For My Mind Poem by Thabani Khumalo

IF I WERE LET TO BE A NATURAL BEING
I WOULD’NT CHARGE WHAT I DID’NT KNOW
BUT, IN FACT, I AM WHAT’S ENGENDERED
OF ME TO BE –I'M A FETTERED SLAVE.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THERE IS A NEED TO BE JUST BE,
JUST LIKE THE WILD, TO HEED NATURE’S LEAD?
BUT WHERE ARE OUR MINDS IF NOT SOMEWHERE
UNDER THE SKY ON A PROMISED GROUND
BY PEOPLE LIKE US WHO CLAIM OUR WORLD
ON IMPERIOUS WAYS AND MAKE US PROCURE?
WE’RE LEASING, WE'RE BLIND, WE’RE DELUDED,
WE'RE MISLED TO THINK IT IS PROSPERITY.

FOR YOU I CRIED, FOR YOU I SCRAPPED,
FOR YOU, I SEARCHED ALL OVER THE PLACE
THE EXQUISITE SITE THE STARS ABOVE
SHOWED ME THE SIGNS I COULD’NT READ.

THAT WAS MY FAULT, THAT WAS MY FOLD,
IT WAS MY FLOP THAT I DIDN'T KNOW.
YOU BETTER NOT CRY, YOU'D BETTER NOT CARE
BUT DO NOT DECRY ANYTHING YOU DON’T KNOW.