Family Of Best Friends. Poem by Thabani Khumalo

Look!
Family is meant for retaining a home
and homes are meant to add friends into family.
More than we can have in our understanding,
people are born with a natural affinity for the ways of love.
Either friend or family,
we all wake up to try and forge the best friendships.

The growth of the spirit or of a scientific mind
is dependent upon us collecting into a family of best friends,
and best friends only use friendly or the kindest words.
As for me, in the knowledge of what I've learned, I believe that poetry is alive.

Being in life occurs only if
the reference of insight is attached to the sight.
What you have prayed for in this life,
is to have something you may know as your true soul;

what you may understand to be
the cornerstone of your being is to have good views unlike others rife,
you are asking that the true abilities of your soul
transcend your view by giving you another set of eyes,
to cause you to see the world with an advanced clime of wariness.

The world you live in supposes that you would have transformed into evil;
the same glory befell one of the people they claim to exalt in worship,
on the mountain`s summit whereupon he invoked
the names of some of his dead ancestors but -
Jesus dimmed it a transfiguration.

Now to answer the words of this prayer of utter evil:
in order for one to be able to see with different eyes,
one ought to learn to listen to every person they meet
with a proper calculation and a rationing ability of every mind.

You will be surprised that every person you meet is the same.
If you can seek to technically pioneer joy in every personal being,
the love of the people will elevate you to the Cosmos
and life after that will be different for all time.