AFRICAN DESTINY

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