To Oscar

Really?
Again?
What more do we need??
Is our reputation not bad enough,
Did you feel you had to help?

Just being born into this culture gets me pegged as racist
Homophobic
An intolerant poppie*
Now you want to add homocidal too?

Has this country not been humiliated enough?
In the span of two years
We lose a national treasure
Humilliate ourselves at the moment the whole world is watching
And have our most prolific athlete commit murder!

You were the spokesperson for everything good
You showed the world that we were healing
That we are a country that is diverse as it is accepting
But you ruined it and once again
We sit with someone elses mess to clean up.

*Afrikaans slang. The word means doll but is used to describe a shallow woman