Lost Innocence: Poem by Madiba

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Until the day before
You were radiant Happy
All you knew was
Eat, drink, laugh, and sleep

Your names were
No-problem and Smiley

All this changed
When this lurking gang of rapists struck
Blood flowed You cried,
Ur innocence is no more
One week of repeated rape
Left your face swollen
Bruised and bloodied

While you ran the gauntlet
Ur overseer Nero was fiddling
In far away lands

The Chief rapist kept bellowing
He raped you ‘cause
Twice he courted you
Twice you rejected him

And that you only chat males
That you unfairly chose
Yet he too is one of those
Virile men who could
Give you a dozen and half off-springs

Ur cries loud and scary
Couple with the danger of
Rapists as neighbour
Was too hot for comfort
For Suna ur Sister

Nero consulted his
Counterpart Njol
Suna’s overseer
It was agreed
Suna sends his sons over

They came thru the air, sea and land
They chased the rapists and their disciples
Some killed and some captured

Once you gained ur freedom
Suna’s sons were praised
Proclaimed heroes
Strange dresses are now fashion
Blue , green.
Speaking a different tongue
The lingua of the day punctuated with
Zarr deh comba, kolonail, para, commando
Sandarr moori, armeh

Gradually you regained ur radiance
But the scars are still there
Things have since never been the same


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