What You See In Me Is In You * Poem by Niki Nicholas Nkuna

I may look blue in the face
Look green, red, white or black close and low down up,
The far side hidden in you that you don’t know,
That you may like or dislike
You may attempt to wash down the dirt
The ugly side will remain,
It will shout, cry and laugh madly at all times and weathers

The zombie will be a perennial nuisance in your face
Chasing it away will never end because the colour is one
The soul is one and the blood is a string
The zombie will keep creeping on you
Not because it sees the likeness
Not because it smells like the naked you
Not because it sounds like you in speech, song and cry

The fly will remind you of its presence
Notwithstanding your dislike of it
But just to heighted the filial relation
That has got nothing to do with the nuisance of presence
But the blood that shoots out the ugliness, the beauty and the likeness
Never mind the sound that cuts through the ears, the brain and drips out
In the cry of pain and ecstasy

NNkuna 24 August 2013