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.