If People Fabricate Situations (In Answer To Koos A. Kombuis) Poem by Gert Strydom

If people fabricate situations
where you want to fit in
the culture, values and norms
(like in the voortrekkers or army)
of the Afrikaner

as if we are people
in whom everything is noted to book
who destroy ourselves
to fit into the system

you are totally lost
and maybe it’s in your own spirit
where the fear bites, bites
as if you yourself do not fulfil

do not know God, honour our serve Him
and systematically is busy destroying yourself
where you believe that Johnny has not died
from a overdose of drugs
and are just lying unconscious and you yourself
are existing half lifeless
as if you are standing at the forefront
of a new revolution
while really you are perishing like Johnny.


[References: voortrekkers: A youth organization like the boy scouts. Calvyn op hitte (Calvin on heat) by Koos A. Kombuis.]