Rachelle Goromonzi Poet Rhyme

I Remember

i remember


I remember it all
Gwaai and Shangani
Natives being hung
Freedom songs being sung


I remember the color red,
The tainted soil
From ***** toil 
And anger boil

I remember the tears.
Children being robbed of motherhood;
Being robbed of fatherhood
I only stood.


I remember the times
Of colonial race
So there was a race
To find the ace!

I remember the ambush-
Firing what I held
The gun!
So I ran.

I remember never looking back
Twigs scratching my face

I remember hiding
Alas! They found me!

I remember the beatings,
Questions;
My fingers and toes
Growing less...

I remember the flowing blood
Mixing with the crimson sunset.
I hoped at dawn
I would yawn.


I remember closing my eyes.
In vain trying to open them.
The pain of realisation
I would never see dawn.

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