Africa can be a jungle

Of dominoes
Numbered with wars
And shifting sands

~~

Such dominoes
In the hands of a child
Can only be
Dynamite

But a child
One who God hears
An Ishmael
Blasting murder
With murder
Must be on a quest
Out of sync
With conventional
Celestial calendars
~
Ishmael
Can only hear
His God within
Bereft
Of
Namaste
~
And we
Numb
To any
Aethereal Gods
Dare
To judge
And sentence
This child
With the dates
Of an earthly calendar
~~~~~~~~~~

NOTES: In response to the article "Twist in the Tale of a Child Soldier" - "The Australian" - 19.01.08 - "ISHMAEL Beah is the former African child soldier turned best-selling author whose account of his time as a killer, driven by the memory of his murdered family, has sold more than 600,000 copies around the world. His searing tale made one television host's "heart hurt"...But a bizarre set of events, sparked by a West Australian mining couple, has revealed flaws in Beah's tale, A Long Way Gone."