What Shall Become Of Us? Poem by Koketso Nonyane

What shall become of us?

The uneducated - The jobless - The lost hope - homeless
Intoxicated with mockery of society
Buried alive into the periphery of reality
Our destiny polluted by the vomit of capitalism
Chained inside the prison bars of poverty
We - the dark clouds of the city streets

The dreams we wear are no different from our clothes -
Dirty and torn apart.

We spree pitifully in an aura of invisibility to the rich
Judged by students as the symbols of intellectual garbage
Suffocated by the smoke of insultful eyes in restaurants

We are shadows of the night -
Criminally portrayed, by God we feel betrayed.
When the sun blows kisses to its duties to humankind
And we are stuck in the dark with no one around -
Hungry, cold and uncared for -
What shall become of us?