OMNIPRESENT

OMNIPRESENT

We have always been like this;

Hopping around bars dancing,

Looking for a life filled with bliss,

Waving our hands around while they are busy

Clinching bottles full of piss.

In the inner cauldrons of our hearts lies hidden a harsh reality

That we all try to escape.

In pursuit of this escape,

We therefore drown ourselves in Heineken;

Hoping to awaken a joy that we believe to be hidden within,

Hoping to quiet the shadow voices that feed us,

Those dark spirits that heed us to feed off their evil stimulus.

We all seek to plaster our leaking hearts that bleed thus.

We are all attuned to pain, loss and despair;

Looking for something or for someone that makes

The meaning of our lives seem clear

Well...........

God is here.

God is here 

God is there

God is everywhere!!!

God is in the poverty that makes you lust

After a rolex for one five

For lunch, supper and breakfast.

God is in the fear of witchcraft;

That fear that makes you dread

Passing under old man Kitovu's mvule tree;

That fear that makes you speak in tongues

Five times as you pass by a tree

That has an owl looking at you keenly.

God is in the suicide cuts on your hands,

God is in the room when you are 

Tying the noose around your neck.

God is also in the room when you

Point a shot gun at your own head.

God is in the intricacies of rape,

When you feel like throwing up

Because the prickly hairs on his chest

Are violently scratching your face.

God is there in the passion of extra marital sex.

He watches on like a spectator;

Waiting for the scene to come to an end,

Hoping upon hope that the couple will recover some common sense.

God is there at that primary school;

Wherein a teacher grabs hold

Of a little student girl's breast.

God is there in the horror of theft;

When a man holding a panga

Is carrying your TV set

And he looks at you

And you feel like you are 

Looking at the face of death.

God is in the heartache that is cruel;

The heartache that is caused

When she takes you for a fool

By sleeping with another man

In the middle of your room.

God is with you in your tears of despair.

God is there when fear strips you bare.

God is there when you feel his hair on your neck;

When in that moment

You realize that you are the next victim of rape.

God is also there when you can still taste

The dryness of the cheap cologne 

That he had perfumed on his chest.

God is there in that little church;

Where before the sermon,

The pastor asks for tithe first.

God is in the confines of the "Holy Room"

Where in order to minister healing on your hip

The pastor needs to touch your thighs first.

God is in the cancer wards

And in the hospitals.

God is in control of the 

Little bloody drops of spittle

That out of your mouth spew forth.

God is in the ARV pills that one takes

So as to seek comfort.

God is present in the game of hide and seek

That one plays with sugar in the case of diabetes.

God is here

God is there

God is everywhere!!!

Why don't you talk to Him?