I thought about you this morning

I thought about you this morning
I thought about you yesterday
I’m thinking about you right now.
Last night when I was about to sleep
Your light and your darkness, your earth and your skies merged in my chest.
Later, as I drifted into deep, dreamless sleep,
Your wisdom, your follies, your tears and your laughs entered me
Silently through the holes in my limbs.
This morning, while I was awake and sitting at breakfast
I saw your face that was trying to smile in the middle of bitter sobs.
The sun was setting on your right face and the moon was rising on your left.
Your left eye was wide open but you could only see with the right one that was tightly shut.
Africa;
I thought about you this morning
I thought about you yesterday
I’m thinking about you right now.
There are moments when I calm my mind, sit silently, empty, naked and unborn.
Then you disappear, me and my stories disappear, my old fears, my thoughts, my imaginations disappear. I become you and you become me…
After a while, however, things return. Stories return. My fear of tomorrow and my resentment of yesterday return. The fight with life reigns supreme. You become no longer part of me. The word SEPARATION is written in bold letters. You stand tall, aloof, proud and wounded and your wings bleed the forgotten milk of my ancestors. I look so small, troubled and feeble. Your children stand on the verge of hatred and bark at your bare bones. Your sons and daughters wake up into their misery and start feeding on the flesh of your moons. The carcass of your suns and stars litters the peace of your woods. Your waters suffer from ignorance.
Silence returns to me months and years later. Madness returns with fire and nakedness. Your own prophecy sung in the mouth of your songbirds, arrives.
Your children rise from their own nightmares. They walk hand in hand facing the arrow of light. They smile and in their smiles, there is tenderness. In their smiles, there are pieces of moons. Your bulls, your hyenas, your cows and your tigers sing and dance at a dinner party together. Your galaxies proclaim the power of love. Your days and your nights surrender to beauty.

Africa;
I thought about you this morning
I thought about you yesterday
I’m thinking about you right now.