Between You And Me Poem by zama ashley helebe

Between you and me
There are great forces Beyond joy and free
There’s a great trench of isolation and mean
Between you and me
There are tall walls of un-humanity and un-unity
We dropped the reins of ubuntu and unity
When heard the word “free”

Between you and me
We both knew “together we stand divided we fall”
And we now piece by piece falling like a hill of rocks
Like water in the stream
And we standing like a house with no beam
But still go so slowly yet not so bold
Either you or me is to blame
Because the division divided us
And together we could’ve cope

Between you and me
I find a lot of segregation, oppression, violence
And lack of acceptance and tolerance
Because we strangle our African brothers
And suffocate those with independent sexuality
Dragging in to mud their dignity

Between you and me
Is a brotherhood which lacks emergency
Are friends turning into enemies
Between you and me
Is an era where only youth dies
Actions that says ‘who cares what’
Lack conscious that asks “who am I? ”

Aren’t we the future South Africans
With Halo on our heads
With status in front of our names?
Or we South Africans for God sake?
Between you and me
There’s an answer