"MAN AT SEA" GLADYS MBILLA WRITES......

When everything he says,
When everything he does,
Even when its not true, or
Even when its not right,
Is what you believe, then,
Then you know man's at sea,
With wide-opened eyes yet nothing he could see.


When all what she says is what you kowtow,
When all what she says is what you worship,
When even all minds travel the same path,
Indicating fully well, that all is not well,
Yet, you stand with everything they do,
Then you re-alize that man's truly at sea,
When one sees the letter "B" and calls it a "C".


Man has ceased to be man,
Man has literally become beast,
Man's inhumane treatment to fellow man,
Unlike the nature of collective efforts as do, BEES.
Man's no longer man when all man does is to cheat his fellow man.
Lust-leveled love lurks and looks beyond the human eye,
Just for whom to devour and deceive.


Do you have a mind of your own?
Do you have a life of your own?
Does it make you a better person to do, that which you do?
Does the colour of your mind depict that of your body?
Man's really, really at sea,
When you see nothing when there's much to see.

Do you follow your religion because you believe in it?
Or,  do you follow your religion because others are in it?
When you follow because others are in it,
Or if you do just to please many,  then,  and
Then you realize man's at sea
When all you do is just to be as society would love to see.


Why do you want to, or marry her?
Why do you want to, or marry him?
Do you do so because you want to,
Or do you do so, as is expected of you?
Is it because you want to fit in, in society,
Or is it that your faith demands of you?
Why do you belong under that shed and not the other?
Would you curl out of your hut to defend people of the same faith
As you do in matters of your po-lytrical affiliates?
Which is more of a family, those of your faith or the other under the same shed?


When you marry because you wish to fit in,
When you do what you do because others do,
When you go all out in trying to impress others,
Or go beyond what your might can handle,
Just because thats the trend in town,
Then,   really, no doubt, man's at sea,
Not seeing your real self but just that which society would wish to see.


Is it so bad, that you, be who you really are, is it wrong?
Why worry with issues that breaks your soul,
When you could do it your own way, so strong?
What does it profit a man to gain the whole fame and lose his own soul?
Just risking your all in all from the head of crowns to the feet of soles?
When you be you, they'd come up many who'd wish to be like you.


AMANDLA!!!


Written by;


Mbilla Gladys Alasid

allasid.mbilla@gmail.com
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