My Grandfather The Civilized Old Man
My grandfather
the civilized old
man
thou didn't know
how to pretend,by
day you still didn't
know how to
pretend to be a
good man
before they hath
brought their
religion and
thought you the
art of forgery,then
thou began to
think you could do
the both
and at the mercy
of the night how
thine lips praised G
(g)od's wonderful
creation
o my grandfather
how thou did not
pretend when you
descended from
thine mothers legs
and thou were
naked for all those
who didn't love
you to see thou so
bare without all
that made them
hate you
that was what
thou have been
told by those who
were older than
the old before you
now thou must
cover
thine manhood
with cotton wool
and make adultery
less
brandishing,hide
thine charms that
hang on thoust
waist from thine
neighbours
searching eyes
how much more
deception must
thou learn from
their righteous evil.
The day thou were
born was the day
thou beame a man,
you did not linger
to lick the dust and
grow to ask thine
mother how you
were conceived
thou have jumped
all that and
became a man,
dead men have
really grown brave
to visit the living
how did they learn
how to talk or
maybe they don't,
maybe we're the
ones that have
learned how to
listen
do not ask me if
you were a man or
woman,for the day
you were born
thine father was
happy and thine
mother in the
stubborn pain of
thine labour begat
a grin forced by
thy father's joy.
There was no
mirror so thou
didn't know you
were two
now that you've
seen one you're
worried you're too
ugly for the
women in your
town
you've always said
that was not how
you have dream
yourself true
thou to ask how
the cotton bind
into an endless
clothe that
machine is evil!
I think i like that
machine you said maybe we
can work together
in divinity
o how thou looked
at the white man
and thought he's
not dirty they are as white
as snow you proclaimed,though
thou've never
seen snow
but your neighbour
is white and he's
very dirty
because you are
black does that
mean you're dirty
too
i think you've had
too many kwete
beer
i can see the
evidence soaked
on your white
beard,the white
beard tell more
than thine long
age tomorow your
son will come with
a bride for your
disapproval,
you are the one to
choose for him,you
are older and you
know better but
you are not the
one to live with the
woman and yet
you know because
he is your son and
he's like you thou
have again
apologies to thine
son for he is ugly
too
why have you
waited so long to
see a mirror when
he was right in
front of you only
to gaze into the
shadow of your
very own
reflection and see
what you've been
hiding since dusk
fell behind you...
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