Kenneth Maswabi
The milieu of life
Like a gigantic spider web
Life throws both foe and friend
Into a horrendous game of survival
With every calculated move, life fiddles
with our sanity
Encapsulating us in uncertainty and fear
Until we are irrational in our desire to
succeed
That we step on each other’s toes and
heads
We become immersed in our own survival
That we trample on the basic ethos of our
collective consciousness
Causing shear stresses on the fabric of
our own existence
This is the chronic wearing and tearing
of the capsule of life
This poisonous survival of the fittest
game is not sustainable
It is causing unimaginable damage to the
environment (e.g. global warming)
It is the cause of civil strife all over
the world
Inequality, gender-based violence and
poverty are symptoms of this toxic environment
It is the basis of hatred, racism and
xenophobia
It has caused so many conflicts between
mothers and daughters
Fathers and sons, neighbours, colleagues,
friends, to mention but a few
It has torn apart entire families,
tribes, cultures and nations
It is a source of the internal bleeding
inside our human psyche
Pushing our daily stress levels to the
highest levels
Culminating in the emergence of an
irrational human species
Totally deficient in common sense and lacking
the human touch
The milieu of life was deliberately
constructed by mankind
In their bid to outwit and outcompete
each other
Humanity created a monster that gobbles
on his children, women
And the vulnerable
The game of survival spews toxic material
into our environment, each other
And everything that matters to the
continued existence of life
The game of survival emanates from our
dependence on logic
The abandoning of consciousness or
spirituality as the basis of life
And the reckless pursuit of material
wealth
The same merchants (politicians,
economists, scientists) trying to fix the world’s problems
Are the facilitators and sponsors in this
worldwide game of survival
We have only one antidote against this
malignant tumour
Unconditional Love is the only therapy to
our collective consciousness
Until we learn to love one another, we
are doomed
©Kenneth Maswabi
