Black Mother

black mother the white of day stains your painted dress the black of night turns razor sharp feet that wear flaming coals a soul that bleeds outside and in where trees bear crimson fruit as roots full bore hypocrisies drill so deep to dig her earth still plough the surface clinging vines of apartheid how much she suffers raped and ravaged again and again strijdom malan verwoerd names that stain her southern land g7 dead zones from 48 and cape town clearings with sharpeville apologies still segregate now die and die and die awake by fate arise friends of earth minstrels of life cast a new play sing for the future move for the past turn now in loves instance an old face a new name an old shadow seeds to grow white sister black brother white father black mother african Heart african soul =z=