Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! No.6, September/October 1980
There’s no distance in the world
Can alter the colour of blood,
Life can take only one course.
The Pen cannot smite the ties,
And even law can’t change. It can
hurt only
But it cannot take the family,
That will always be yours.
Alone, I am without strength,
United, there are chances and hope,
Solidarity wins wars. We’re in this
together.
There’s love, for humanity, a Prize
We shall win.
Your children are yours,
Your life is with them.
We won’t let the Racist state decide,
Who should live together
Because of the colour of their skin.
Unity is stronger than Courts,
A building will crumble.
Through your life and your children
You are eternal.
Laws can never weaken that, ever.
In the face of brutality and Racism
We shall hold fast together. There is
faith.
Because you have us and we bleed
with you.
We’ve beat them, they thought we
would never,
You have won
Because you’re who you are,
Because love always conquers hate.
This poem was sent to Anwar Ditta by a prisoner in a British gaol.
