Somewhere an eagle flies <br />soaring o'er the dappled skies of Africa <br />Somewhere a tortoise cries <br />ploughing through the vast disguise of Africa. <br />A springbok dies and a day is born <br />The sun comes up to greet the dawn; <br />A child is sighing like a bird <br />And a nation is sounding a very new word. <br /> <br />Somewhere an apple train <br />waddles through the winding plains of Africa. <br />Somewhere a sparrow feigns <br />acting out the birthing pains of Africa. <br />A lizard leaps to his mother's scorn: <br />'Farwell, ' she says to her first born <br />A breeze is lifting a newly-fledged bird <br />And a nation is sounding a very new word. <br /> <br />Somewhere a new sunrise <br />burgeoning before our eyes in Africa <br />Has seen our childrens' weary sighs <br />bursting into happy smiles in Africa. <br />An aardvark snuffles through the corn <br />And winks an eye at a golden fawn <br />A sunbird is singing like you've never heard <br />And a nation is sounding a very new word.<br /><br />Margaret Kollmer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/peace-my-beloved-country-south-africa-1994/
