Ons en Ek

Ons en Ek

This poem starts with a known prayer asking God to bless the food in front of "US" at dinner. But she asks if she is included in the terms "us" for she feels that her voice is not heard by her family.

The poem suggests two parties: the artist herself and her Afrikaner family ("Ons").   She introduces the opposition of what she describes her family and dinner setting as.

If the family is the traditional Afrikaner family. She describes herself as the challenge.

If the family is the acceptance of the patriarchal system, she is the rebel.

If "ons" is a perfect table setting and table etiquette, she is the skew tablecloth, the wrong placement, the bent fork and a bomb waiting to explode.

She ends in prayer asking to bless the food not in front of her family but in front of her. Implying that she accepts that she is not part of the term "ons" and that it might be for the better.