Collapse of Great Mountains In Africa
I had a dream last night
a disturbing dream it was
I saw in clear vision something
Mountains of Kilimanjaro
Kenya, Elgon, Ruwenzori
and Atlas, Adamawa, all mountains
in the African continent
collapse into the Pacific Ocean
The living Dead tried to stop them
Militaries tried to stop them
Peoples of Africa tried to stop them
but the highlands went into the Ocean
without trace, with enough warning,
Seven hundred seventy seven years,
of slow but active disappearance
I inquired, “what about Drakensberg”?
“Listen. That one collapsed….!
a long time ago… in the Atlantic!”
And I woke up, but not in my bed!
Copyright © Solomon Ochwo-Oburu | Year Posted 2017
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