Seeing, They Could Not Perceive Poem by LLM Mbatha

Seeing, they could not perceive
Hearing, they could not understand
Having, they could not recognize
Church, but no salvation
Knowledge, but no belief
When the Book said: You shall not kill,
steal, oppress, cause pain to man, …
They took both the Book and the guns
Each on its hand, and
They went on ‘preaching’ and killing around
Stealing in foreign lands…
They did not see
They did not understand
They did not recognize
Therefore
Though ‘civilized’ they remained savage!