Ships Ahoy(Ma Boy!) Poem by Nkululeko Mdudu

Welcome aboard the moving sphere,
All ye destinations be here;
Underneath a dense field of nothingness.
Ye will build ye own shield in emptiness,
And decorate it with everything,
Given to ye by our captain and King.
The first of your travelling gifts is a curse,
But from the original things get worse.

Welcome to the table of life;
Where you need not a fork or a knife,
Instead I will give ye one of those life jackets,
To keep ye afloat in this soup bucket.

Your destiny is sin!
But don’t let the worry of it make you thin-

After I’ve fattened you up with truth and honesty,
My version of it anyway.
Till you can ground your feet and find your way
With this here compass that’s so blessed.
You will build your own nest;
But before that you need a station,
There you will continue to build our nation.

Be sure to keep your dreams in tact.
I too still dream as a matter of fact:
I dream of flying to heaven on a paper plane,
Its worded wings, full of those they called insane.

Welcome to the world of mortals
Your rightly passage, through the female portal.