Rotten Fruitlet

Fruitlet is dangling on branches of trees. Trees’ branches bearing leaves. Leaves, green, yellow or brown dwindling. Dwindling due to vicious strong winds raging. At the tree’s foot, rotten leaves and fruit snooze. Leaves snoozing dead fertilize the earth. Earth to receive falling fruit to break. To break and deliver her stone alive. Alive, stone will sprout and feed on dead meadow. Dead meadow grass will fodder fruitlet’s stone. Stone to spring young from rotten ovary; Ovary’s filth to produce a clean shrub. Shrub, cruel humans will chopper. Chopper to assassinate mother trees. Mother trees who are the ecosystem. Ecosystem agonizing human’s vicious attitudes; Vicious attitudes of us hominids shatter the lot. Poem by Ndabuli Mugisho