LESSONS FROM POLOKWANE
When father and son
Go to war together as allies
They cease to become father and son
They become soldiers in arms
They address each other as comrades
And when they return home
To share the spoils of war
They have become equals earned in war
They have both tasted the blood of their enemy in equal measure
They have spoken the same language of war
The father can no longer lay down the law of the house to the son
And the son cannot receive the law of the house from the father
Is it not a democracy?
After all, have they not all tasted blood equally?
It is difficult to move from a relationship of equals to unequals
Such was the tragedy of our revolution
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