Amputation & Education

 

Some wounds won’t scab over

As some wounds never heal

They are infected by colonial blades

That hot irons won’t seal

Puss filled abominations

tainted by avarice and greed

you cannot absolve the guilty knife

whilst open wounds still bleed

 

You say ‘history was not written in pencil,

You cannot rub it out’

It’s not what it was written in

But who wrote it that raises doubt.

So we challenge the flat-earthers

And those who deny the holocaust

But we are happy to continue the myth

That slavery came without a cost.

 

So if your wounds are not healing

Take swift action don’t hesitate

Take a cleansing scalpel to the scars

Grit your teeth and amputate

And if you must have statues

Leave the plinth as a stub and write a new plaque

About how we learned from history

That this country was built on the blood of the black