In Another Time
Clicked did my camera on a Myena eagerly feeding its young one.
Fascinated, my heart pulsed warmly on this nature’s wonderful creation,
I turned back in muse but my smile was wiped with a sight so scary;
A young black girl struggled with a dagger stuck in bosom, dress torn apart.
Paralysed I stood gathering my wits, knowing not I was part of a time unknown.
She pointed to a small track voicing out some words incoherent and collapsed.
Disoriented I followed the track shown, some steps ahead I found
An infant lying in the bush, inert and naked; carefully cradle it, I did.
A moan I heard, loud and agonised, I tread back the path dumbfounded.
The girl’s hands flayed out desperately and her face softened in a smile.
I handed her the baby, she sat ignoring her stab to hold it to her bosom.
To a slap, I woke up finding myself on the grass, my camera at some distance.
I stood with caution and looked around in a maze, the trees stood alert.
I slept a deep sleep that night, dreamt of a happy black girl, baby in arms.
She said “Thank you” with eyes glowing and vanished in the heather.
A picture that came out from my camera looked quite weird,
By the two birds, there was a shadow, a column of smoke it seemed!
17/07/16
Contest. In another time
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