ETHEKWINI

eThekwini

Inspiring landscape
Inked in green
humbling hills
Ocean blue
This Vibrant View

Her Sun baked beauty
Feels like a delightful breeze
Caressing my being
Her breaths drum-beating
On the hide of my concrete layered Skin.

Calling me to sing of:

The mysteries
that shaped her nourishing breasts,

The sacred sculptors
Time carved from her salty tears,

The silver clouds that carry the courage of her reign,
The golden crystals of ebony Soil,
Her enchanting Soul.

The tragic testimonies twinkling
in her eyes like the morning star
singing in the sky.

Testimonies of:

Mankind's Melancholic Mind,

Her Guests Gobbling Greed
For the Jewel Starved Crown,

Their Fragrant Fantasies
That fill Their Hearts with
Dunes of Desire
For a Leg-less
Thorny Throne

As they barter
The Better Kingdom
For a Bitter Kingdom

The waves of Her Anger Roar from Afar
Crashing upon the numb shores of their barren be-ing.

And yet this heavy hearted host
Cushions her guests in love's delicacies.

Show yourself to me 

You Flower whose petals
massaged the skin of my ancestors

You Great Shade
that housed the timeless conversations of my ancestors.

You Heavenly Horizon
in which the days,nights and cosmic gifts 
of ancient ancestors and ancient descendants.

You River whose waters
carried the kisses of love to parched lips.

You Fire whose phenomenal flames
Shone in the hearts of sailors from afar
and memorised the magic of the Nguni Tribal dance.

You Rainbow
Whose music called the colorful fabric from the Indus
and greeted Sompisi's sight with dancing light.

Show yourself to me!