Journey

You're on a journey,
to laugh, to cry,
to hate, to love,
to live and die.

Over millennial
we have depicted a life
not worth fighting for
not worth dying for.

Our lives are construed
on the same storyline
as that of Athol Fugard's
Nongogo.

In the past the white men
were the Sam's
the black women the Queeny's
the black men the Patrick's
the Asians the Johnny's

Integration has mixed us
but even though mixed
we do not walk hand in hand
rather hearts in hands.

This journey you're on
do you ever wonder
why the rich keep living
and the poor keep dying

In this journey of ours
do you ever ponder about
why the women are regarded as home-keepers
and the men as bread-winners

Upon this journey of yours
did you embark
to fight for equality
to fight for democracy.

Africa has lived without it
dined with the devil himself
Charles Darwin's theory could never ever
be more evident than here in our home
Yet the world continued to revolve
into 'perfection'.

But there is hope, there always is
for perseverance paves a way
for those after us to walk on
and those before to shudder.