We finally got to Katanga
Katanga , beautiful as only darkness can be
We were still finding our bearing
And they pounced on us
They raped us
In the full glare of on lookers
They raped us
There was none come to our rescue
None to run to our need
Our situuation was hopeless
We had our pain shut up in our bones
We could not let it out
The waters of our humanness was spilt
So much of it
We fainted
we wondered at ourselves
We wondered at our situation
Why are we even alive?
They cut us
In the the full glare of onlookers
None came to our rescue
They denied us of our right to cry
Of our right to bleed
To bleed from our cuts
This right was mercilessly repressed
Who will save us?
Ida
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