Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
— Emily Dickinson
In 1966, he stabbed Verwoerd,
the "architect of apartheid,” to death.
Crediting Jesus’ words in Matthew 10:
34,* he sought salvation, not in peace,
but in assassination’s sharp solution—
and, in a cruel judgment, drew life.
The ANC did not release him after
finagling its path to power;
he died in gaol, and so the circuit
closed, too bright for his infirm
delight, who’d trimmed the truth
down to the slanting of a knife.
I wasn’t surprised. Were you?
Some things we always knew.
*Matthew 10:34 (KJV): “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
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