Mandela, Thatcher’s terrorist
Gandhi, Churchill’s seditious fakir
Face each other
Guardians of humility
Commeth the day, commeth the man !
More, commeth the decades
Commeth these men
Their bronze casts
Reveal neither color nor caste
Clearly not white
A problem for my forefathers
But these two stood their ground
In their own separate ways
Leaders today seek power and privilege
Madiba and Mahatma
Sought neither
Achieved so much more
The Leeu Collection, Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa
