Youth day

It's a day
Not just a day
But in remembrance
Of all the young leaders
Who lost their lives
Fighting for their rights.
Youth day youth day.

Brutally killed
During apartheid era
By those so called policies
And soldiers
Who were judging
Our people by colour
Separating them by race
Oh young people lost
Their lives.
It's a youth day youth day. I'm remembrance of the our young people who were brutally killed.

Their boddies were all over the streets,
Like thrash on dumping site all over.
Blood streams
Like river meander
On the road all over.
Young people dead bodies all over the place like dead dogs
As they were killed
Like stray dogs
By the so called
Doomed soldiers and polices of doomed kingdom.

Where was humanity
In human nation?
Oh lord save their souls
In beautiful heaven.
Youth day, youth day.

There were times
I found myself crying
Watching young people
Brutally killed by these
Crocodiles nor predators
Oh our people were killed
And smashed like mash potatoes.

I see the youth
Drinking non stop
Trying to remove this pain
As they can't bare
Living with this pain
Nor facing this pain.
Oh lord save those poor souls as they were brutally killed
Fighting for better tomorrow.
It's a youth day, youth day .

By Bulelani Happyboy Mbanya