Blue Planet Poem by Nereva Notswa

Blue planet

The heron is waiting
for tasty beak-size baby turtle.
Fox eats rabbit.
Eagle eats kite.
Sea-lion eats penguin.
Penguin eats fish.

And what eats humans?

Not cannibals and worms,
Scavengers like vultures and jackals.

But, have I not been scoffed by Sorrow,
licked by Lust,
eat by Anger,
gorged by Greed,
wolfed by recklessness,
chewed by Envy,
munched by Malice
and bolted by Treachery?

Just as a killerwhale swims up to the sea-lion pup,
snatches it by surprise, then tosses it up playfully
before swallowing it,
so Joy toys with me before ingesting me.
Then there is Self-control nibbling,
Steadfastness feasting
and Generosity savouring me.
Justice would absorb me.
Truth relishes,
and Goodness has a go
at gobbling up the remains.

Unique among creatures
I can choose
To feed the felon demons
Or nourish the Gods.
The choicest morsel: Immortality






February 2002