To Teachers In The New South Africa (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

To fit beautifully into the new political order
and to base outcome on education
you will systematically indoctrinate
Fascistic dogma to children:
that the community is more important than the individual,
that all things rather do belong to the community
and scale down competition and own ingenuity and skill
as if no individuality belongs anywhere,
you will come with a new kind of twisted distorted history
from which the absolute truth is missing,
will hang the mistakes of deceased predecessors around a whole nation
and will hide the truth of Jesus Christ from the children,
you will make bloody-red correction marks on thousands of answering-sheets
and the report of my bright-eyed-child will in revolt start to burn.

© Gert Strydom