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Final Speech Choir Script

IV - 5 Speech Choir

COME AND HOPE WITH ME
By Mongane Wally Serote

In that day and in that life
We lived in dreams and also in desire
We hoped and believed
Even when the stern sky hovered above us
And the day crushed and popped our time
Turning the sky // crimson // and the night cast upon us dark and cold shadows
We lived in dreams and hopes
Dreams and hopes!
Hopes and dreams!
Dreams and hopes!
Dreams and hopes (5x fading)

Strong
We sang
Chanted
Jumped and danced
And we were aware of the steep and slope of the road
And of the load on our shoulders
We lived in dreams and desire
Loving life with our large hearts
Even though nostalgia
*beats*
Even though nostalgia // like fire
Burnt // and burnt // and burnt // and burnt our gut //
All these
We mounted, jumped and chanted
Our eyes fixed only on the road

— SONG —

The screams of the women
The howls of the weak
The cries of the children
Who can hardly speak
We hear the sorrow
And the pain
Voices entangled in chains

— SONG —

Remember
The passion of our hearts
Remember
The blinding ache and pain
Remember
When we heard the hysterical sobs
Of our children crying against fate
Which violated them and offered them no life //
Or the frightening cry of a man
Who climbs life with no hope in his heart //
We heard. // We knew them. // We absorbed them. //
We heard, knew, absorbed.
And we surge, surge, surge, surge!

— SONG —

And we shall dream of the time
When the storms will calm and the sun will shine
We’ll bring back our golden sky
So let’s live life with our heads held high

— SONG —

Knowing…
Knowing that life is (life is a promise) a promise
And that promise is us //
The promise lives in the staring eye of a song.

We live.
We believe.
We hope.

Come and Hope with me
By Mongane Wally Serote