His daddy don’t
Live here anymore
Says a mother soliciting
Some money for bread
Down Lansdowne Road
On Youth Day
On Youth Day
June 16
Soweto Day
Refashioned
To fit
His daddy don’t
Live here anymore
The little one scurrying
Ahead of his mom
Probably embarrassed
At her skarrelling
At her skarrelling
On Youth Day
Whilst others
Celebrate
Even commemorate
Even commemorate
And honour those
Gone before
Trampling the path
On June 16 1976
His daddy don’t
Live here anymore
Seems a constant
Refrain
On Youth Day
June 16
Soweto Day
Lest we forget
To remember
June 16 2015 it is,
in the locality.