Shame! Cried out my spirit

My soul ripped apart, my tears dry

You took him under the shroud of lies

You clipped his wings maimed his feet

You silenced a nation's conscience

Led astray the reasonable jolted the sane

From Madiba to Xanana

Bhagat to Sitara

One person's terror is another's freedom

Decision is rule, rule law and law rules

Man elects man unreservedly

Only to imprison fellow men freely

The layperson looks on tongue-tied

Wondering why the tide hampers the mind

Citizens are stripped of irony

As masked faces return their query

Immigrants wonder at the dusk

See the sun set on their destiny

Just like the hills you demolish

Like the rivers you bleed

And the forests you mutilate

Punishment is meted to the hapless

The feeble labourer awaits justice

The unpaid worker cries for attention

There is little to do but fight

Surrender to such irreverence is impossible

But fight what? Fight who?

It is but a castle unreachable

A wall insurmountable

A bill no one passed

An opinion never asked

Ah, but the voiced truth is cacophony

To a political agenda devised hastily

To serve the well-fed the greedy

The tyranny continues, unfettered, unrevised

Numbed citizens fed a fallacy of unity

See their reflection in the eyes of the detainee