dry Africa...

Dry Africa - Tomas

- produced for the LSE Africa Summit 2015

if you look closely

you may see

a leaf or two

but no green leaf

if you look closely

the boughs

seem to hug one another

for support

and one could be broken

but

it is clear

no one 

is branching out

if you look closely

there is no sign of

bird life

no nest

it is clear

no one 

lives

just some

horse-like creature

seems prone

taking a long

long

rest

hooves

begging

in the dying sun

if you move back

and slowly focus

you see

the eerie dark bones of

Africa

calling

faintly

offering some empathy

perhaps 

to Greece