Truth Hurts Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

It hurts to tell the truth for your own truce
You saw the liberation war raging
Countrymen behaving uncouth

Countrymen behaving uncouth
Your house marked for bombing
Enemies pretending it was unused

It hurts to tell the truth for your own truce
Even the regime BSAP got wind of this
Guarded your house the night through

It hurts to tell the truth for your own truce
Your brother slept on the roof
The second night the BSAP withdrew

Countrymen behaving uncouth
Your independence is underwritten in blood
Many died for freedom of your youth

Years after the war you go full circle like fools
Freedom fighters having forgotten the ethos
Countrymen behaving uncouth
It hurts to tell the truth for your own truce