Fire My Dreams

Ice-cold without feeling, The Accountant* - like the
self-proclaimed highwayman* of Languages, has a
license to assassinate South Africa’s red-cheeked
daughter Afrikaans, establishing with his irrefutable
logic that people exposed to this contaminating

Obscurant Afrikaans language phenomenon - have
never gained benefits because they lost the strong,
sturdy, hefty, high-brow Dutch from which Deviant
Afrikaans as Dialect had the temerity to mutate like
evolution gone bad in lowering the great original

Afrikaans now have English only for prior language
history - only the Norse Language Association has
been successful in creating their cultural language
while the American, Québécois, Flemish, Brazilian
and Mexican Language Associations all failed

Therefore, this is what we* should have done - this
language mogul claims  - we can’t hail the Dutch
Lexicon from which our little language originates:
the learned Financial Wizard continued (doesn’t
he know nobody spoke or read Dutch in Africa?)

Such soul-searching & unsolicited concern for our
maligned being is strange as the benefit I obtained
from speaking and reading my precious language
cannot be reckoned in sums or written down in
columns - reading Keurboslaan for integrity

Singing Die Lorelei and Sonnegoudtowersongs
based on Sehnsuchtsvolle Deutsch - made life
go klopdisselboom - the joy of learning English
deliberately as an excellent component of my
life; Paul Gallico’s Capitaine Coq, Rowling’s

Harry Potter in Afrikaans, skokiaan-versions of
Quatschlieder; Koos DuPlessis-Sprokies, then
reading Dwaalstories & Woelwater Warrelwind,
Liewe Heksie by Verna Vels, Staal Burger and
the Republic of Flinkveria by Fanus

Rautenbach - ‘n Handvol Waboomblare, ‘n Baie-
Bietjie-Babie, Lamtietie-Damtietie Slaap-Pikanini,
Ruisende Graanveld and Pêrlende Wyn, also the
rousing TROETELSONDES: as I count my riches,
my heart overflows – this is the Joy, Difference

Growth and Value that fire my dreams… 

[The Accountant* = Petrus van Eeden]
Highwayman* = Struikrower]
we* = Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners]