Segments Of My Mind

The poems span four decades of selected writings from the author, starting with “In Black and White”, written at the age of eighteen, making a statement against the apartheid system that ruled South Africa at the time. ”Separation” continues with this theme, dealing with the forced separation of people of different colours. The next few poems, “Lights at Night” and ”Thoughts of Expression”, written when the author was sixteen, are more introspective, and lead on to “Door in the Rain.” The n...