The Spirit Of The Times Poem by Gert Strydom

He made them heroes
who was forced
to take on brigades of the enemy
who were armed with a multitude
of tanks and armoured cars
and turned them into death and rubble

and later did declare them to terrorists,
made them unemployed,
tried to impoverish them

and then he made the attackers of farms,
the ones that placed landmines, the bank robbers,
the so called freedom fighters,
who burned down schools, the planters of bombs
heroes and rulers.