Historically Poem by Okello Baloyi

As I thought I was in love, I witnessed my heart being ripped by someone I loved dearly. As she walked away and I remain lonely and miserable, and there I was, feeling void. Left for someone who's richer than I was, used as a bar code, I felt!

Pride crawled into my life as a worm tryna get something to eat, I stood there not knowing that I'm just a property of the world as well as everything in it! I neglected what was mine over subjected things and out of maturity I associated myself with forks who had price tag.

I once became an outsider to my family, a foreigner to people who were close to me, a stranger to myself. I searched and repeatedly to find the cause of what has happened to me, but it all pointed back to me, as I never took anything seriously.