<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392207" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beloved Country, Endless Journey</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">from one ocean to another<br>the struggle for human progress<br>continues on its journey<br>towards the endless sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2007, nearly over<br>20,000 homicides<br>childless mothers<br>weeping for the stolen lives</div><div style="margin:10px 0">50,000 girls and women raped<br>stolen bodies<br>damaged lives<br>300,000 deaths from AIDS<br>the beloved country cries</div><div style="margin:10px 0">brave and unforgotten ones<br>have brought this country back to one<br>Papa Mandela you all have met<br>now you know Lucky Dube too</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but not the men who carjacked him<br>as he dropped off his sons<br>as if he were a stranger<br>unhuman to them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gauteng, the unploughed fields<br>Cape Town's windy shores<br>Kwazulu hills so green and low<br>the feet of the Maluti mountains<br>draped in shame and snow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">? ? , ? ? ? babies born<br>to HIV and pain<br>1.2 million orphans<br>crying to the silent wall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">imagine the death of a single child<br>imagine if we lose them all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that long, unending journey<br>from slavery through prison<br>surviving torture all the way<br>up to the gates of freedom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">come so far, from mbaqanga<br>to liberation song<br>cut down by bullets in the blink<br>of a man who was his brother<br>before the world went wrong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there's time to touch the golden shores<br>of a country loved so well<br>refusing all the turns to hell<br>remembering the starting place<br>and what they started for.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>.................. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Notes on data: <br>Homicides (women and men) and rapes (grossly under-reported) - from national statistics. <br>Deaths and children orphaned due to AIDS - UN estimates based on national sources. <br>Numbers of babies born with HIV - unavailable, inevitably in the tens of thousands at current adult prevalence and treatment rates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392207" data-title="Beloved Country, Endless Journey de Frank Bana" data-description="from one ocean to another the struggle for human progress continues on its journey towards the endless sky 2007, nearly over 20,000 homicides childless mothers weeping for the stolen lives 50,000 girls and women raped stolen bodies damaged lives..."></div> </div> </div>

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