Clamours the lebensraum
Of open plains of Serengeti.
Struggling within
Somewhere in my subconscious,
The African gene
asserts its Identity and
claims my Ancestry.
I search my core
For vestiges…
Of The Prehistoric Mother
Whose tools and traits trail
The gray volcanic tuff
At Oldupai and Laetoli.
Amidst bushes of sisal
Impregnating the barren savannas
Clues, pieces of a gigantic jigsaw:
Impregnating the barren savannas
Clues, pieces of a gigantic jigsaw:
Stones and bones
Fossils and footsteps
Buried under layers of
Dust and Time -
Hold the key
That’ll set me free!
Note: Oldupai Gorge and Laetoli are prehistoric sites in Serengeti, the heartland of African savannas.
beautiful and true Africa lover:)
ReplyDelete-- Admiral (retd) Manohar Awati sent me these comments by e-mail.
ReplyDelete"Evocative, endearing and effervescent ! The nicest poem I have read on Africa. The Olduvai female ancestor, named Lucy by an unimaginative excavator, of all of us will be happy in her African Heaven. Keep writing. You may yet write a new chapter in the relations between India and Africa, the oldest continuous civilisation on earth and the progenitor place of Homo Sapien Sapien."