viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011

I had a farm in Africa...

He even took
the Gramophone on safari.
                   
Three rifles...
                   
supplies for a month and Mozart.
                   
He began our friendship
with a gift.
                   
And later...
        
not long before Tsavo...
                   
he gave me another.
                   
An incredible gift.
                   
A glimpse of the world
through God's eye.
                   
And I thought...
                   
"Yes, I see.
                   
This is the way
it was intended."
                   
I've written about
all the others...
                   
not because I loved them less...
                   
but because
they were clearer, easier.  
                   
He was waiting for me there.
                   
But I've gone ahead of my story.
He'd have hated that.
                   
Denys loved to hear
a story told well.
         
You see...
                   
I had a farm in Africa...
                   
at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
                   
But it began before that.
                   
It really began in Denmark.
                   
And there I knew two brothers.
                   
One was my lover,
and one was my friend...