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Durban's ironic celebration of resurrection .

   
 
     
     
Street-lights    
casting rainbows through    
main street
pot-holes    
flickering themselves    
to a dark death    
-while wounded clouds    
pour tears    
at hunger;    
drenching      
the thirst for bread    
     
Thunder screams    
cultural      
war-cries    
with each    
shock    
of electric intent    
shattering      
the earth's silence    
     
Adrenaline    
holds    
the baby against    
her left breast    
while the right    
searches    
her grade school    
daughter's    
voice    
in washed     
death-traps;  
caused by    
a nation    
praying      
for far to much    
     
Christianity
celebrates    
in chocolate    
for one  
-while counting      
the drowned bodies    
un-found    
un-treated    
un-fed    
     
     
     
     
 
Written by RevolutionAL (Alistair Plint)
Published
Author's Note
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rescuers-hunt-missing-after-south-african-floods-kill-more-than-400-2022-04-17/
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