Ode To Andre P Brink

And so we slip into summer’s season With questions that does not fit the reason And as we talk in deepening dusk An elephant dies with a broken tusk A great shadow by cloud eclipsed A man who with a brilliant twist Could weave the words that changed my heart Of living together not dying apart Rumours of rain in a dry white season You answered my questions that gave me reason To turn my back on my own brotherhood To turn towards a future that’s good Andre P Brink you will live on As my children’s faces have smiles upon The freedom you saw and wrote about So Andre, in honour your name I shout! You unsung hero of liberation’s fight As you walk away into that dark night.