MANDIBA
Separeteness. Racism. Nationalism. Imprisonment.
Indebtedness. Nihilism. Despotism. Disillusionment.
Apartheid is a noble ideology.
Voices. Oppression. Recalcitrance. Sentences.
Noises. Suppression. Penance. Armistices.
Apartheid is not a noble ideology.
Whiteness! Whiteness!
There is one question that comes to mind;
Does the white skin make one a god
Who is immune to human imperfections?
Excruciating history of injustice in favor of chauvinism.
The food of thousands of years can still be hot.
Does the white skin make one a god?
Ha ha ha, in the White history brutality is not.
Does the white skin make one a god?
The time Mandela… Mandiba
Got banished to a trying world of the den,
He was called an enemy of the nation he loved
He could have been sentenced to death
With weapons of oppression and blindness
And despite the bitter taste of suppression
Mandela… Mandiba while in the den
Was not solitary; his vision was with him
And destiny; and destiny could not be destroyed then
He only went to change his appearance.
Ho… Mandela… Mandiba… your term
was not a curse that wasted your youthful strength
your moral power, strength of character
waxed stronger and stronger with the time;
the most famous of your type your term
made you.
Ho… Mandela… Mandiba…truth
at work, the sun shining, the heavens pouring
out of hearts; they thought it was over, they thought they
broke you, their intent constituted in their
book. The pen and the sword at loggerheads, truth
making itself evident; and their passion in
power, and their theory in practice, and its
implementation was a mess, and the truth must not be
proclaimed? So be it…
Ha… Mandela…
Ha… Mandiba…
Truth tried and thrown into a trodden tray
The terrible trial of the terrific truth not astray
A true symbol of the oppressed
Who fundamental rights it is said they do not posses
And those asking for it get suppressed.
Those nailing justice fail when assessed,
By Nature’s cries they are not impressed
Hearts bleed for them, some profess.
Hearts going to the helpless must confess…
Cruel systems of ruling cannot endure…
Ho, it is well…Mandela
Ho, it is well…Mandiba
(Ben Alani, 2009)
Separeteness. Racism. Nationalism. Imprisonment.
Indebtedness. Nihilism. Despotism. Disillusionment.
Apartheid is a noble ideology.
Voices. Oppression. Recalcitrance. Sentences.
Noises. Suppression. Penance. Armistices.
Apartheid is not a noble ideology.
Whiteness! Whiteness!
There is one question that comes to mind;
Does the white skin make one a god
Who is immune to human imperfections?
Excruciating history of injustice in favor of chauvinism.
The food of thousands of years can still be hot.
Does the white skin make one a god?
Ha ha ha, in the White history brutality is not.
Does the white skin make one a god?
The time Mandela… Mandiba
Got banished to a trying world of the den,
He was called an enemy of the nation he loved
He could have been sentenced to death
With weapons of oppression and blindness
And despite the bitter taste of suppression
Mandela… Mandiba while in the den
Was not solitary; his vision was with him
And destiny; and destiny could not be destroyed then
He only went to change his appearance.
Ho… Mandela… Mandiba… your term
was not a curse that wasted your youthful strength
your moral power, strength of character
waxed stronger and stronger with the time;
the most famous of your type your term
made you.
Ho… Mandela… Mandiba…truth
at work, the sun shining, the heavens pouring
out of hearts; they thought it was over, they thought they
broke you, their intent constituted in their
book. The pen and the sword at loggerheads, truth
making itself evident; and their passion in
power, and their theory in practice, and its
implementation was a mess, and the truth must not be
proclaimed? So be it…
Ha… Mandela…
Ha… Mandiba…
Truth tried and thrown into a trodden tray
The terrible trial of the terrific truth not astray
A true symbol of the oppressed
Who fundamental rights it is said they do not posses
And those asking for it get suppressed.
Those nailing justice fail when assessed,
By Nature’s cries they are not impressed
Hearts bleed for them, some profess.
Hearts going to the helpless must confess…
Cruel systems of ruling cannot endure…
Ho, it is well…Mandela
Ho, it is well…Mandiba
(Ben Alani, 2009)
