desert songs

Take a splinter from the fire
       let it light your way
       Then follow
your song.

LIFE

Life begins
the journey
of the soul
to
the land
of the setting sun
where
Life begins.

A PRAYER

O Supreme Being, your feet
have crossed our land.
Rain has disappeared.
We starve.
We perish.
Send us rain.
Drag your coat
over the plains –
so that plants can shoot
and carry fruit
to give us life again.

A CHILD

A river is something
of joy and pleasure.
Where to 
flows it?
Where from
comes it?
We do not know.
A child is a river.

~
Songs of ancient Africa
The Namib