If You Look Closely Poem by Letter From My Mother's Womb

If you look closely

Poverty ranks with wealth,
Hustle with laziness,
Similarly, Planet earth
Earth with water

If you look closely,
In this world,
Things happen entirely,
Entirely different as they should.

One hopes for the best,
Looking forward to the future with the past,
At a later stage, experience the worst
Expectations high, less effort taken

If you look closely,
Often we share weird relationships,
Where we are close to each other,
But never meet, like the parallel lines

One wishes to be successful,
But find work stressful,
This is one of the weaknesses,
Weakness we have to develop a strength in

If you look closely,
Mistakes come with lessons,
Scars with a reminder,
Reminder to not go back again...

If you look closely,
Good is closely related to bad,
Kindness to rudeness,
This is sad.

Sadness to sorrow,
Sorrow to pain,
To the saints,
Even this may be difficult to deal with.

Keitumetse Mokhahlane
@2019