What Happened To The World Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

This shrinking of the world,
That makes me touch the hearts
I longed to bless and did not know
How to reach, even when I asked
Migratory birds to walk for me,
In the march of the penguins,
that have suddenly popped up on my
Doorstep. I breathe and people
Far away hear my helpless sighs.
Thank God the bad ones are not
On my doorstep to ask if I stole
A boyfriend on cyberspace for that
Would be pretty bad.

Stories go round of people unhappy,
But I am still in awe for I feel
So close to those who come to see
Me, in the small window where we play
Throw and catch; in the space where
Every word we write can speak volumes
To those who listen. Our eyes are
Glued to screens, and together like
Deer we graze and walk on the same
Prairie lands.

What has brought you and me,
To look at each other eye ball
To eye ball and not wink even
Once? For now, I know our destinies were
Meant to collide and cause the earth
To cry, for our words know pain. How
Lucky we are to be able to break it
Before it breaks us up. For those
Who are jealous do exist on these
Prairie plains we have discovered

Let us graze and chew the cud
Lying down, in our kraal where,
The manure rich will bring out
Green and more for us to eat.
For this journey never ends.
In this cycle of grass we eat
As we lie down, with our horns
In the air, waiting to hear the
Next news we can write about. For
now we are the voice and nerves of our
World. Those with a falsetto must
get into the chorus for your soprano
Long lost the smoothness of a voice.
Like when mine broke I developed
A false one just far from the
Tenor of Luciano Pavarotii.