Talks
Mishumo Madima

If you should inquire: when will humankind be revealed?
It is not here,
in these endless talks,
hours spent on phrases,
warm bodies and cold hearts.

In the evenings, you gather ivory and mythology and bury them in your backyard,
that if one day it should rain on this dust,
words would grow as seeds
planted in the children of earth to heed.
But not here,
in these endless talks.