The ants are filing past the dead wood
Looking for food
The housefly hovers around anything to see if he can get something
To fill his stomach, anything
The tsetse-fly seductively flies around beautiful flowers,
Inhaling to smell if she can have some nectar to give her some wingy-powers
The bird hovers around edible foods and fruits
Hoping to get her daily bread while looking out for brutes
The horse uses his strength to work to impress
In order to be fed and caressed
The monkey jumps from tree to tree,
Hoping to feed and be free
The cow knows that she and her family are being fed
To occasionally join in death’s bed
So Live and let me live!
Laugh and let me laugh!
And when it is time, die and let me die!
We are the tree branches
That live close but have different roots and leaves
We are long necked-giraffes
Always being on the lookout for each other from different grounds
Once they know their boundaries
They must just agree to disagree
So live and let me live!
Laugh and let me laugh!
And when it is time, die and let me die!
Because we are nature’s already made enemies
And the chiming of the clock will never change that
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2013.
Mum Cee 