Africa-The-Mermaid-Princess [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Africa is depressing says Alet - sadness in
her eyes - well, yes - but Africa is beautiful,
a sleeping mermaid without a soul who can
only get one when doing an unselfish deed
like sacrificing a privilege; Nelson Mandela
sacrificed his life on Robben Island and thus
Africa obtained a soul, but then an Evil Fairy
slighted during Africa-the-Mermaid-Princess'
christening, put a curse on her

When Africa entered capitalistic free-market
democracy a Chinese dragon burst forth and
burnt her mermaid-tail; a Russian bear took a
bite out of her wings; this Mermaid had wings
even before she got a soul - and Arabs came
with swords in scabbards, suicidal firebombs
and cocktails-Molotov nearly destroying the
flying African-Mermaid-Princess - but she
only fell into a hundred-year sleep

Now Africa is waiting for a Prince to fight his
way through the thorns of proliferating Congo
wars covering the sleeping African-Mermaid
Princess' continent - to kiss her back to life,
then Africa's frozen-Arab-spring with eternal
cherry-blossom-sleep, shall resume and we
will become a flying Mermaid-Princess-with
a-Soul bursting into bloom, entering a most
exotic summer here on Planet Earth!

[1 October 2014]