HOMO SAPIENS
This poem is dedicated to all those who resisted Apartheid including Dr Goonam, Dr Neil Aggett,
Professor Dennis Brutus and Attorney Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s current president.
Human beings.
Delicate, puny, vulnerable.
Their flesh, blood, bones and nerves,
Eyes, ears, nails and hearts
are so easily tortured.
They’re oh so fragile, and yet so valorous.
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