Forget Us Not

Forget us not (For the countless South Africans, black and white, who sacrificed their lives for democracy) forget us not fellow traveller in our just cause ‘aluta continua’ was our refrain as we trudged in soggy marshes malarial fevers lashing us in the summer rain ‘amandla’ we shouted as we hurled stones at that heartless foe facing their metallic beasts with our arrows and our bow forget us not fellow traveller in our just cause ‘aluta continua’ is our refrain still ‘amandla’ we shout today too as the fight continues for the many that yearn for a world less cruel, and more true forget us not fellow traveller in our just cause though we have passed and in the earth we lie remember us who fell and a tear or two for us in solemn moments do cry forget us not fellow traveller as you pick up our stones forget us not as you exhume our tattered rags and bones forget us not and do not our cherished ideals betray forget us not fellow traveller in our just cause for we too still believe in that promise of a new day forget us not.