Africa: Retelling the Story...

What if there was no love in me for you Africa...?

I shrug, I will not think of it...

I wonder which other songs are left for me to sing

I wonder what can give me much joy for a better future

And I thank God for this gift, for Africa, for the world

For the opportunity to tell how I feel about Gods perfect Nature

And what it means to me... my beautiful inspiration!

1.

Each time I wake from my slumber I see your beauty

I still see heart warming smiles and people around me

And the sweet torture of their warmth joyfully burns my heart

It feels so good to be part of it all, part of a blessed world

Imagine sleeping in the open air at the spying of the Wild dogs

Imagine running up the hills to fright the Lions with the Masai

Or to dance with the mischievous apes of the Savannah

And drink the sweet and fresh Mqobothi beer with the Zulu

2.

There is some warmth even in remembering you

In bearing your thoughts and dreams...

In my hopeful traveling of the lengths

And breadths of your landscape

Through ponds, forests, hills, vales, towns and hamlets

And my encounters with the good and the bad and the ugliest,

The wild, the tamed, the birds and the beasts...

The sweet romance of adventure itself

And my undying quest for knowledge...

3.

Sometimes I am like the Wild myself

And the Waterfalls and Ponds my fine siblings

What of the streams with reeds all over the surface

That conceals the dreaded Alligators in their element?

What of the python with her thousands of camouflage spots

Swimming in the deep rivers of the Niger and Orange?

What of the spotted Hyena with her ferocious eyes

And large head full of tattoos and curly hairs?

What of the songs from the thousands of forests dwellers

Who knew no other men, deity, world or hope?

What of many, many things I might not remember to remember

Just what of ...

And what of me with everything strange about me

Writing, musing away to the tunes Nature gave me?

Knowing so well I belonged to a community, entertaining ourselves

Living together for life is for the living...

I am sorely in love, with you Africa

Faith, Believe and Positivity.

Do you have the 'I can' attitude? Do you think being positive helps the human psychology towards being a success? Huge trees get terrorised when they see a woodpecker and all those hot tough-looking chilli fruits fear some little pepper weevils. In any hard time, can we just try to overlook the circumstances that prevail and believe that it will be well? There are things you can do so as to get the problems solved. Faith! Faith it is. Having faith is like lighting a stove with a wet match box and with just a match stick left! Eagles are great birds, they make nests in the most secluded and risky places, they can chose to live anywhere they wish to without fear. Other birds fly with their wings the Eagle soars with the wind! Also, consider those pepper weevils which enjoy eating something that we humans dare not put trifle with! Faith is a foundation to a building which if it's well stocked would hold the house for many years. Faith is stronger than reason. Set aside emotions, reasons, philosophies and the past and just believe. Faith can take people to higher places. It can open doors for one. Climbing a highly peaked mountain takes time and energy but what drives us to continue climbing? Have faith and believe without yet seeing, and you will see something called change.