Who Am I To You? Poem by Thabani Khumalo

Multitudes have tried to consider a view point
but perceptics are highly concocted and thus veer
and many have perceived but obscene.
I am not a lie and I know I'm beyond foolproof,
so listen to my words when I say: "I am! "
Beneath the lowest depths of your apathy I am:
Sunken in the muck of your heaviest sorrow filled shame - sad I am,
Holding you up to, at least, once more breath
the succor of the wind a layman can afford a peer who's death-bound.

At the highest echelons of a dimensional gaze
and extending beyond the ever imagined horizons;
even beyond places highly held by your postulating mind,
whether heaven of ghosts or hell of shame,
I am there as your ultimate cheer -
For your cheer, that I am.