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By Abram Mahlaba In Poetry

Let Me Remove the Log in Your Eye Poem

Let Me Remove the Log in Your Eye Abram Mahlaba

You live a life of grandeur
And enjoy flaunting your sleek coupé,
But you forgot the precarious latrine
Waiting to be swallowed by a sinkhole at your mother’s;

Your mother’s shanty doesn’t smell of roses
But a squalid odour, which now perturbs
The breath under your nose;

You say my sisters are dirty and loose,
That they jump like police dogs onto your coupé,
That they’re disseminators of the deadly disease
And the polluters of the population;

You chortle as my brother
Rapes and maims my little girls,
But you forget the effects of the lethal ether
That you keep injecting on his brutal brains;

I tried in vain to remove the speck in your eye,
But with snobbish arrogance,
You told me to first remove the log in my eye
Before I run roughshod over your business.

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Article by Abram Mahlaba

Abram Mahlaba is a creative writer and freelance journalism. He has published a poetry book, Irksome Clouds. He also got a couple of poems published in anthologies. He usually contributes to online sites like Digital Journal. Mahlaba writes to cherish the beauty of his national heritage and critiques what he feels necessary. He's blessed with a wife and two kids, Tokollo, and Kimollo who are his great source of inspiration.
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