Wizard Poem by Thabani Khumalo

I'm a wizard of the township.
I'm the mind of God covered in a Devil's skin.
I do all these things and I don't know why,
I ravish the eye so it rapidly sheds a tear.
Like a miracle that comes from above the sky,
I'm the mishap from underground like a scaling viper.
I grow from within like a parasite -
I sustain from the fear like a black mamba.

I feed in the flatters of a girl like a flower
by causing my body to transfigure like the Christ's.
I saw a girl that was flawless to the smallest toe
and for many days I dreaded my dwindling life.
She gave in to the idea of flirting with a flick
and everyday she recovers the heart of her own.
I know the words to say and these are things
that drive her up the wall to the manic of her form.
Only that is the secret to her heart...
that, alone, and nothing else.