Artwell Masuku Poems

Everywhere you turn
An army badge
A police baton
A threatening militia
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A volcano can lie
Dormant for a century
And suddenly erupt
And so
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He was stumbling
Down freedom way
Dripping blood
A wooden cross on his back
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The road is rough
Long and pregnant
With potholes
Some of us
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An attractive
Woman
Stood under
Neon lights
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Oppression
Repression
Jails
Genocide
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I thank the hands
That makes food
The breasts
That make milk
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Once people could roam
Free
Unbound
So noble and fair
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My whole life
I've spent searching
But never finding
Wanting
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Love composes
The most stunning
Melodies of the heart
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