Democratic decade, a perspective

06 May 2004

Yogibear
"The winds of change are also emitting swirling gusts
of rhetorical flatulence!" (With acknowledgements to
Harold MacMillan - statesman - and Ramsay Milne - journalist.)
Late '90...this comment my audience did hear;
Our lives changed forever, after 2 Feb of that year!
Apartheid's last rites...new dawn brightly glowed;
But 'midst great euphoria, way-out rhetoric flowed!
"Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!" among others we heard,
"One settler, one bullet!" was just as absurd!
Then St. James killings,  Chris Hani, Amy Biehl,
Our land both great anger, and deep sorrow did feel!
A new dispensation?...endless talks upon talks,
At first no inch given, neither by doves nor the hawks! 
But through honest endeavour, much give and take too,
A miraculous transition from old order to new!
A great human crime! most of us deeply feel
That scars of apartheid, time won't easily heal!
But today still to blame for all troubles, travails?
From flaky dandruff, to in growing  toenails?
Decade of democracy...great strides we have made,
Should now not to rest, those glib excuses be laid?
Admit past mistakes, then to future move on,
Before we're all history, or our memories long gone!

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