Is it doomed <br />through pestilence <br />and poverty? <br />Is there <br />a God <br />to look <br />with kindness <br />upon <br />this continent? <br /> <br />Three million years <br />it took <br />to let the scum <br />of filth, <br />of war <br />and genocide <br />rise to <br />the top. <br /> <br />It stays afloat <br />through <br />the calamity <br />of gold. <br /> <br />Some say <br />that Africa <br />is now, <br />at last <br />to come of age. <br />A strong <br />and healthy continent <br />is just beyond <br />the far horizon, <br />called <br />Fata Morgana.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/africa-8/
