User:Afrikuz

THE VILLAGE GIRL

Though the high hills buried the slum, the cities main streams circled around.

Our market square was a stage for fame.

If the elders council deliberates by noon, most teenagers hit the main streams.

"You never drown in a water that low", the boys would say.

Our mothers are up early to hunt for fame, and young fathers might hunt for game.

Wise elders still deliberate by noon, the youths only dream the township.

You only fall once, climbing a hill that high.

I saw most build a dream and watch it fall apart.

None walks over that isolation wall, only by imaginations.

I walked up the high hill, down the main stream, to the market square to meet our mothers.

It took me nine months, or about.

It was a girl. Marvis Reeds