Two Worlds

 

How is that you have and I don’t have?

That you can and I can’t?

 

How is that you will and won’t?

That you shall and I shall not?

 

How is that you have and I don’t have?

That you receive, and yet I don’t?

 

How is that you laugh and I cry?

That you eat and I starve?

 

How is that you are and I’m not?

That you live and yet I die?

 

How is that our worlds are so different,

and yet are so close?

 

 

Poem by Fezile Xaba

VVOCF Teen

Zonkizizwe, South Africa