Symphony Of Life Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

Symphony of life

The star of the show, the sun, fell off the edge of the cliff of the earth.
The disc of the disco of this show, the moon, now showing off like a star among stars.
The blood moon giving haughty silent treatment to stars, outshining distant suns, themselves sons and cousins of the retired tired sun.

The lion, tired of murder and cannibalism and its fearful baritone discordant intonation silenced, sated, sleeping tonight.
A placid river pregnant with spawning fish, and submarine carnivores tired of the day's death roll, flows to the music of nocturnal birds on its banks
Hyenas laughing at their own jokes, staving off the gnawing hunger in their bellies, regurgitating the same tasteless jokes to the cacophony of their own laughter.

A lone tree stands guard at the bank of the river
Having withstood elephants stripping it of its juicy bark
Thirsty giraffes nibbling at its green covering
Monkeys making short shrift of its monkey nuts and eagles clearing it of all its crawling inhabitants.
It now stood stoic imploring the blood moon to light the way for an innocent impala and its young calf.
The respectful calf standing guard to let her mother have her fill first
Keeping her youthful eye both on the forest verge and on the waters edge.

The blood moon watching the whole scene, held in place by the tree by the river. The river the life giver
The blood moon, avoiding bloodshed by standing in for the sun, whose tour of duty and round of applause of the music of the spheres is seen and heard throughout the Milky Way.

In the chests of the thirsty impala and its calf, hearts beating to the symphony of life.

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