Twelve years ago
A rooster crows
The sunrise is clothed
Rooibos tea and biscuits
Murder statistics
Bread pudding and Mielipap
Zweletemba Township and the poverty gap
Bare feet and open hands
Children welcome across the lands
Blood stained clay weeps
Where colonization and apartheid sleeps
Afrikaans defiantly murmurs where it once was banned
Alone the missionary stands.
By Shannon McKemie, M.A.
10-14-2015