Redemption songs sung by the black nation <br />Pulverize the steel bars miles away from the swimming island, <br />There drown their Hero to honour their action, <br />Brutally separated from his entity to a slavery land. <br /> <br />Rose a Sun in the middle of the night <br />And with its firing rays Dark was temporarily conquered. <br />Lost in the midst of oppression he bowed before the burning Light <br />With his knees but with his heart he stood and bled for the murdered. <br /> <br />There he breaths in a small house named DeF…F…Fea…teD, <br />Pronounced with retarded voices for he, for the nation, kept the fate. <br />Jail walls do not cease destiny nor confine a heroes mind <br />As a sanctuary they also act, they protect and never bate! <br /> <br />The Sea finally gave birth to a legend, <br />Purified as gold, above human expectations; all he breaths is unity. <br />No human eye could see with one colour, men depend <br />On each other! His acts are of great divinity. <br /> <br />For the deflation they felt they in return wanted upper elevation <br />Ready to split the white blood as a toast to freedom. <br />Though he endured more pain he drove against revenge as part of the revolution, <br />For in all of His misery He went deep and found wisdom! <br /> <br />If I had only three words to define South African history, <br />To speak my heart, for the blacks and whites, to the most pain and joy that I feel, <br />I would scream to our bridge of forgiveness and say “Madiba our victory! ” <br />For only the heavens are above his blessings, more than the words he speaks his actions are off the reel <br /> <br />Even eagles that fly up in the sky found no such inspiration <br />And the wild animals in the forests have no such Hero, <br />God blessed South Africa; I wish I could shake the hand that built this Rainbow Nation.<br /><br />Mishack Mchunu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/27-lines-for-nelson-rolihlahla-mandela/
