RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: RIVER SERIES
The Congo
You can hear the drums of the Congo
As if they were moving near
Charging western imagination
Filling our hearts with fear
Tarzan was lost in the jungle
That was fed by the Congo River
Where animals were wild and fierce
Making civilized people shiver
Alas the Congo was mostly myth
Invented by western writers
Reality is far more subtle
Than strange uncivilized fighters
The Congo feeds an abundant life
Its wildness is its glory
Without it so much life would cease
To shorten the planet’s story
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