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Africa, South Africa |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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Grazing free amongst the trees in the peace of all alone a lumbering old elephant looks forward, never back, in his quest for nourishment. The air is fresh and clean away from concrete towers where shadows come alive and slink and slither silently out into the streets. Africa, South Africa, from whence doth garbage come that blows from dingy alleyways into the country air and settles in my nostrils the smell of evilness? Behind my back a whirlwind swirls remnants of the past across the sky into my life and onward to the future to settle there and procreate more garbage for the young. Africa, South Africa, where have the children gone who once played hide and seek amongst bushes, brambles, trees, and climbed up rocky outcrops happy and at ease? And Africa, South Africa, where change and turmoil reign you are today, indeed you are, a land that swallows children and regurgitates more crime to steal and kill the spark of hope I light most every day! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
A heartache of a write, Helen. I can feel your frustration with some of the changes that have taken place the past few decades, and a foreboding of what the future holds. As most of the next generation of children will be raised within cities, the face of Africa will change. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Helen Your words light a candle of hope so often within my own heart...I wish the same for your country. One person and one forward step at a time.  |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
Your country is one of the great heartbreaks of the 20th century, a prime example of the horror that can at times come from well intended people folowing good intentions. |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
 Though I have never been, I feel the truth and sorrow of this. ....jo |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you all for reading and taking the time to comment. It's not all bad here but the uncertainty sometimes gets to one. I, unfortunately, found myself in one of those areas where one just shouldn't be - it happens sometimes and then I know ... one can live without breathing.  |
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