THE NEW RAINBOW (including audiolink)

by craig lock

A "moving" tale of the many people in the rainbow nation of New South Africans.

SEA AND SAND

Sea and sand

My love

My land,

God bless Africa

Sea and sand

My love

My land,

God bless Africa

But more the South of Africa

Where we live...

Bless the angry mountains

And the smiling hills

Where the cool water spills

To heal the earth's brow

Bless the children of South Africa

The white children

And the black children

But more the black children

Who lost the sea and sand

That they may not lose love

For white children

Whose fathers raped the land...

Sea and sand

My love

My land,

God bless Africa

Many sunsets

Gold and crimson

Have dripped on the horizon,

Weeping for the dying day.

Many dawns

Have risen

In timely resurrection

From their cradles of light.

Sunsets and dawns

Dawns and sunsets.

I have seen them all

But when,

Oh when will I see that day

When love will walk the common way

To heal my wounded people

And break the shackles around their hearts?

- Don Mattera

"Like Alan Paton, Craig Lock reaches to the heart of his beloved country. In his new novel, Lock, perceptively and with understanding of the historical elements, writes of the situation as it was, as it is, and as perhaps one day it will be, in the New South Africa."

- Minerva P (UK Jan1995)