Elegy for Madiba!
Forever Young
Days of my youth filled with experience
Experience of slavery it was
Seen how my people suffered apartheid
No one to help; felt dejected
But I always promise something
To be forever young
Souls damaged under discrimination
Children studied with no assimilation
Brutality becomes normality
In the presence of Native Royalty
But I always promise something
To be forever young
Racism painted our flags red
Farmers farmed to be survived
By children that know no hope
Even with the presence of World’s pope
But I always promise something
To be forever young
Forever young was my aim
When I stood to fight the flame
Brought on us by apartheid
In the land of our Beloved
But I always promise something
To be forever young
I’ve fought the good fight
Was like the Python’s bite
Even with the eternal pain
In our domain we have unending gain
But I always promise something
To be forever young
Now, I must join the ancestors
To sit and look for investors
In the land of my survival
To renew it with revival
Without gainsaying,
Always in your heart
Am forever young!
First published on Facebook on 2013-12-06 at this link.