To watch and not to look and see


To watch and not to look and see

I’ve pixellated Africa, seen it through a lens,
I’ve seen those grazing faces and passed their creaks and dens,
I’ve marked their sky with noise and fumes and sped across their plains,
till I saw them all, both great and small - their beards and tusks and manes

All curiosity satisfied,
I thought.

I thought,
Till troubled now with deep regret,
that I had only looked and seen,
and not made time to stand and stare,
at nature’s greatest scene.

April 2020

Maji Moto, Loita Hills, Rift Valley, Kenya.jpg