Serengeti Serenade
God may, or may not, be in His heaven,
but everything is most certainly well.
We’ve just seen a herd of Thompson’s Gazelle
Maybe as many as six or seven
thousand, all preceded by the big five:
lolloping lion and hissing hippo,
leopard, buffalo, redoubtable rhino
and more; making us glad to be alive.
Here, so close to where our ancestors walked
out of Africa from near Olduvai
having dropped from the trees, using their thumb
to hitch a ride to progress, past roads forked,
away from this garden of eden to fly
who knows where … praise how far we have come!!
(Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Where fossils of early
primitive men were found)
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