Polyamory

How can I wisely take that risk,

Since all the elements insist,

Hid in my own, my native land

Are dangers I can't understand,

And if I took this on complete,

Would end up in a sad defeat;

What sense is there, in tempting fates,

Behind security’s drawn gates??

Once, long ago, I preached a creed

Rejecting “race’s” anxious need,

Who now must love a distant land—

Ubuntu, these days, just a word

To which such hopes may be referred:

For, in old age, all dreams recede.

Note: On the concept of ubuntu, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

On the preaching of nonracialism, see, e.g., Peter Richard Dreyer, Against Racial Status and Social Segregation: Towards the Liquidation of Multi-Racialism and Non-Europeanism (Claremont, Cape Town: Citizen Group, 1958). Copies in the South African National Library, the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford, and the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford, California.

 Charlottesville, Virginia, Thursday, April 30th, 2026