Home invasion

A bullet for a Boer
and kill farmer,
kill a white
still rages on from
the ruling party
where members are singing it
from the age of eight

and in a rural district
a home invasion takes place
in the middle of the night
a male family member
is shot through the shoulder
tied up with wire
bashed with a baseball bat,
chopped with a panga-blade
and before getting to hospital
he is dead.

The woman in the house
is led to a room
where they are tied up
and are raped
and everything valuable
is carried away

And the incapable police
can find nobody
and the killers go free
and are still missing
like my two stolen cars.

poem by Gert Strydom
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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