Lessons For The Future Poem by Jabulani Mzinyathi

when what has been hidden
from the wise and the prudent
has been revealed to the babe and the suckling
when the cupboards can no longer hold the skeletons
when those stories are told
when the seditious songs are sung
that is when this winter is gone
when there is the glamour and glitter of summer
that shall be the healing of this nation
that fear of the truth shall be gone
when the unrepentant shall repent
that shall be the healing of the nation
that is when the lessons of the future are drawn
drawn from the tragedies of the past