Running Poem by raymond letsitsa

Ever since birth I've been running
From the thunder clap
And the bullet
from
the man gunning
Down families of the poor
And the woman in the streets
with a collection tin humming
I ran from the one male rapist
spirit in a boy who knew
not how to get ahead in life
Molesting his son or daughter
while home with a working wife
I ran because it was the only way
I could go through strife
I didn't want my life taken by this
Man's handgun or knife
I ran from fake friends
and fake family members
The comedy of life's show
that ended with somebody's brains blown out
The Hiroshimas and Hurricane
Katrinas of the soul that killed me
Through the drought
I survived like a patient
through hard coma you see
I've been running from
respirators in these killer clinics
hurting me
I dodged the street life
and the rape charges and jail
I kept jogging my soul and trained
my mind like the Maluti rail
The deformities of the spirit
In these rapist pastors
Molesting the congregants
Heart and soul or soul to soul like
The Manhattans' arrogance
Find and thou shalt seek
or seek and thou shalt find
Mesmerized mental patients dragging hard-heartedness through the mind
I ran like athletes away
from the woman
with a perverted mind
I know not what you see
with the
Stevie Wonder sight of the blind
I ran towards my goal knowing
That the jealous might follow
Where the wide path leads to hell
While blacks
are forced to take the narrow
Eagles fly alone
but I can't forsake
The wingless sparrow
I ran because I knew not
the difference between
a ghost and a shadow
I didn't wanna be the messenger
With a whale behind me that wanted to swallow
I ran towards the future
with a vision of what from God
I wanted to borrow
Regardless of my
situation with life
We made life Sade and
turned it into the king of sorrow
Blending in with the criminals
Because they are my brothers
Not with the sane boy torturing
My sisters, raping my mothers
While I ran you stopped coping
With life like a political party
Let go of me and let me live
Before my brothers
dearly depart thee