y do you laugh?

 

Y DO YOU LAUGH?

 

I was late for the art club meeting.

Though it’s never my custom to be late,

Ah, this day I had reasons oblivious to my lateness.

On opening the door, Mary Anne was present,

She was PRESENTING A PAINTING I think,

B4, I sat down, she asked WHAT I THOUGHT OF IT.

Actually I was thinking of sitting down,

When amongst the crowd,

An imbecile provoked the stretch of my verbal diarrhoea,

By laughing hysterically at my stammering nature;

Actually I had nothing to say at the time.

 

Then I turned to the crowd, y do you laugh?

 

Y do you laugh when am trying to excavate

the effect of paint and brush forth?

When am trying to contextualized the effect of ink on paper,

To bring forth a visible colours, a ringing colours,

A chiming colours, a musical colours,

An art of colours?

 

Y do u laugh when am trying to categorize

The ingenuity of mind and spirit brings to life?

Y do you laugh when am trying to explain

The physical expression of art fuelled by emotional context?

Y do you laugh when am seeing a vision

Living a dream in ya midst?

Y do you laugh when am bombarding

The compilation of determinism and faith?

 

And yet you laugh!

 

Y do laugh when i see a phenomenal woman,

Queen africa, lioness on the rise, fire mama,

A girl, a lady, a woman, feminity propounded.

Y do you laugh when i see freedom of expression dignified?

 

Y do you laugh when i see life in life itself,

Sweet mother nature, human nature,

Living life alive live live.

Y do you laugh when i see what the mould of dust procreates,

Recreates, conserves, preserves as authored by GOD?

 

Y do you laugh when i see Harvest in crop failure,

When i see life in face of death,

When i see hope in despair,

faith in doubt, strength in power.

 

Y do yu laugh when i see music in a paint,

Hymn of a brush, rhythmic of a stretch,

Whistling of the shades, glistening of the colors.

Y do u laugh when i  feel singing, humming, buzzing,

Waltzing, going salsa, skipping, moving samba, kwaito.

Y do you laugh at a classical, metro, ghetto, capital,

Uptown, jambo, milele piece of art?

 

And lastly,

Y do u laugh…..

When u cant clap for a hot 96’ degree presentation,

Showcase of passion on art by Mary Anne?

 

By now , i was getting really techratic, superflick,

Light years with my art club members.