For the children
I am Bra Mzi Mahola
I am Nana Walter Chakela
I am Yehuda Amichai
I am Refaat Alareer
I am Ian Fleming
I am Patricia Highsmith
I am Brad Pitt
I am Coco Chanel
I am Rilke
I am Nietzsche
I am Freud
I am Jung
I am Lou Andreas Salome
I am Malcolm X
I am George Botha
I am Steve Biko
I am Bessie Head
I am Ingrid Jonker
I am Sylvia Plath,
Anne Sexton
I am America,
I am Israel,
I am Palestine,
China, Russia, Australia,
Derek Walcott’s West India
I am Mufti Menk
I am Azania
I am everywhere
I am a child of God,
standing with a
a ripple of hope in my hands
I am freedom.