We Have Heard It All Before PDF Print E-mail
A Poem by Shepherd Mandhlazi

Bespectacled
Frothing at the mouth
'The liberation struggle'
'Imperialist stooges'
'Land to the people'
'Never to be a colony again'
We have heard it
We have it all before
Even louder we have heard it
We have heard it all before
Even louder we have heard:
Empty stomachs rumbling
Teargas canisters exploding
The presidential motorcade
More hate speeches
Police sprapnel
Baton sticks on skulls
The marching ex-combatants
We have heard it all