Poem

I recently came across this poem in my reading that I need to post now, perhaps just for my future referencing.

"Nineteen seventy-six
You stand accused of deaths
Imprisonment
Exiles
and detentions.
You lost the battle
You
were not revolutionary
Enough
We do not boast about you
Year of fire, year of ash."

--Oupa Thando Mthimkulu, regarding people's feelings of the Soweto uprising
Originally printed in Staffrider (Johannesburg), 7:3,4 (1988).
Reprinted in A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson (pg. 238).