Farm murders are a shocking
Statistic we can see
From 1996 till 2012
They be rising passed
361,000 people killed
And all of them were human beings
And their families blood was spilled
This piece of news on another farm
In Rodora a family were
Beaten to death with shock and awe
Blunt force trauma blood and gore
A blood bath in their precious place
A nine year old too such disgrace
Greed resentment racial stuff
The commandoes disbanded
Which was so tough
On rural farms where the police
Seldom visit there is no peace
They are after money and firearms too
Vehicles what can one do
Private security seems to be
The only safeguard tragically
Marches have taken place elsewhere
In Pretoria under the glare
Of the news media and the police
From corruption apparently theres no release
Innocence lost on that fateful day
Imagine the panic and fear the sway
Each was battered to kingdom come
Just thinking about this makes me numb
The Democratic alliance sees
The need for policing among the trees
These farms are vital yet are laid bare
And are being slaughtered everywhere
One hopes the police will get to grips
With all this corruption that clearly
Rips
The heart out of a country where
There is so much that all can share
Such hatred clearly does exist
Resentment too that does enlist
The ignorant and the arrogant too
Bad blood and bitterness coming through
Its a melting pot of agony
Where corruption sits
And maliciously
malignant gangs demonstrate
Their hatred of the country state
Why do people resent so much
And abhorrently get out of touch
With true reality simply put
To take a life to grind one’s foot
Into the face of another who
Came through childhood of course we do
Whose mother loved them and then that scorn
That festered in a child so born
Of revulsion and the underlined
Hatred for another kind
The police will now be on their trail
Investigations which well might fail
New groups set up and new patrols
To try and protect those rural souls
Out on a limb apparently
Where outlaws roam so successfully
Look at the figure so many dead
Lost lives rivers running red
With the blood of the innocent
Children who
Got caught up in the battles too
One cannot imagine a reason why
a nine year old just had to die
One cannot imagine the creature who
Would have slaughtered her or run her through
This contempt for life and dark disdain
Of an innocent whose honest pain
Is no different from the likes of those
Whose meanness and worthless status grows
Whilst others despise the ugly look
Since they are never brought to book
The roguery and rascality
And the wicked criminality
A terrible crime committed by persons unknown
On a 42 year old man and his 46 year old fiancee
And their daughter of 9 years old and her grand father
Visiting from the UK aged 73 all beaten to death
An utter blood bath. One hopes the police catch them
And make them pay for this evil
Last verse just written following new news that the child was raped before being battered to death
The nine year old was raped and murdered
A baby lost this way
Misogynists of the lowest form
The death penalty I say
So venomous so virulent
So baneful to be sure
The lowest form of life
That ever was scraped off
Any floor
And the little girl we cannot
Imagine how she felt
Persecuted so maligned
By the punishment that was dealt
South Africa must rally
Must get up off its arse
Find these bloody infidels
No stone must they pass
Find them deal with them
Hang them this crime one of pure hate
So final and so squalid
For this to have been her fate
If there is a god in heaven
Then my request is clear
Wipe this evil from her heart
And return her full of cheer
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.
Blessed Be Rex … thank you.
No thank you for drawing it to my attention i have sent it around tweeted it to as many places in guateng to newspapers to radio to TV to embassies
Facebook and e mails so if the national press are not covering it perhaps a poem might break the ice who knows
Google rapidly re posts my poems as does yahoo which spreads it further the stone in the water syndrome
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Rex, I don’t think I have felt more emotional over a poem in my life. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It cut me up this one just writing to you now the tears are rolling again
Thanks for giving me the opportunity
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