Dear Black Child
DEAR BLACK CHILD Black is a word A description of race A color A symbolic meaning of death Oh dear black child Are you a description of death? Color, race Does the black blood flows within your vein Or it has just been taken in vein Sons and daughters of the soil Freedom we have obtained not We the born frees Rejoice for joy, noises from every corner of the street Shouting freedom we obtained yet freedom we obtained not Oh dear black child We look down to the soil Reflection of the footsteps of our ancestors Shadow of grave, shadow of poverty Reflects on us every single sunset Freedom we obtained not Is freedom an ownership or a title enforced within us For sympathy or empathy? Why have you lost the teachings of Steve Biko? In order to remove the shackles of inferiority One has to change thy mentality Till when black child We continue enforcing subjects to be taught in the language we borrowed Ignorance of over 1000b...