Just A Minute Lord Let Me Be A Child Again
By Althea Banda-Hansmann
Sometime during 1986-87
Just a minute Lord let me be a child again
Not long ago, those feelings of love I knew
But oneday they slipped away
So, if I may once again
Pick up the broken pieces and try again.
Lord, casspirs and guns,
Fire, tyres and stones,
Iron bars… and colour bars…
Are the only bars I know.
I am hurting deep inside
While hate and anger is all I see,
I am kept as a slave in a cage
With guns around the cage
That say:
S H O O T! S H O O T! S H O O T!
S H O O T! J U S T I C E!
S H O O T! U N I T Y!
S H O O T! E Q U A L I T Y!
I am deprived of love
And my heart is aching for freedom.
Lord I have come the end
H E L P M E… H E L P M E…
Help me to feel like a child again
Help me to know that I am loved
And can love again.
Just one day I forgot
That feelings of love, peace and joy I had
It costed me all I had
So, Father just for one minute
If not always
LET ME BE A CHILD AGAIN>
F R E E !
Free from the iron bars… detention
Free from the man with the gun… the SADF
Free from my fears and tears
Free from my anger and hate
F R E E F R O M A P A R T H E I D
Free to share my feelings of
Peace, love and joy
Let me be free to possess the things
I once knew as a child
J U S T I C E, F R E E D O M … and the right to speak my thoughts.
JUST LET ME BE A CHILD AGAIN