Okavango: Place of the Skull

In this great place

Where the elephant roam

Where the rivers embrace

Your ancestral home

Once you were king

Over all that you saw

From the dry dusty plains

To the wet muddy shore

Now you are silent

Your head on the sand

The guardian of pilgrims

Who visit your land

Sometimes you awake

‘Round the campfire at night

When the flames kiss your face

And your eyes dance with light

Then you speak to the shadows

Of the wisdom of ages

Of the secrets of wildness

And the passion that rages

In this place of the spirit

In this circle of stones

That are blessed by the gift

Of your skull and crossbones

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