You Are Not Alone Poem by Pheko Motaung

When they rise and applaud
Where you went wrong don't
Unplug the suicidal tendencies
Lay your head next to your torn
Clothes and your tattered pillow
And rest because help is coming
When they hold long telephone
Conversations and analyze
Your faults to death don't
Let the smile run from your face
The maligned earth is not
Your most dangerous opponent
The good world is your friend
You will never walk alone
Life is pleasure ceaselessly
Lived without end to eternity
Death is serenity enjoyed forever
To the endless times of time
It is the space between that
Riles your critics about you

Do Not Be Afraid Of Growing Up

Because you are not alone
The strong men and the hard women
Have faced the worst revolts in
Their lives and they have put
Down the rebellions and they
Have mastered their own fears
Get out of the House Of Aloofness
And with the blood oozing from
Your open wounds plant the
Seed of love and hope in the
Worst of the denigrated and
Desperate and desolate places

Do Not Be Ashamed Of Your Poverty

Because you don't want to be
Caught dead walking alone
The tender softie softie
Tendencies of your friends
To love you is the deterrent you
Need to disinfect the vile vices in
Their haunts that haunt your young life
Defy your humiliation and be like
The millions of your compatriots
Who were once the joke of society
Who are now the kings and the
Queens of their own successful empires


Don't sabotage God's master
Plan that He has about you
Don't bring more suffering
To your own little corner
It is unhealthy to be lonely
This world is yours and ours
The human family needs you
Accept the world as it is
With all it's imperfections
It will not harm you
Accept the world and try
To heal all it's traumas
It is still your world
It will not disown you
The world laughs and it wants
To know what makes you laugh
The world with it's love
Contrary to what they say
Is not a bedrock of fear