ONE OF THE LIGHTS IN MY HEART

“We're born with millions

Of little lights shining in the dark

And they show us the way

One lights up, every time you feel love in your heart

One dies when it moves away … “

 

- Passenger, All The Little Lights

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxVxox--Io

ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS - PASSENGER

 

Last night I went to Africa

deep within the Mara Triangle

smouldering sunset deep-set escarpment

steeped in mysterious threats entangled

my thoughts were warm and drowsily secure

I found myself beneath the trees

cradled by the earthen curvature

like a hammock my body began to sway

took up the dance of when we were free

those schoolgirl friendships and memories

the stories told in Swahili

we pronounced Kenya Keenya

we still do so does the Queen

I guess because our parents did

in the absence of any inbetween

I remember how the English school children laughed

listening to my pronunciation

they would fall about tears rolling down

their cheeks unchecked not meaning any cruel intention

my best friend came from Nairobi

where she still lives and works

she is a cartographer very brilliant

I admire her always and her endearing quirks

at boarding school she was very serious

I on the other hand was very silly (big surprise, huh! ; 0)

I looked up to her like she was my big sister

she often told me I was a silly billy

I got into many scrapes

I was a tomboy and quite fearless you see

I would climb and graze my knees

trying to climb to the top of a tree

once I fell out and landed with a bump

knocked the wind right out of me

but it did not stop me from trying to conquer

that old and much-loved Acacia tree

I hear the sweet flute sound of the longest-knecked giraffes

and the trumpet of a rhinocerous

I awake to find myself in England

with all my cats beside me making a loveable fuss : 0)

 

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This is dedicated to a special person for whom several lights went out all of a sudden. She brings light to so many and I want her to know that I am shining a light for her now. I pray the darkness will not last long and many lights will be lit for her and lead her through to a safe haven where one day given time the light within her will once again burn brightly xxxxx

 

 

 

Done