Africa
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Africa
Africa
Land of mystery
Magical land
The last continent
Cape Town
The end of the world
With names like Zimbabwe
Botswana
The Ivory Coast
Egypt, for God’s sake
Not to mention Cameroon
Ethiopia
The Congo
Tunisia
Words that roll off the tongue
Words that make me want to go
Just so that I can say
“I went to Mozambique”
Africa
She calls me back
I’m here
She’s there
I brought a piece of her home
I left a piece of me there
She wakes this morning in the mist
Another day in poverty
Another day in clouds
Another day in her riches
In her diamond mines
In her human stink
In her magnificence
I in my bathrobe
Her in her nakedness
Petals of Africa
Left scattered on my pillow
