Youth Liberation struggle: - Pre-colonial to Neo-colonial transition era

 They grew up with a law on their faces
They wanted to question the law
They kept the question to their hearts
They became slaves to the law
A law they did not want
A law that suppressed them
Inadvertently, they endorsed the law as their forefathers

When they were aging
That law was also on their children’s faces
Who also wanted to question the law
Questions which died in their hearts
Gradually they became slaves to the law
That same law their fathers did not want
The same law they did not want
The law that suppressed them
Unwittingly, they upheld the law as their fathers

Now they are old
Today we are here
We have that law on our faces
The law our grandfathers wanted to question
The law our fathers wanted to question
The law they kept in their hearts
The law that suppressed them
The law that repressed them

Amplified now we Question the law
We act not to abolish the law
We proclaim an amendment
Incepting a law of youth participation
A law of youth involvement
We usher a new dispensation

A dispensation where we will be old and aging
Where our children and grandchildren will love the law
Will uphold the law in just
Will not be enslaved to a law
Consciously, they will endorse the law
Subject the law to alterations
A generation with a dignified voice
The will reckon: that generation broke the waters

A poem revealing the transition of youth involvement and challenges faced.
Written by: Tinashe Chirape

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