HEATH BROUGHER TRANSLATED into AFRIKAANS | The Salamander Chronicles – Don Beukes
ooit wakker nie?
na die rand
van die dam
en na die
wat my stip
My Life Severely Boiled Down
I saw the light that blinded most.
I found the Great Spiral and Understood it.
I grew the spidery cyst on my brain.
I withstood the jagged jibes and jokes of daily Suburban scum.
I cold-turkeyed every substance my body ever became addicted to.
I brought my Self to the point of not even needing a prop.
I induced this 12-year hermitage. I cultivated my own Intellect.
My own Self. I saw the falsity among the masses
and the insanity of society as it robotically called ME insane.
I tapped into realms of Truth to the point where it was virtually useless
for me to even talk to another person since I was on such a different wavelength.
I took the road less travelled than the road less travelled
and saw the necessity for some conformity
which will probably confuse some people who pseudo-thought
for themselves as it, to them, it was nothing more
than a mindless throwaway mantra.
Then I fell into a dream
with sugar-bum fairies and loud angry counting instead of trippy orchestras.
My Lewe Ernstig Afgekook
Ek het die lig gesien wat meeste verblind het
Ek het die Magtige Spiraal gevind en dit Verstaan
Ek het die spinnekopagtige groeisel op my brein gegroei
Ek het die vlymskerp skimpe en grappe weerstaan van daaglikse voorstedelike skuim
Ek het my onmiddellik onttrek van elke stof wat my liggaam ooit aan gewoond geraak het,
Ek het myself tot die punt gebring waar ek nie eens ‘n stut nodig gehad het nie
Ek het hierdie 12-jaar kluisenaarsbestaan self veroorsaak
Ek het my eie intelligensie gegroei, My eie Self
Ek het die valsigheid tussen die massas gesien en die waansin van die gemmenskap soos dit roboties vir MY mal genoem het,
Ek het uitegereik na ryke van waarheid tot die punt waar dit amper van geen nut was om selfs te praat met nog ‘n persoon, siende dat ek op so ‘n verskillende golflengte was
Ek het die ongekende pad gevat in plaas van die ongekende pad
en die nodigheid gesien vir ‘n bietjie ooreenstemming,
Wat heel moontlik sommige mense deurmekaar sal maak wie valslik vir hulself gedink het, en wedersyds dit aan hulle
Dit was niks anders as ‘n sinnelose weggooi mantra.
Toe val ek binne-in ‘n droom
met suiker-agterstewe feëtjies en harde kwaad aftelling in plaas van kopswaaiende orkeste.
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Don Beukes is a South African and British writer. He is the author of ‘The Salamander Chronicles’ (CTU) and ‘Icarus Rising-Volume 1’ (ABP), an ekphrastic collection. He taught English and Geography in both South Africa and the UK. His poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections and translated into Afrikaans, Persian, French and Albanian. He was nominated by Roxana Nastase, editor of Scarlet Leaf Review for the ‘Best of the Net’ in 2017 as well as the Pushcart Poetry Prize (USA) in 2016. He was published in his first SA Anthology ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection’ in 2018 (Libbo Publishers) and his second ‘Cape Sounds’ in 2019 (Gavin Joachims Publishing). He is also an amateur photographer and his debut Photographic publication appeared in Spirit Fire Review in June 2019. His new book, ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’/Thus Passes the Glory of this World’ is due to be published by Concrete Mist.
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