Just This Recent Poem by Thabani Khumalo

Just this recent,
Yes indeed just lately I Rose up -
And yes I wonder how I came to rise to a higher view.
I remember now how everybody has forgotten everything about our Being
And this reversed order of nature wears my heart out with galactic worry.

Though the worry may be ancient and deeply sore;
A riding burden upon my soul and a drenched yomp of a penting climb;
A jungle meeting with a homosexual demon possessed by the horny Ghost,
I have grown to understand that it is all well.

I still don't remember why I can't think about things I have,
I don't remember how I came to disagree from the ground to the sky,
I don't remember when the silent universe forget to speak to me
And the neverending pain of a dark life is crippling but wisdom has taught me that it is all well.

Time has brought plightful occasion that tears my skin and shatter my spirit,
I have only known true torture from a cruel precinct thus it is the only thing I can remember very well.
I think sobrely about me as I stare at me in a mirror and only an ugly frown I behold,
I don't know why I was born without joy my and yet I now know that all of this is very well.

I don't remember why out of all about the events of existence I have to follow the ways of God.
I remember how I have always hated the Holy Bible and the automatic conjunction to an insane dogmatic belief,
But what I have says that I should pray and beg dead people to remember me again.
To have my hands touch what my mind doesn't have renders me completely ill but all is well.

I have learned to remember to reluctantly pray to God that my dead people may remember me again.
Remember me as much as you used to remember me in times of yore and I am sure I will don a wide smile when you visit me again.
Remember me and visit me that I may be sure about the true worth of my prevailing ruthless pain,
But if it doesn't make you happy to be with me and the universe remains quiet in my view I'll understand.

Time has brought me things I haven't asked for but pain has taught me that all is well.