One Day The People Will Wake Up Poem by LLM Mbatha

One day The People will wake up
open up their eyes
look at their dictator and see him
for what he really is: a man!
No more and no less than the one walking
right there across the street
At that point a “new revolution” will be
conceived in the minds
and the hearts of a “powerless” multitude
They will realize the actual magnitude
of their POWER!
They will accept that wrong is wrong
it does not matter who is doing it (Malcolm X)
They will also accept that a struggle without losses
is not a struggle (Steve Biko)
A clearly seeing multitude
an angry, but focused multitude
will rise up to demand their little-freedoms
to demand human-respect and human-dignity
in the land of their birth
Nor lash on the back, nor bullets flying
nor fire, nor rain will stop them
from ridding Afrika of all her dictators
from building up a new Afrika, a new Zimbabwe...