In the wake of movements such as Cape Independence & other Afrikaner nationalist movements seeking self-determination within South Africa, what (black) people fail to see is that South Africa was never united to begin with & as the poem below states "kinship cannot be forced." When Apartheid was said to have ended, nobody questioned who made South Africa, why & how indigenous people came to be in South Africa. Now, we find ourselves in a land that is almost fighting against us as indigenous people & that has a very uncertain foundation.
AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
1. The land was bare, it was the wilderness 2. We tamed, ploughed & removed some illness
3. In separate lands, a language each
4. But today, this they no longer teach
5. Before a single foreign ship came
6. We could beasts & fire tame
7. Now, with new devices we seek to return our lands
8. In a modern world, we've embraced new innovations in the same lands
9. You, foreigner, too have your own land but seek to single us out in ours
10. Time does not freeze & you will get yours, we count the hours
11. You, foreigner, have embraced our language & made a home in our land
12. You, foreigner, have come to teach & not parasite - you will stand
13. You, foreigner, you cannot be us so do not force your foreign will
14. We will force an outcome to weed you parasite out - we will
16. Countryman, the land is to be worked - what are you afraid of?
17. Citizens, we can build a united land as our forefathers did - what are you afraid of?
18. Outsiders have forced their rule & tried to force their citizenship
19. We cannot force kinship
20. When we return what is ours, they cry traitor as though what they built was legitimate
21. But when we welcome enemies, we ourselves will become illegitimate
22. The ships have come & brought foreign innovations
23. We can make a nation from our many nations
24. One language, one people, one vision - that is a nation
25. But our ideal will never stand if our vision is divided
26. And the little platter that we fought for shall be splattered across the ground - & we shall finally be divided
27. The rainbow shines for but a few moments & is gone
28. What they never tell you is the rainbow is but an image that can never be grasped before it is gone
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