Vangile Gantsho – Poet from South Africa, based in Pretoria
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We hold you fiercely
As our own
Of our blood
Spilt over 300 years of looting
You are ours
Our forgiveness. Our tolerance
Our pain and loss
We will bury pieces of you
Everywhere our blood has ever poured
Give parts of you to everyone who has had to forgive
Mkhonto we sizwe sethu
This is a time for mourning
For grieving
Scars that have not healed
Prayers, sons, daughters. Loss
27 days of darkness
Giving 67 years of black
Our boxer, father
Tata we sizwe sethu
We will remember you
Honour you
Teach our hearts to forgive like you
But before then
You must be ours!
Let us have mourning
Let us grieve the rebellious terrorist
No one claims to have hunted down
We loved you under a Lilliesleaf
EQunu. Entabeni
Before prisons
On principle
We hold you fiercely by Vangile Gantsho,
