Get Your Premium Membership

To the World Leaders

Hope is our mother. That nurturing warm woman. She is a flow of living waters over a dessert land. Refreshing your soul, outpouring life. Intoxicating your reality, birthing you into the promise land. We are unnourished children thirsty for milk, desperate for just a drop. With the leaders carrying our nutriments in trunks and trucks, We trust that the scolding from our mother has beaten out all the greed that lingers, the virus that spreads and sucks all made promises, we believe you will serve us well from the menu. We choose and hope in you.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 1/25/2021 3:28:00 PM
Hello, Nobuntu. I don't read a lot of free verse but fortunately happened on this poem, a master stroke. Your combination of imagery and feeling is powerful. "... flow of living waters over a desert land ..." is just inspired. All the best.
Login to Reply
Ntobela Avatar
Nobuntu Ntobela
Date: 4/24/2021 11:25:00 AM
Thank you
Date: 7/28/2020 1:12:00 PM
Never forget, "God helps those who help themselves!" One can hope all you like, but if God has taken another day off, it is the same as expecting government to come to your rescue. But, like the William Tell Overture, your poem is great! Aloha! Rico
Login to Reply
Ntobela Avatar
Nobuntu Ntobela
Date: 8/6/2020 1:04:00 PM
yes He does, which always makes me wonder about ''free will'' thank you

Book: Reflection on the Important Things