The sky is cracked

The stars are not hiding

And the Earth suffers it all.

The moon shrivels to a sickle

I’ve been nibbling it every night

Now the constellations are my clock.

All the trees dry their clothes

Only the fig tree shares its shade

My garden has grown into a desert.

Heaven has sailed far from me

My Earth is sinking like a boat

Wind lifts dust to the mountaintop.

Everything that belongs to me scatters

Soya beans, sorghum, bananas blow away

My world has been swept away by wind.

Heart’s Desert

You sink in sands of sorrow

Drenching all chambers with drought.

The well is far from my workplace

I’m drowning with a dry throat.

I dream of downpours pounding the dam

But rise to the reality of roughness. 

Thirst has burnt the building

The blaze blocks all exits.

Your desert slithers like fire

You burn in a sea of sand.