Dear Meneer

As I land, You hold my hand As I fall, You stand me tall You opened my eyes Removed my icecap of blindness To expose my inner core And showed me that I’m worth so much more As I bend, You mould As I cry, You show me the how and the why About the apeman That added one plus one As I live and breathe, I evolved His greatest gift to the world, is love As I play, You knelt to pray As I itch, You took a stick to teach As I scratch my head in class You stretch my mind like hot glass The mystery of the life was made clear A seed of knowledge planted where there was only fear As I raise my hand to reach You enrich, As I reflect on your impact You’re my retrospect We waste as the greenhouse effect We burn in crude oil as dinosaurs went extinct And as mining coal is our goal We mirror smoke and turmoil Thank you, Mnr. Hilary Ramokgopa