David Kapp, Belthorn Estate
A pregnant pause (I had)
down Thornton Road
on the way
to my parents’ place
On the way
past a memorial
to an event
we care to remember
when reminded
On the way
past the scene of
our own Trojan Horse
our own Greek Tragedy
for the three young victims
of our recent past
A pregnant pause then
for all our tragedies past
and present, too
A pregnant pause then
for all those days
we remember
Not forgetting those days
we religiously turn
the other cheek to
(remember Biko and Sobukwe)
Days that don’t fit
our political ideology
of forgetting how
we got here
(and why)
(And then we blame
our youth for a lack
of remembering)
A pregnant pause then
for all those days
we care to not remember
Pausing, pregnantly, past the Trojan Horse Memorial outside the former Hewat College in Thornton Road, the early evening of 20 June 2007. I have, too, paused, pregnantly, at the memorial over the road from the Athlone Magistrate’s Court.
And you?