First published in Literary Yard, May 7, 2023

When I was small
at an age unknown,
someone told me that
in South Africa,
angels were black,
not white.

In South Africa,
they had apartheid as the racial segregation system based on colour
where black people were not allowed to share facilities with white people.
(The real apartheid was more complex, though.)

The white minority controlled the larger black majority.
Black people were even deprived of basic human rights.
That’s the reason, I was taught, why angels were black over there . . .

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