Listen!!!

by Winnie Mabindla   Jun 9, 2013


Listen!!!

A new age upon us, yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave
The voice of racism still preaches in all
Eleven official languages
When I talk about these inequalities &
Injustices
They say, let bygones be bygones
They say, that was yesterday/ last year/ 3 years already
No! Let me speak! I'm not racist, i'm Just a realist & maybe if u can wear The same lenses we can see eye-eye
Oh! & by lenses I don't mean your price tagged glasses, anyway listen!
They bombed, murdered, bruised & disabled innocent souls
You heartless man gathered your People & gave them chemical weapons to reap off that Black skin
This is the information they still hold
They got their backs against the wall because, they were facing assassination

You may not remember, but I won't forget the ones who fought my freedom possible when a Black was an obstacle
The blood that flowed like the blood of Abraham through the Jews & the Arabs broken apart like a woman's heart abused in marriage
It opened roads of these lyrics from the pain rooted within my heart's core
It inspired me to let this black ink Move in between those lines in that Dearest keeper of my heart confessions, allowing me to speak that You may listen, then Listen!

South Africa became a federal incarceration, indigenous holocaust & home of slaves
How could it be, the land of the free & the home of the brave
My people being used against their people as instrumentals of terrorism
Human rights violation, we continue the saga
I break it down with critical language &
I won't change humanity for patriotism
No feckless man can try to kill my fecundity like they did when my fellow brothers & sisters tried to speak, now Listen!

Those heartless, cruel men turned their skin &bones into ashes
It's like cocaine controlling the brain, suggestive thinking causing your perspective to change
They wanted to rearrange the whole point of view when these innocent souls split the truth on how they lived
They didn't know the price was their lives... Now that they're gone, only their names & stories continue to live

You may not remember, but I won't forget the ones who fought my freedom possible when a Black was an obstacle
The blood that flowed like the blood of Abraham through the Jews & the Arabs broken apart like a woman's heart abused in marriage
It opened roads of these lyrics from the pain rooted within my heart's core
It inspired me to let this black ink Move in between those lines in that Dearest keeper of my heart confessions, allowing me to speak that You may listen, then Listen!

I told u i'm not racist, i'm just a realist
Don't discriminate nor hate... Peace!!!

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