Sitting on a balcony

Sitting on the balcony

Sitting on the balcony
fingering a beer
I have bought
without any intention to drink:
I see a little boy
poking for something
in a refuse dump:
looking for a future?
I am afraid the stars say
your road leads to another
balcony, just like this one:
where you will sit
fingering a beer you bought
without any intention to drink.

En dikt av Charles Mungoshi, född på en farm
i Zimbabwe 1947. Blommorna finns på min
balkong på Kungsholmen i Stockholm. Jag
föddes också 1947.

© 1988 Charles Mungoshi
From: The Milkman Doesn't Only Deliver Milk
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
ISBN 1 77909 006 4