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Education as Change
On-line version ISSN 1947-9417
Print version ISSN 1682-3206
Educ. as change vol.24 n.1 Pretoria 2020
http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8792
THEMED SECTION 2
POETRY
Trésor Musasa Kabamba
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. tmkabam@gmail.com
Native born yet imported
but I'm still important.
Got documents and files
still might be stabbed with a file.
Borders sketched on maps by false white masters,
yet drawn in blood by our African masses.
We torment persecute and murder our own:
Xenophobes, are you loyal to your skin: like Jesus or Judas?
Our black skin is the cross borne by us
Under the weight, our vertebrae are ground to dust.
Still, our blood: beloved own, strip us bare,
and whip gashes in our backs like our skin don't tear.
Fading masters left with keys to our resources,
left knives for black throats and police forces
Slavery was the first, xenophobia the sequel
Did the Word not say we're all made equal?