While waiting for 25

We learn as we grow. At times we grow and learn too late, others grow and die without having learnt from their experiences. Some of us will not learn just because we are afraid to experience anything first hand, and so we live through television soap operas and the stories that are spat out by gossip mongers, oonondaba.

All of us posses the capability to live and learn. Ignorance is a choice.

While Waiting For 25

While waiting for 25
the whole world passed me by.
I watched the limp diseased carcass of my future 25

In the back of a hearse

Being driven off

Alone into the past

Hope failed me

Spite named me
Punched a hole into this morning

And pulled today’s goals

Away into the final flickering-outbursts of a dying dream.
Broken promises derailed future opportunities

Yesterdays mistakes never became tomorrow’s lessons learnt

All things magical were replaced by the baseless and immaterial

And petrol bombs burned me while hard words were thrown back at me

Like bricks to a mellow yellow, so they bounced back and bruised he.

While waiting for 25.

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While waiting for 25

We bled our souls into dust

And butchered our eyes raw from eyeing the neighbours life.
While waiting for 25

Hunger became my mother,
Hatred became my father,

Burden was my sister

And Rape came to my home

As a visiting uncle.
While waiting for 25

Us became me

You became we

The future turned grim,

Last night’s celebrations turned rancid

And with an idol-worshipping purpose

Activists withered into textbook heroes

Believers became capitalist communists.
While waiting for 25

We became aware that we had once again become enslaved at 8.

The onslaught of defeat hangs as a cautionary tale

On the scarred faces of today’s children,

Un-noticed and appearing lifeless.

We were dead at 15

While waiting for 25.

- an excerpt from While Waiting for 25.

We must live and we must learn.

Namaste