Sobukwe… on his death by Don Mattera

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It was our suffering

         and our tears

         that nourished and kept him alive

         their law that killed him.

         Let no dirges be sung

         no shrines be raised

         to burden his memory;

         men such as he

         need no tombstones

         to speak their fame.

         Lay him down on a high mountain

         that he may look

         on the land he loved

         the nation he died for

         Men feared the fire of his soul…