Backyard Crisis Poem by Phillip Nine Mafunga

I am so good a man to ignore
I am the only man who can ignore me
No man can kill me or cremate me
No man can defeat me
Because I have no enemy or enemies
I am the only man whom I am enemies with

I am a grown man now but never old to explore the future
For all my stories are yet to be told
But I know now that what is true for me is just for me
History hangs things in my backyardI may not want people to know
Well that is me; the only man that can compete with me and still lose
I am the only man who befriended me despite and still lived

It's strange how I love things that I despise
The very things that I disposed of still cling on me like tick
Yea, I am the man I have lived with the rest of my life
It's never been easy but the relationship stuck even though
I have gotten so used to it that I talk to me more often than before
I am the only man I am friends with permanently despite it all.

I love me!
PHILLIP NINE MAFUNGA
7 April 2020