by Mbũrũ Kamau
Published on: Feb 27, 2007
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Type: Poetry

Lonely hunter


In the vast Savannah, brown and whistling

It resuscitated self and stretched the long folded arms

In the middle of a land full of treachery

And thought it might not be buried again

Without accomplishing the virtue



Full of erect manifold it moves fecund and bouncy

With little eccentrics or indifference

And races towards the human pretence

With agility

With agility



The lonely hunter has no future

No catch to hunt all gone with the harsh wind

But…one catch sets self in

The hunter snares it

Feeling important and chest-thumping



He fends the limping catch well, watches its move

And offered a helping hand

The emotional thirst ran deep in him

But he kept his knife in the scabbard

Waiting for the right time



The catch, now able to jump and move about

Just sleeps as the hunter sweats over

It moves hereabout and does not care about

As the hunter continues



Then one day, just one day

Things went outside the fence

And the hunter settled the wind

Raised above the normalcy

With little ineptitude



The catch ran away

And the hunter has gone bitter

Wished he had eaten her earlier

Than wait




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