Come what may, change is here, <br />In defiance of the tears and bloodletting of the heavens, <br />The stars protesting against the sun's turn, <br />Forgetting their span of life is spent, <br />New broom sweeps clean, <br />For the rainstorms to plough and irrigate new beginnings, <br />Dirt and thorny weeds are riders in the sea flow, <br />Defiance of change, no brook by the winds of change, <br /> <br />Pyramids built and fortified for permanence, <br />Shaken by the forces of nature, <br />No longer stand the test of history, <br />Birds' nests fall, no moment's existence is spared, <br /> <br />The forgetful and complacent, <br />Smothered by the loud bang of the havoc of the storms, <br />The ominous sound of thunder belittled, <br />Said to be weak and far from arrive, <br />The winds of change, vortex and straight flat push, <br />Bring yesterday in the mix and run away leaving the behind to cry rain, <br />Tomorrow kissed, tomorrow spat on, <br /> <br />Birds of season chasing the repeat of nature fervent, <br />Remonstrating chick lets perish in the field of learning, <br />Wisdom missed in the fast of the wind blow, <br />Only the wise men detect wisdom within the sound of the wind blow, <br />Yesterday, today and tomorrow, out of kilter by the winds of change, <br />Change, strange in the happenings in tow, <br />Frightens the hearts out, minds demented, <br />Hands held over mouths, too late to preserve life, <br />The winds of change, now the dirt of tomorrow in the vehicle of change, <br /> <br /> Niki Nkuna,5 March 2012<br /><br />Niki Nicholas Nkuna<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/winds-of-change-19/
