MANDELA JULY

So here we are and it is 1 July 2013!

Thank God we are alive to see it! And thank God Mandela is alive! This is officially Mandela's 95th July ever. That is just so cool. Most of us have lots of Julys to live to get to that number God-willing.

I always find that July can be a game changer. It is that time of the year where you have stepped into the second half of the year so that if you got the other half of the year wrong, this is the half to make up for it. It is also the half that makes you think seriously about the following year! I am praying that this half of the year will introduce all the things necessary for my next steps next year.

The poetry journey continues. I do not see why a brilliant poet is not earning as much as Torres. At some point in history, sport was just a game. He or she was not necessarily rich because they were good.

It is time for the poet. It has to be. This July can change things. Here is one way to make poetry count www.thundafund.com/sikidlanga

Let the games begin. This is a game changer.

Paradise Waiting To Be Uncovered

Rustic 

Ancient 

Older than Mandela 

Nothing is changed

Gates are rusty

There is electricity and water 

So it isn't so bad they say

Look how much we have achieved

Together we can do more the ANC says

One hundred years of existence the party boasts

A party it was for the ANC for a

whole year 

Celebrating dead heroes

Their philosophy begging for resurrection

A monument is enough the party says

For now they drink and dine in fine wines

This community can tell you in person what happened in Marikana 

No raise followed 

Just death and life as normal

Continues as it had since Colonialism

Yet paradise waits here

Paradise waits to be seen and unveiled beneath the unfulfilled promises 

Paradise waits behind the cloud of lack of vision

Even children are ready for more

Motion with Happy endings

There are times where we go the wrong direction. It may look right and feel right but when it ends, it reveals itself to be a false path.

But then sometimes you simply could not have taken a better path.

It leads you to happy endings. I think I am taking that train this time around.

I am taking that train with pleasant views and yet still offers me more and more still.

Here is to happy endings!

I'll toast to that.

Happy ending of 2012 everybody. See you 2013 with God's grace.