Name: ELEPHANT'S EYE
Duration: P00H05M30S
Description: Needless to say, the unabated slaughter of animals for ivory & skins & industry, has reached epic & devastating proportions. We lose 100s if not 1000s of species everyday. I will go no further here , because we know. I wrote this while on a road-trip to Kruger's Phalaborwa Gate. Hazy, dusty ..

ELEPHANT'S EYE

from The Chattering Monkey by Edi Niederlander Trio.

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Needless to say, the unabated slaughter of animals for ivory & skins & industry, has reached epic & devastating proportions. We lose 100s if not 1000s of species everyday. I will go no further here , because we know. I wrote this while on a road-trip to Kruger's Phalaborwa Gate. Hazy, dusty ..

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Blue Lebombo in the distance
- I can hear the eagle's cry
I hurry on at her insistence to
gaze into the elephant's eye

The road ahead is hazy, dusty,
must be water I can see ahead
But I'm fooled by the illusion
it's just the shimmer of the road instead

Down the winding trail I wander,
I hear the thunder miles away
Dove is telling me that surely
there will not be rain today

Giant anthills, a hyena
stares at me with a scary grin
Long eyelashes in the treetops
- this must be a dream I'm in
Monkey business all around me
- at the bank, a gaping yawn
Magic swirls around me
like the spiral of a Kudu horn

Break of noon and the big baboon is
barking at my feeble try
To search the span of the savannah to
gaze into the elephant's eye

Vultures circle high above
- the riverbed is red & dry
Something crackles in the bushes
- will I see the elephants eye?

Skins that shiver from stinging
- singing & the winging bird
Quick & flicking Lizard tongue
- light reveals the dusty herd

I feel it rise from deep inside
- my beating heart cannot deny
The mixed emotions that I feel as I
gaze into the elephant's eye

I will fight for you forever
- tell your story far & wide
I will stop the hunter's bullet
- pull the arrow from your side

I can hear the rolling thunder, closer now,
the eagle's cry
You'll be back to feel the rain and
gaze into the elephant's eye

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from The Chattering Monkey, released September 12, 2019

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