Apartheid Poems  

1.

Non-being


non-white
non-entity
I think but am not
but to think I am not
is to be
not what I can
but what I must
invisible
unseen
In shades of yellow, brown and black
that fade in the white glare
of the being one



2.  

Emmanu-El

speak
if you dare
of a Christ
of a saviour
of  a man who died on a cross
for my sins

who will die for yours
Mister Boss Man


3

Prayer


Let us prey
for we were set on earth
to prey
prey on those beneath
who pray to those above
that we
will not prey
on them

God be merciful
We cannot


4.

Ubuntu


kill, kill, kill
kill the spirit
chain the mind
blind the heart
turn black to grey
and white to right
for a slave
my slave
made in my image

inhuman
savage.