AFRICAN DESTINY
It’s like offering a rabid dog a biscuit
Somehow, I don’t think I shall risk it
It might be time to make a hasty exit
Why show sympathy for wild animals
I’ve heard that some can be cannibals
So, I will make a strategic withdrawal
Who’d have thought I’d meet a hyena
My partner’s missing, I’ve not seen her
And in my search, I couldn’t be keener
Out here in the bush it can’t be worse
Fearing some infection without a nurse
But now it’s late, getting near nightfall
We drove way out here without a guide
Air conditioned jeep and so hot outside
Yet the Serengeti stretches far and wide
No phone signal and we are out of fuel
To be stranded like this could be cruel
So unlikely to be any hope of help at all
But she insisted back there, was a shack
And was perhaps just a mile or so, back
I said she must always keep on this track
I stayed just in case another car came by
But then followed her, I don’t know why
No-one in view, nor any reply to my call
I guess both of us are now lost and alone
And still with no reception on my phone
We’ll both be found, gnawed to the bone
Especially now more hyenas surround me
Hearing them laugh at my own stupidity
I ran and then fell, now I can only crawl