What is the name of the Langston Hughes poem at the end of the movie "In My Country"?

Question

There is a Voice over which ends saying "no regrets . . . though the return be never.”

Answer 1

found this posted on the IMDB message board for this film. It was agreed that this is the correct poem.


The poem is by Antjie Krog herself, and is included in "Country of my skull" (the book), toward the end.

"
because of you
this country no longer lies
between us but within

it breathes becalmed
after being wounded
in its wondrous throat

in the cradle of my skull
it sings, it ignites
my tongue, my inner eaer, the cavity of heart
shudders toward the outline
new in soft intimate clicks and gutturals

of my soul the retina learns to expand
daily because by a thousand stories
I was scorched

I am changed forever, I want to say:
forgive me
forgive me
forgive me

You who I have wronged, please
take

with you