Respect Your Freedom

RESPECT YOUR FREEDOM I glance through my verandah window, Birds flying over my head freely. I imagined myself floating like them, In pain complicated, reminiscence shown deeply. The afternoon breeze breeds an aroma, Like fresh cologne of summer ivies. Unlike bad odors always ventilating thru my nostrils. All I see is beauty of nature’s creation down peak Lang Street. I cease to be virtuous persuasive! Bearing in my mind the righteousness of every individual, But the world is never consistent to inhabitants, And all that nature has conceived seem to be miscarried. Felicity we used to have is now buried by the avalanche. No matter the yokes our fore fathers burdened, The chains they footed, we still not free, not in this degree. Natively as indigenous but still feel like apaches. Our roots are rooted out like weed indeed unfreed! Visions screened in our minds succeed in destroying Beauty of our lives in noble disguise. We imbibe intoxicants excessively in excuse for our guilty conscience! Will in moments of grace my pure words ever attain quality of deeds? Freedom blinds us to the unknown! The powers we possess lead us to temptations! We enslave and indulge ourselves in injustices! Yet we jeopardize our freedom through contempt and hostility! Crime and violence generates prolonged vendetta To our fellow white counterparts through racism and brutality. Respect your wealth and take no part in exploitation of immature women! Respect God’s Temple and never take part in the prostitution society! Respect your freedom. By Willem Pietersen