O Life - Personal Peace Poem by Thabani Khumalo

How did you break such a wonderfully unique code?
You could not allow for man's flesh to live without spirit:
personality doesn't exist besides
a strictly dominated mind prevailing over him;
he glorifies the king's parade while fettered
in an abyss under guarded duress -
right before he is squared up for the absolute torture -
and a person in the flesh ravishes in severe pain and in agony.

O life... you are a savaged witch!
But man has not at all been subdued,
there is a savior's law of reciprocation - that:
the deeper the wreck of sorrow,
the sweeter the ensuing love.
The children are now being born out of love
and they spell wonders to the heart of a person,
they have calculated the phantom void
of all myths and stereotypes together;
they openly measure everything they like
and they keep the numbers as their precious souvenir.
Soon the world will savor personal peace -
I will have the laugh?