Aah Steve Biko

Aah Steve Biko

My inspirational alchemist

Who lit a spark in heart in my youth.

The spark of defiant courage

Galvanising our angry exclusion

Into formidable army of volunteers

Ready to die for our freedom.

And die many did.

The blood of martyrs continue to nourish the tree of freedom.

Reminding us

That we have nothing to lose but our chains.

That the mind of the oppressed is the main weapon in the hands of the oppressor.

Aah how we yearn for your servant leadership.

The sacrifice of your life

When leaders massacre hope with a chainsaw.

We look to you.

To stir the loins of new beginnings.

As we wander despair

And fall again into the fissures of brokenness.

We are at the crossroads.

Four score and six

Since your brutal murder by apartheid assassins.

Our freedom again bludgeoned by the stormtroopers of elites.

In order to preserve the whiteness of the status quo.

Unite the ancestors

Black and white.

While we remember the original sins of slavery and colonialism.

We can in radical colloboration

Incubate the future

Freed from the vestiges of our past.

Ushering in harmony with the Other.

And all species that we share

Mother Earth with.

🙏🏾💚💜❤️