Just A Minute Lord Let Me Be A Child Again

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