24/06/2024
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THE SONG OF EXILES IN THE SERENGETI
(Dedicated to resilient rangers and workers of the Serengeti and safari in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa for protecting the African geography and ecology with their lives.)
Oh! It’s time!
It’s time to listen gingerly
To the flat chant of the plains
Where Africans became Africans – the Maasai,
Where birds learn to unlearn their songs,
Where flamingos learnt to migrate,
And amber through the places their daughters would go,
Where the rhizoids of mosses miss the
Nimble actions on the plains,
Where poachers and rangers hide and seek in plant labyrinths
Laced with thistles and
Savanna swords in the arms of trees as thorns.
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
It’s time to listen gingerly
To the
Whispers and hums of
Extinct floras and faunas
Faintly crooned by the
Testimony of fossils here,
The elegy of dinosaurs.
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
It’s a time to listen gingerly
To God sighing intricacy into mangroves
To boy lions knitting soft roars through thickets,
Grasslands and woodlands in half un-governance
Afore exiling lonely lions as homecoming sons.
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
It’s a time to listen gingerly to a
Lion’s roar and the tenet of these plains on tip kopje
Kiting their kids where the rill oozes.
She owns the tombs of herbivore
Shared in the stomach of fierce felines,
The famous death twirls of Nile crocks studying
The anatomy of wildebeest with claws and canines,
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
It’s a time to listen gingerly
To paraphernalia of death;
The rhythms of stealth and sinusoidal murder
To Leopards, hyenas, cheetahs,
Mambas and Cape buffalos
And lions exiling sons.
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
It’s a time to listen gingerly
To the resurrection of an illustrious song
Chanted
In rabbit-warrens
In mongoose labyrinths
In swamps of wading shoebills
And
In clumps of mosses.
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
It’s a time to listen gingerly
To the cry of baby death
Below the horns of cape buffalos
Below the horns of rhinos
In the or***ce of female Nile crocks
In the pancreas of eyries
In the mires of baleeneceps
And
In the dens of sons.
But why!
Why were lonely kings exiled by homecoming sons?
Author: Awogbemila Temitope Ayodeji
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