Prayer Of The Bones (Iv) Poem by Gert Strydom

My Lord God, your reign goes everywhere
observing the living rulers you a right here,
on your day you will reconstruct the dead
while some people do for you second coming prepare.

The President's Indian friends and all their business you do know,
the acts of African leaders and their wives do in your eyes glow,
also the corruption right through government to up very high
while in great love still your goodwill on them all you do bestow

but you are witness to the great oppression in this fair land
and still in mercy you do withhold your destructive hand
while my people are robbed, raped, pillaged and murdered
where at times speechless to all of this I stand,

where Eugene Terreblancé was unfortunately right,
was slaughtered and tortured because he was white
and like thousands of farmers and townsfolk
as a minority there is no justice or any escape in sight.

I have read your promise to bring back life to the bare bones
to raise a great army out of your valiant ones,
to again afresh reconstruct them with veins and flesh
to fight against those that do not to your law atone.

To escape the revenge of the dark peoples in this country,
to be from this unending great oppression totally free
some of my Afrikaner people are scattered throughout the world
but too stuck to this nation and land are others like me

but I do believe that the majority of all colours and creeds are suffering,
that this oppression is much more than a black upon white thing,
that great evil and Lucifer's will is at the core of it,
that it does challenge everyone who are existing

and I cannot bow down to men or beg for anyone's charity,
do want an own place in the sun and total liberty
to live a life to your will and to its fill and to earn a living
and I beg you to consider us poor sinners and to let your will be

but much more I do beg you to hold to your promise and to act,
to with your unconquerable forces the evil to attack
to give all people in this country equal rights and liberty,
to help us turn our country to you and your will back.