The Wanderer and His Fire-Wood
i have taken this hunting
escapade to the rarest of forests
even to fourth road junction
near the red-carpet streams
where sages of the clan told
the hunch-backed crocodile dwells -
i have come across the famous
thorny paths across ntembe river
near the ancient torn huts
where the old weird nnakoroche
dwelt before the world went
to the first of the two wars -
is it only squirrels that find
access to the hunter's bag?
is it only monkeys that jumped
across the trees that brim
the forests of these natives?
i have also stumbled near
the hidden treasury of the moon
with night angels eavesdropping
and tracing my footsteps -
& heavy droplets of tears
like some drumming rain-droplets
followed the wanderer's
steps across the crisscrossing
of lands, rivers, seas & mounts
but the fire-wood refused
to be gathered & taken home
Copyright © Canny Amah | Year Posted 2012
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