panic IN THE BLACK QUARTER

Run!

Run to your homes!

Grab your child,

Your husband, wife,

Neighbor…

Run!

Hide!

Behind the door

Beneath the stoep

In a cave

In a ditch.

Hide!

Then pray:

Lord, please

Let the torches be blind

Tonight. Lord,

Let the moon white shadows

Pass me by tonight.

Lord, lord,

Make me not afraid

not afraid

not afraid…