Mama
Mama who art upon the earth
You gave me life, you gave me love
Let me acknowledge the womb
Where I was conceived
With painful pride
Your presence is a living drama
Living drama of a race
Drama of flesh and blood
You accepted me on your laps
And let me open your womb
The fortune of your birth hood
And let me suckle your breast
Before they became human history
U floated deep seas in stormy
U held your shoulders
To the Earth’s foundation.
Mother, friend and guider.
Because of you
I am what I am.
Die no more
Let me die, to die no more
Die in an attempt to live forever
My name has been called
Called to die to live eternally
Oh mom, no need to cry
I died flesh and blood
Spiritually my life is guaranteed
Don’t worries be happy
For now I art in heaven
On earth I am miserable
I am going home, to die no more
My death is only my birth began
Remember
Remember Soweto
Bullet in the back days
Remember the dead
And be glad
Let the praise be to them
Rebel’s freedom is their cause
Being dead it does not matter
How guilt or innocent they died
Being dead it does not matter
How well or bad they died
Being dead we should pay them
Pay them Tribute
Because it is for Living they died.
African
I am not coloured
I am neither black
Nor white
I am an African
I, the child of all races
My identity branded in the cry of Mzantsi
In the distant lands of ubuntu
I am proudly
And mysterious African
The porter of all sorrows
I, the rascally child
Die hard like a wild animal
A person associated with the springbok
Without a doubt
That’s what I am about
I, the child of poor African society
Never shall I rest
Rest under the colour hedges,
Black, green and gold
The intense proudly African
The God boiled my blood in a clay pot of passion
To course in my veins
My colour shows it all
My heritage identifies it all.
My music sings it all
I am an African
My dream
When I was young,
My imagination had no limits
I often wish I could change the world
But I grew older my wiser
I discovered that the world
Would not change in my last
Desperate attempt I settled
Down for changing only my country
But it too seemed immovable
And I ask myself
What if I Change myself
Then by example
I might change my family
Their inspiration and encouragement
They might better the country
Who knows even the world?
Never give up
Life of eases difficult pursuit
Along the path of odds
Fall, but rise every time
Rise as the struggle develop strength
No pessimism no surrender
Be like a Leaf in the wind
Go at the drift of your
Dreams no matter what it takes, never give up
Through hardship character can be made
Through commitment success can be achieved
We live in the age of hope, trust undying God
Perseverance is the mother of success
Hector Pieterson
He died
When he was young
Full of pride
Full of passion
He was born in adversity
Grew up in oppression
And schooled in struggle
In longing for freedom
Clouds overcast the world
He has gone to a higher life
He was asked to leave
The beloved son of soil
I saw faces of Africans
Tears and sighs, sighs and tears
Expressing absence of their hope
His brothers and sisters left
Hopefully and eagerly
His death it doesn’t matter
It is for freedom he died
His death it doesn’t matter
It is for freedom he died
His death it doesn’t matter
It is for unity he died
His death it doesn’t matter
It is for living he died
Sikelela
In the dark quarters of the world
Neither light nor life
But anxious to live
Dreams are shapeless
In my neighbourhood
I struggle to impress
While others work to suppress
I live in others pockets
Envying my neighbour cooking pots
On my road to nowhere
I met the poor little boy
I counted Ribs on his chest
His stomach is a den of lions
Roaring day and night
People are starving
Why are we so lamented?
How long would we be tormented
Light the candles right now
As the symbolic flame of love
For those Infected and affected
By HIV and aids
Chaos is walking the land
People are being used
Things are being loved
Our birth is only our death begun
Enjoyable
Cassandra Parker
I enjoyed this. The writing evokes visual images. Nice.
Nice
Jinang Dangkat
WOW! This is incredible.
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