A Broken Melody – Poem Written by Husain

Roaring waves, singing winds, tweeting birds, natures voice

It’s wonderful, isn’t it?

But people are failing, badly

By love, need, adore, sadly

Loving the sea so much to litter in the sea

Need of oxygen still cutting trees

Adoring animals so much to kill them,

How do you live?

It’s a broken melody.

Making my words ambiguous as South Africa’s freezing of amiss

Burning wood as Antarctica defrosts.

Knowing it’s not getting better, the costs

As the sun breaks dusk, like a bullet moving through flesh

Gunpowder to gun to gun man, leads to blood,

Blood that causes hearts to decay

Frozen love

It’s a broken melody.

People are failing, not striving they are prevailing

Time heals the invisible scars at night

To have patience waiting for the lights

How can you destroy a creation God gave us?

HOW DO YOU LIVE?

As for now it’s as far,

Nkosi isikalele iAfrika.