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Buried for Decades

For Neil Aggett, Jeannette Curtis and David Webster: murdered in different ways by the Apartheid police.

Buried for decades under the footfall

Of our busy lives, some deaths will not die.

Plastered on our retinas those faces call:

“We are still here! Still young. Though you may try

Turning your back, remember that we wait

 Where we were felled by bullet, blow or bomb

Unleased by agents of the lethal state

 That left us broken in an early tomb.”                             

Some wounds will weep forever although the blood

Has long run dry. We had to stop the tears

Lest all that death might root us where we stood

And stall the fight with paralyzing fears.

Now time and circumstance has dulled that dread

We must go back and fetch our shining dead.