Just look at her

Just look at her

our Caster Semenya

who faced a testing time

in a world insensitive 

to anything unlike

 

Just look at her

amidst a doping scandal

our BRICS partner

in strong denial

(a fine example to the youth)

 

(are they swimming in it

her decrier reckoning

there is no other way

to do it)

 

(perchance it was

the pharmaceuticals

speaking their mind)

 

Our Caster could gloat

what with her detractor

a gold medalist

herself now facing 

a testing time

 

Thankfully we have

a strong constitution

(the country comes first

all folks being equal

though some seem more)

 

Thankfully we have

Ubuntu and all that

we forgive and forget

(for apartheid allies

we have a Sports Hall of Fame)

 

Just look at her now

 

Caster ‘cheated’ out of gold and ‘Alarmed’ Coe seeks doping answers from Russia (Cape Times, November 10 2015), and Coe hardly trying to prove athletics is safe in his hands (Argus, November 11 2015). The ‘just look at her’ remark is Semenya’s disparager’s.

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