SEARCH FOR A STOLEN . . .
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:20 pm
In hostile landscape, full of danger, no place to be complacent
Lonesome figure plodding along, eyes cast down, body slightly bend
Dressed in cast-off clothing, tousled hair, nothing on her feet
Exposed to vagaries of weather, sun, rain, wind, taking no heed
Her instinct, hooded eyes, focussed on her one and only task
There was a mumbled response about child, if one dared to ask
A darling daughter, stolen by Government people, she would reply
Bereft of all happiness, was bitter towards society and very shy
They had taken her to give her a chance in life, better education
So the better she was prepared to survive in a white man's nation
There was no mention of where, when, nor what they did with her
All she knew was her darling daughter was out there, somewhere
She kept on searching, a picture in her memory was all she had
Of a darling daughter who never knew her real mum and dad
Finding her behind the driving force could be a futile endless search
To give her darling daughter the love only a mother gives at birth
Now one day a young woman was visiting a cemetery in small town
Discovered name, amongst others, on graveside identical to her own
She too had been searching, like herself, for her natural mum
Was this really the end of her search, to the right place had she come?
A sad coincidence how, finally, mother and darling daughter did meet
She, like her mother, wearing cast-off clothing, nothing on her feet
She stood there at her mother's grave, tears streaming down her face
Never expecting that this was end of search, her mum's final resting place
Lonesome figure plodding along, eyes cast down, body slightly bend
Dressed in cast-off clothing, tousled hair, nothing on her feet
Exposed to vagaries of weather, sun, rain, wind, taking no heed
Her instinct, hooded eyes, focussed on her one and only task
There was a mumbled response about child, if one dared to ask
A darling daughter, stolen by Government people, she would reply
Bereft of all happiness, was bitter towards society and very shy
They had taken her to give her a chance in life, better education
So the better she was prepared to survive in a white man's nation
There was no mention of where, when, nor what they did with her
All she knew was her darling daughter was out there, somewhere
She kept on searching, a picture in her memory was all she had
Of a darling daughter who never knew her real mum and dad
Finding her behind the driving force could be a futile endless search
To give her darling daughter the love only a mother gives at birth
Now one day a young woman was visiting a cemetery in small town
Discovered name, amongst others, on graveside identical to her own
She too had been searching, like herself, for her natural mum
Was this really the end of her search, to the right place had she come?
A sad coincidence how, finally, mother and darling daughter did meet
She, like her mother, wearing cast-off clothing, nothing on her feet
She stood there at her mother's grave, tears streaming down her face
Never expecting that this was end of search, her mum's final resting place