Victoria Falls

Here where the smoke thunders

My heart lies here

Buried in this soil

Among the dormant nutrients

Held in its grasp.

Among the minute communities

Of the insects that lie within it

My heart beats

With the throng of the matabele ant

Throbs with the colonies of termites

And unites with the slow steady rhythm

Of the heartbeat of Zimbabwe

My heart lies here

Here where the fish eagles haunting cries

Pierce the landscape

Here where the water is broken

By the giant kingfishers’ calculated dives

Here where the air is pure

Where the birds are the surveyors of the land

Here where the skies lie open

In a brilliant display

Of vibrant blue.

My heart lies here

Encircled by the power

Of the Zambezi

Here under a curtain of constantly falling water.

Here where the beauty is uncontaminated,

Here where nature is in her purest form,

Here where heaven and earth meet.

Here where your senses are heightened

By raw and untouched beauty. 

My heart lies here

Here where the smoke thunders