Plaatjie
Mahlobegoane
Tomorrow
Africa
At last with
resigned, regretful and remorseful faces shall they say
sorry Africa
and alike many
others who have failed you yesterday, as are many today,
whose pacts and
acts are persistently drowning yours in sorrow,
one hopes that
you find another to forgive, when your time comes...
tomorrow Africa!
The animosity,
suffering and inhumanity created;
that has shipped
and banished most hearts to eternal fear and neglect
will be heard
of no more when another morrow knocks,
to resurrect
the spirit of ubuntu - botho —humanity...
tomorrow Africa!
The ridicule
and demoralising remarks that swamped and throttled,
many others'
senses of esteem, worth and confidence,
and rooted feelings
of rejection, stupidity and inferiority
vastly distorting
cultures throughout,
will be heard
of no more
when tomorrow
knocks to wake Africa up.
Tomorrow will
see
the arising of
pride and hope that were crushed, mashed and squashed so
mercilessly
to blind the
sights and hearts of Africans;
emerging to light
and warm their eyes and feelings
when the dawn
of your time comes
tomorrow Africa!
When sparkles
of golden rays signal the arrival of your time Africa
the consciousness
that dashed and varnished so quickly,
to only forsake
their judgements and feelings
will in time
bounce back to haunt restless consciences and fickle hearts
beyond the horizon
of today, tomorrow Africa
Today's doubtful,
hesitant and faint hearted to African commitments
will tomorrow
find hiding places
down by those
streams, rivers, and waterfalls;
where their cries,
screams and howls will be overwhelmed by nature
shall they sit
and with regret weep;
tomorrow Africa!
Today Africa
shall identify and proclaim her uniqueness
and change the
perceived bad and battered side of its worth to good and
valuable
for in doing
that today, tomorrow the harvest shall flourish
when time dawns
for Africa,
tomorrow Africa!
Arise people,
arise Africa!
work hard today
to mend Africa's ills in unity and with surety
that tomorrow
when the clock strikes the beginning of time
and as the cockerel
blasts its wake up call
Africa shall
then know rest.
Yesterday time
gave birth to the dawn of the world
tomorrow will
be the dawn of a new Africa
where autocracy,
debt, poverty, famine, refugees, and civil war are no more
Africa's time...
tomorrow Africa!
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