I am the nightmares of tomorrow by my dreams of yesterday.
I don't know how a person was made that he should easily forget.
The tears I cried every night: I remember when I was a little boy right -
I was a hopeless victim of the lonely night -
I was a little boy with many deep sorrows.

I am an assembly of vicious ills.
I need to receive a revelation from above -
I need to assume an extremely higher power.
I am still waiting for my set hour.
I am waiting for my moment in the shining day:
A perfect scenario with all the colors bright.
Heavens know from the very core of my heart,
I wish for a beautiful girl.