Africa Untamed by Wayne Visser

AFRICA UNTAMED

By Wayne Visser

Africa is wild:

A land untamed

A people unshamed

A life unrestrained

Yet there are those who would tame Africa

Who would break her unbridled spirit

Who would cage her soaring mind

Who would chain her flexing body

Rest assured:

They will fail

Like so many before them

And so many yet to come

For Africa is a savage hunter

Forever hungry for the next kill

Always preying on her weakest

Stained red in tooth and claw

Africa is free:

A land unyoked

A people uncloaked

A life unrevoked

Yet there are those who would prune Africa

Who would neaten her untidy people

Who would lop off her thorny tribes

Who would fortify her porous borders

Be assured:

They will fail

Like countless before them

And countless yet to come

For Africa is a sprawling jungle

Entangled with human tendrils

Locked in a deadly struggle for life

All competing for a place in the sun

Africa is changing:

A land evolving

A people resolving

A life revolving

Yet there are those who would calm Africa

Who would tranquillise her young agitators

Who would defuse her creative tensions

Who would dampen down her wild passions

Remain assured:

They will fail

Like generations before them

And generations yet to come

For Africa is a raging tempest

Howling with dreams and desires

Thundering with anger and pain

Flashing with imagination and inspiration

Africa may be many things –

Wild and free and changing –

But there is one thing Africa is not:

Africa is not for taming

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