Apartheid

He was baptized into slavery 
And submerged in the winter 
Of your hatred 
And was converted to poverty 
In the land of gold,

You taught him that GOD 
Was a white baas 
Who had invented the pass! 
And the police were 
The angels of death,

He learned to read 
Whites only 
Lest he fall into heresy 
And desecrate your piss-pots,

And as you crept 
Out of the garden 
Of your humanity 
And excommunicated 
Yourselves from justice 
And damned your generation 
Chained in gold 
To a leper colony, 

And as he stumbled 
Through his oppressive crucifixion 
You took him off your cross 
And sold him in the market place 
To mercenaries while you counted the rosaries 
Of your crimes to man,

Now he a victim 
Of your greed 
A witness to your crimes 
Is finally free.

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