The Second Dispossession
First came the strangers with maps and flags Invasive, like ants to a feast In wonder, they gazed upon our land– Wide, wild, untouched by fence or boundary Where man, bird and beast roamed free Each belonging to no one but themselves So they called us headless. We, whose spirits birthed kingdoms? Preposterous! And with swift strokes of the mighty pen, Lines were drawn across our lives and hearts. As bloodless as it was brutal, it reads: "We hereby claim this land for Her Majesty the Queen!" But our fathers arose, And fought and bled and won it back But when the invading flags were lowered, New masters emerged from among us: Big men, genteel ladies, pot-bellied tycoons, Chiefs, or is it 'thiefs'? We know not, Multinational looters and robbers in suits, and the political crooks behind them. "The land does not belong to us; we belong to it, It cannot be sold"! Our fathers said, Now they grieve in their gr...