Poetry - These Days Poem by Thabani Khumalo

Poetry now has become calm... poetry back then was dangerous. Poets these days have a different understand; the deeper they go into the words, the more the find happiness. There used to a time when I used to load down; I created a lot of sentences in words, I was writing as if I was looking to discover something yet, at the time, I did not believe I was a poet.
I became curios with words and I wanted to understand their deep meanings - that, in life, has caused me to travel a very dark path and a lot of it, I had to travel alone. I really do not know what it is with poetry, I really do not know what it is with the words of life. The longer that I tried was the more I discover that there was peace, so I followed the path of peace - yet it had been so dark. I know that on my own, by my physical ability, I will break on to other side and the love that I carry for words will heal the land.
It is the very thing that used to drive the poets of long ago:
If you remember that the United States of America does not have poets. It is geographically impossible for the United States of America to have poets, which is why they teach it schools. Those people are driven by... the power - I don't know what to call it, like... they have this urge towards scarcity and...
When they catch that thing that is scarce, they give back to the people as the same fear. Where the Americans get healed by poetry, they create and inflict pain on other people; they create an inferno on earth. The world right now is bathing - is breathing - is entertained by carbon dioxide, yet they tell you about all these things you should be afraid of.
I think you should be afraid because these may only be the words but, there is no telling when the prophet is going to arrive. These may be a tip about the future.