The Colour of Time - Part 4

 

Ever since she was a young girl Dora had been searching for the colour of time after she had read about it in a book her parents gave her after they came back from a long voyage to the City of Earth.

Her father always told her he got that little book from a mysterious booksmith who forged it in his forge near the Great City Wall not far from one of the gates to the city at the end of one bridge over the River Why.

But Dora never ever found that booksmith's forge on one of her many, many visits to the City of Earth, before she was banned and the guards refused her the entrance through the gates. On that painful day she found out that time did not have the colour Rose.

'Good night, Anchor,' Bromford, the bard, shouted loud across the three or four houses or farms of the remote hamlet that was even smaller than a town or a village before he sang another song as an encore.

'Looks like this is our United Kingdom tour for this year,' the llama remarked and tried clapping in rhythm.

"Bromford Melodies"

I fell in love
With the beauty of
Mother nature's gift to great South Africa

But it struck me when
I saw those black men
Live township life in Bromford East Pretoria

Remains of an unfair system, it was not supposed to last
Black page in the book of stories of the white man's past

We, Dutch white punks
Built up our gear
Hey, we made a difference, rock, rock, rock a black high school!

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Bromford Melodies

We drove into
Another world and I
Could only stare at clouds from burning trash filling the air

And I felt like
A silly tourist on
A cheap trip into other people's daily misery

But I met cool blacks and whites telling me they really try
To fight against their prejudice, look each other in the eye

We, Dutch white punks
Built up our gear
Hey, we made a difference, rock, rock, rock a black high school!

1 for the shine that glows on your face
2 for the melenin that and origins trace
3 for the colour of all melodies face
Trinity for all my equal people takes over the space

Coz siyaphanda, siyakhanda sihloksa amakhanda
Ngoba sthanda sanda ngukfakeli sandla
Manje ngiyawanda phakathi kwabo ubani ozong thanda
Angsiza amandla sibe inkosi nabo ngok thanda
Ngoba sithule tu vele mele skhulume toe
Ksele kuwe ukuthi uzbone uzkhulule ku-lula
Vula amasango sicu-le
Mbhube kuze kube kude
Qhude biza ilanga sibemunye
Sebenze kabunye ngoba thina sithunwe
Kunye angakusho akzokwenza kune
Hlanyisa umoya futhi sizokwenzu thuke
Thuka ngenjabulo uzbone uphuka khula sula
Loko okzok hlula phuma
Sibe ilabantu bamanje sibonisane kukanje
Ngama langa langa phantsi manzi
Sthelele sibe ila abantu bezimbhali khali mali masngahlali sthathis' skhali
Singalali sisvikele kwez ngacaci kamiliko yamelodi Bromford for u let us
Shine like what!

Ek sal nooit vergeet, die fantastiese tijd
Bromford Melodies
En ik sal onthou, hou hulle saam aan more bou
Bromford Melodies

Today is Thursday, the 4th of December 2025.