Serengeti plains are in my dreaming

Searing sun an ochre orb of rueful

Lion eyes awake to find me smiling

Singing tales of sorrow.

Jackals gather round a pool of lilies

Laughing at the thought of new beginning

Riding on a powdered horn of rhino

selling their tomorrows.

Running with an impi through the tundra

Single file and loping chanting meekly

Creep up on the enemy at dawn's light

Snuffing out their totem.

Baring teeth and snarling at the moonlight

Daring ancestors to claim this victory

Safety in the sympathy of numbers

Listening to bird song.

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