</>Why should I write an English poem, <br />When the English write their own? <br />Why should I seek the symbol's hope, <br />When I've never met the pope? <br /> <br />Why would I want or wear; <br />silks and satins? cottons tear! <br />why would I want to speak <br />words unheard over devil's peak? <br /> <br />Seventeen eighty-nine <br />when victory was mine, <br />I let them stay <br />Near mossel bay <br />So they could win <br />when I grew thin <br /> <br />Alright, alright that was long ago... <br />But time remembers, don't you know? <br /> <br />I don't, and so I ask: <br />Why would I take the task? <br />Why would I break tradition, <br />when It's been conditioned? <br /> <br />When wood made winter warm; <br />and made good shelter in the storm. <br />With paper piles and Parker pen, <br />dare I pluck feathers from my hen? <br /> <br />Go write your precious lies on stone, see if I care! <br />Just leave to nature what was there. <br /> <br />O yes! why would I write indeed, <br />What my grandmother would not read?<br /><br />Nkululeko Mdudu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-should-i-write/
