we have been yanked
we have been bruised
we have been pounded
we have been wounded
we have been abused
we have been refused
we have been harmed
we have been armed
we have been drugged
we have been stabbed
we have been fractured
we have been brutalized
we have been crucified
we have been declared
dead
gone
we have been entombed
we have been forgotten
we have been woken
from the dead
brutalized
crucified
murdered
and reburied –
we have been made restless
we have been made hopeless
we have been made homeless
we have been made useless
we have been made lifeless
we have bled
we have fled
we have mourned
we have suffered
we have survived
we have lamented
we have waited
we have resisted
yet
we have not lost hope
we have not lost focus:
come
let us build a new country
let us build a new nation
from the ashes of the fallen,
of the forgotten
in the land that we love;
come, let us resurrect
what they have interred
in the land that we love –
come, let us build a new
nation
from the ashes of the fallen,
from the ashes of the forgotten
in the land that we love!
Come,
let us make a new nation
in the land that we love!
