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Beaten Footpaths Of Savannah

Beaten footpaths of Savannah

A.B. Mwalwanda May,2012

These familiar tracks with known origins and ends

Carry such palpable fate as the hangman's rope

Its noose awaits the condemned man's neck.



These beaten earth tracks

Run long or short on this rugged Savannah!

Criss-crossing in a labyrinth of human and animal pursuits



Beaten tracks trodden down by generations.

Zigzagging the landscape,

Evading deep valleys, high mountains and thickets.

Here and there stopped short by pregnant rivers for the

Weary sojourners to quench thirst and wash-off their dirt.



Oh! Patient yet beaten tracks

Witness to too many who march on your back,

Those soliloquising whilst on the move

Conspirators footing along your pavement.



It is lucid now, this is an endless pursuit

That as I tread through one of these now,

Imprinting my footprints on it, superimposing onto others before me

That their mark soon is rubbed off by wind or the next passes by!

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