The Devil Poem by Thabani Khumalo

Please give me a little time of natural leisure.
I want to submit under the mercy of the most high;
Me going out and in back into myself warier.

I want my soul to heal my spirit and spirit heal my soul
And travel infinitely with my most impious attribution;
The total detest of Jehovah and the full love of self.

I need to live a full-filling life
Which comes by living under my own adequate counsel
Free of statutes and rising way higher than any being of history.

I have come to know myself as the pharaoh of the Egyptian monarchy
And I have become existentially wrung in living under defamation.
I am called the evil one and the enemy of god,
But now I've grown to accept myself and I know I will be alright.