Never The Same Poem by Sefofane Shabalala

In the beginning there was nothing, lonely in space I orbited, Shaded blind till she came along my dearest friend illuminated My surface yet she couldn't come closer as she was furiously Blazing I couldn't handle, yet my days of darkness where then over Then it hit me, the hollow within throughout grew hideously it made Sense that something was missing because lonely still I felt.

My tears grew to streams, then I thought of ways to maintain myself Through seasons yet it wasn't enough as obstacles grew rapidly I needed Assistance thought of things big and small till you evolved to supreme, Things where habitual till you started studding my nature, existence, life, My elements and molecules, atmosphere, space and beyond reach, Fond I was till you started to edifice my surface I was never the same, Doing good by and for existence you said, yet slowly my resources, Depleted I was no longer the same.

Till date maintaining myself, including those whom listened to my calling It is insurmountable still, lonely I ain't no longer yet WANTING, I remember when Everyone was civilized and envisaged a better and preserved future for every Being yet now, I'm just another decaying cosmos which was once earth a mother Of all man, animal and all nature itself ...