Garth Rakumakoe

The Abstract Mind Sees

The abstract mind sees

the straight plain beauty of the circular

as of the unpopular, queer, shamed, peculiar

along the glossily finished

over the foothills of the obscured

and inside heartbeats full of life

forested by pulsing arteries

behind calabashed white enamels

on the grinned melanin child

 

The abstract mind sees, no greater joy

in that gutter no deeper honesty

than this shared humanity

a sun kissed, wide eyed nonchalance

this blinking toy beneath Motherland sky

in that presence the abstract mind

sees in that doe eyed dimpled smile -

her mind weaving seams of a having

from the harsh winds of plight

 

Distant to the eye yet tangible

in the heart the melancholy of a dream

the abstract mind hears, sees, knows

the innocence of streams unknown

quenching hearty laughters

by night fire glows

charmed of squalored shambles

precious life jewels of radiance

in abstract sight