ClusterHeadaches Africa

Clouds bully their way across the sky

Dark and grey the challenge

Heavy looms the moisten smell

Battle raging balance 

Light so blinding bright flash by

Blade sinks deep in fleshy billow

The wound a gaping tear

Weeping like a willow 

Down to earth the tears do run

It's fall on solid ground

Thirstily to drain away

Where new life's to be found 

Now as the rainbow lifts her head

Sleep falling from her eyes

Her vision is the smiling sun

With colour bright the skies 

We never think the day will come

That happiness is true

But after every stormy cloud

The rainbow whispers through

I stare down the precipice, looking at my own reflection

Mirrored moonlight in the mist

I pass me by… with no intention

I hear my own voice call, echo’s as it drifts…

Resound off hollow floor then wall

where tears like water drip

Vast caverns of emotions, my heart a drooping Dhali clock

Despite my best intentions

waves break against the rock

Fog-cloaked dampen haze, the footpath now but gone

While cloying tendrils in this daze

pull me toward that sad, sad song

I do not want to shout, I do not want to scream

I just want to be lost

in this… my constant dream

The pain that ripped my brain apart…

It’s done, it’s gone…

only its shadow now lingers on

This weary mist won’t lift; it would not let me be

I am not blind…

yet still… I cannot see

Colour my emotions,
tinted nuances smoked with grey
Letters forming words
but...
there's nothing I can say
Pale dawn of feelings,
touched with subtle loss
Where did I leave tomorrow...
and the tag of cost?
Passion turned to silence,
solace I don't find
It's a crying shame,
passing lovers gliding
in glades of silken mist
never to know
or
call you by your name...

Syllables swollen on the tongue

A phallus of excretions that cannot be undone

Sounds swim sluggish through cloying air

To reverberate anvils hidden in skulls and hair

The vernacular limp with impotence

Only timbre climax in cosmic resonance

Ears see what escapes the eye

Livid colours flood the cerebral sky

Syntax caress neurons with carnal delight

Images explode… senses in darkness… now light 

Tendrils resound through ravenous caverns

Incantations echo about naked liaisons

To ravish those ruins of sobriety

That hushes the brazen ardour of society

Corruption tears, spewing sordid decay

With gusto and zest over flaccid lips in dismay

Savagely it rips our world apart

Our eyes fly open with a defiant start

Ears listen to hear the voice of the mind

Then heard… and listened… to its own kind

Africa… O, Mother Land

Break of dawn…dewdrops gives birth to perfect form

Then balance on the precipice

Of every grassy knoll, fold and leafy bend

A girl is born, one single life

A beginning not an end. 

Africa… O, Savage Land

Grabs then holds one single life

to breathe your scorching air

Dusty winds blow to and fro

While beetle song on heat wave grow

This girl is strong, a lion cub

Her destiny has just begun. 

Africa… O, Land of Beauty

Tears your daylight tongue will lick

after stormy clouds drift by

Hope… a rainbow to fill your blood stained sky

As the old day lay down to die

The girl will become a woman one day

Africa’s voice, in her heart, will stay.

I am Woman. . .
Moulded from mans rib, I came to being
Intrinsically divine, so closely from his heart
Mystical my unity from living bone
Dust no participant in my advent
My light to earth a Heaven send

I am Woman. . .
Bound by blood to Mother Earth
My sacrifice a tidal flow, a womb of fruitful bearing
New life from luscious garden grow
Mists of precious scent my trail
A knowing smile beneath my veil

I am Woman. . .
Shrouded in mystery, the secret that I be
Men vying to unlock, this hidden passage, for all time
The angels sing hosannas, the devil grind his stone
Girls will grow to womanhood, enigmas you will see
The words "I am Woman" resound through history.