AFRICAN

I need you as a white master

among the black people

to worship you as God

As equator which divides me into two halves

Mirage and dehydration

Every year new chain around my neck

Every month ritual trans

Every day the death knocks on the door

Every night the belly touches the back

Every hour I dream bread

Every minute planned extermination

and every second I reborn myself multiplied

I need you as a nomad in my desert

as a hermit in the sand

find the oases

and inhabit them as a sinner.