Ignoble I, Outrageously Small

~ big with anger ~

“Abandoned” Acrylic on Canvas by author

Ah

someone help

get my head

out of myself!

Ignoble I, outrageously

small

big

with anger of the guiltless

at vices I cannot defeat,

implore. Look!

The devil is busy burning babies

In a golden veldt

I want to see lionesses

suckle cubs not their own —

such gravitas and godliness!

I want to hear

belligerent elephants

trumpet and triumph

pass a timeless message

— unity is all is all is all —

as they dance, drunk on

mythical baobab juice

the devil is burning babies…

Who will be my friend?

Entourages of rajas

flutesong and mantras

hum inside an

ancestral Banyan tree.

You endure, I am emptied