I was born, raised and
educated in Cape Town, South Africa in the last two decades of Apartheid
and also have British and EU citizenship. Now a retired teacher of
English, I am following my passion to write poetry and hoping to share
my literal mentality with our global village, hoping to make global
citizens check their moral compass now and then in an ever changing
world. As a person of mixed race heritage, I want to share my
experiences whilst growing up, living and working in a totalitarian
racist regime. https://about.me/donbeukes
Derelict
Scores of starving children roaming
silently moaning as we watch in horror
behind the safety of our television screens
the saturated screams of neglect lest we
forget charitable targets not met -
Our brittle faith in humanity crushed
witnessing political fallout dust
it covers troubled areas in forced conflict
armageddon nightmares
tick...tick…
plunging nations in disintegrating derelict.
Power hungry gravy train engineers
polishing their latest designer veneers
leaving qualified job seekers in diamond
tears – Fuelling fiendish foretold fears
of marauding fed-up factions desperately
tearing down enriched utopian mansions
only to be severely severely stopped
by a political fatal hell-hound menacing mob
with tensions rising society dividing decision
makers floundering – Shady deals forged in
Ché Guevara cigar filled backrooms whilst
being served honey covered poison mushrooms
the air pregnant with false rumors
serenaded by corrupt parliamentary
crooners – A world in tumultuous
turmoil desperately trying to keep in tact
a burning human inferno
in a place doomed to remain
derelict...
I am cosmic ripples of time
creator unknown
some say divine,
Driven by intergalactic forces
tactile metamorphoses
extreme energy my
fiery fuel
my own nemesis,
A faint rumbling signals it
airflow speeds over
infiltrating weeds
wildlife stirs murmuring
chaos anew,
Light fades as darkness craves,
Ignited by an unknown entity
my rage resulting in
an earthly deity,
Sculpting
creating
ripping
adjusting,
Tectonic shivers
my playground expanding -
Subtle resistance prevails
as approaching
mayhem sails
towards order and peace
promising no
relentless release.
I am the gargle of
raging waters
instinctively searching
a spiral destination
briefly gushing
providing fresh sustenance,
Invisible force catapulting
me into a salty fortress
it tucks at your intake of air
as it sucks out life all around,
Your senses explode
sensory overload
primitive instincts surface
into the lair.
I am legions of identities
mankind keen to
baptise me ‘Mother’,
My offspring diverse
their power my
eternal curse,
Each molecule under my instruction
an egregious growl turns
into a menacing scowl
of eclectic electric
cobalt light
burning bright,
Imploding clouds
deliver a ghastly sight
air splits
as I vomit foul,
Schizophrenic reactions
reveal another dimension,
My life-giving force resulting
in growing generations,
Microscopic activity
biological longevity
colors exploding
fossils exfoliating,
I am omnipresent
and potent
yet holding charge
of life abound.
I remain
and always
will be -
Erutan Mai.
Broken
Deathrow –
Its echo haunts my
crumbling halo
cutting through
my hopeless interior –
Falsely shunned by
society's man-made laws
caged within these eternal
damned doomed doors – My
essence flickering fleeting
disappearing – mamon knocking
its minions mocking, taunting
neighbourly tirade desperately
engineered attempting
to make me fade –
Daily raw rhetoric
filtering through beastly
boasting brick of apparent
initial violence breaking
the silence –
Persistent poisonous
mocking desperate
to cripple me
alas, two decades could
not wither me -
By all means rewrite
your sour soliloquy
faith almost broken – Me
an uptown lawyer's token, a
perilous unlawful process still
unspoken – My youthful former self
mistakenly confessed under drugged
duress – To a murky murder
drunken mayhem, freedom
broken - Society's tarnished
teenage token stripped humanity –
Sentenced to institutional insanity
devoid from chosen human contact –
Beelzebub signing my final deathly
contract - Isolation draining me
dehumanising me -
Do you see me
hovering in limbo ?
A small audience to
witness my demise -
The ultimate freak show
fading the glow – You look
at me straining to see
hoping to stop a blurred
perceived growing anarchy
a brittle spirit
finally broken – You
wretch at my sudden
seizure your chosen
amnesia adoring this
pitiful pathetic procedure -
My existence eerily vivid
you -
The executioner
silent raucous reverie -
My last referee
a soul finally broken
splinters of doubt -
My body an empty shell
successful callous cull -
Fallen
fading
translucent -
Broken
~ Don Beukes
