OUR BLACKNESS TO THEM APPEARS LIKE AN INEVITABLE CRIME
Poem by Refilwe J. Mokgatlenyane
There was love but you chose to hate
You chose to betray God and discriminate
You chose to cast blood upon the black rivers
You chose to imbed it in your mind, to stick it to your subconscious forever like a birthmark
You chose to believe that black is inhumane, black is insane
You chose not to listen but rather to kill
God created mankind as stewards of creation but what his people are doing to each other right now I bet was never his will
You chose to pin guilt to the innocent because of their race
You did it proudly with no shame in your face
You chose to be heartless to the innocent
Chose to be cruel to the peasants
You chose to throw bullets like stones in a catapult
You chose to kill and not spare a black life
You chose to live with it
Pass it on to your generation so they inherit it
But you don’t realize you ‘re actually ruining tomorrow
You’re painting them with discriminatory make and you’re transmitting today’s sorrow
Refilwe Mokgatlenyane is a young writer, an aspiring entrepreneur and an LLB student at the University of Botswana. Her writing journey has started way back since she was 9 years old, she started off as a short story writer and changed to novels and later on started specialising more on poetry writing.
