Ingrid de Kok's "Some there be" and the murder of Steven Bantu Biko

Ingrid de Kok's collection of Poems Terrestrial Things about the Truth and Reconciliation hearings reads even more powerfully after watching a few videos of the hearings.

Some there be

There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their 

praises might be reported. And some there be,which have no

memorial, who are perished as though they had never been; and are 

become as though they had never been born; and their children after

them.'  APOCRYPHA

Only the rustle of reeds
thin pipe smoke
a flickering paraffin lamp
women in blankets bent over
their faces lost to the light.

And remnants:
gate without hinges
stones in a half circle
afterbirths buried in silt.

Can the forgotten
be born again
into a land of names?

This video describes the murder of Steven Bantu Biko, one of the victims who "left a name behind".