(--I have walked that long road to freedom-NM)

While there are great men while there are heroes while there are poets who sing their praises there is only one Nelson Mandela alone in his cellular universe his figure in the apex of heaven singular and stately and statuesque it is said that a prisoner can rise the wretched barricades of apartheid cast off from the world off of his ankle all misery is left in its trenches none hear of war, horror, hatred, or ache but once born everybody is equal and by peace the most sacred of forces acknowledged and ennobled in its source