Zimbabwe

the call of the unheard voice
the powerless, walking hand in hand
in a seeming miracle of survival
a land where the rushing waterfall plummets into the Zambezi
contradictory free falling water
a nation of oppressed men, women, children
asking for their thirst to be quenched
for the liberty of one meal a day
their pleas go unheard
until now, when they shout in the settlements
in the towns
in the ravaged farm lands
freedom.