As Secure As A Scout Knot Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

I live a life as secure as a scout knot
For I know not even one can break it easily.
I only worry about the time when things
Will be undone for the fingers that will
Undo the knot had better be clean.

I do not care about where it will be
That the first touch that undoes the
Knot will be for I am not one to worry
For they say worry did not kill a fat
Cat the way curiosity did.

I am set to rise with the thing I am
Tied to for only air separates me from
The reality of my next landing.
I seat secure as a scout know for I know
That on the day of the scout fire I will
Not be undone for who wants to tie this
Secure not again and destroy such a piece
Of work.

Only brides know that when they tie the knot
With the person who has offered to do the deed
Remain shivering for they let him do it and
They did not to a prenup for when trouble comes
Their knot will be so easily undone and they
Will lose everything worse still the love itself
For it sent them on a foolish trail.

Not me, I say as I go flying in the baggage
Carrier of the plane waiting for it to land
And then I discover what a trip it has been
For I felt the clouds at an altitude of
Three thousand feet and said God loves me
For I was very close to his heaven up there.
That is why I always sing Hallelujahs alone
For I do not want to take any fools along
With me lest their insecurity rubs into
My backbone and gets me undone.