Adt And Neighbourhood-Watch Barge Into A House In Lodeyko In Springs Poem by Gert Strydom

On 22 May 2019 two black men with rifles in their hands
jumped over the bladed-wire fence and entered the property.
When I confronted them at the front door they were impudent and insolent
and I saw some more men and on a brain wave slammed the door shut,
locked it and hurried to the back door.
They barged into the house and I found them in the kitchen
and my mother of 85 was busy preparing food and totally dumbstruck.
I summarised the situation and she asked: "What now, my child? "
My drilled-in military training wanted to take over.
There were four men. One man obstructed the backdoor with a rifle,
one a white-man had a baseball-bat and one without a weapon and I was astonished
as one with a weapon at the ready stopped me in the kitchen.
After a break-in down in the street in violation of the law they entered the house,
and without anyone entering the yard they brought this trouble to me.

[Poet's note: ADT here do refer to armed reaction from ADT security using rifles and Kevlar.]
© Gert Strydom