Red and Black

Alumnus, Alumna and Alma Mater

I have found a place

A place of solace, fondness and kinship

So warmly created for the royal and regal

Marked by eminence, harmony and resilience of essence

 

Brilliance being the warmth of beckoning

Drawing me to solace

Thee to fondness and lots to kinship

A rest in red so flowing in my being

The black and comely being that I am

 

My blood is red my form is black

Thusly I am regal: Thusly I am audacious

Oft misjudged as proud, brattish and abrasive

Yet never proud only confidently conspicuous

Yeah, never brattish but simply impetuous

To kindness and kinship in hope as I seek my own

That is all that I am

I am red I am black

 

As the essence of red and black

I am the code urging thee all the time

Stay humble do not be haughty
Haughtiness precedes the fall of man

Always be polite never be a reproach

In civility, all doors stand open as you approach

 

In all my living days,

As a vessel kin to red and black

Resiliently, I will walk in the code

Heartily, I will prop my kin-vessels up

True to the essence of what makes me family

Red and black in consortium with thee

Lethabong, indeed in happiness

Author's Note

ignore grammar