Upon a will not of my own My eyes lured westward To the settling rustic clouds Spread wide-winged across the sky And from an open vortex came The leader's shrill reply.
The ducks of Sabie braced the winds up high Their wishbone flight kept in harmony Ignited a compelling thrill Deep within my half conscious eye For yet again I listen into memory.
The days spent at Sabie might have gone by But these alluring creatures pass here now Stirring a hidden intimate thought Which grew from Sabie's twilight river banks.
Where unattended grass abounds in profusion The blades tall from country breath and Wide pastures naked to the windy storms. Against a reddening sun and a blackening bridge Which overhung the ice-cold waters, Those ducks bleated their melancholic cry Like a marker for a question why.
Their passage seemed a continuous dream Their throats resounding the restless stream Sabie, a shelter to beautiful liberty That reverberates against green clad mountains Where heaven unites with a shy still spiritual grandeur
I watched the haunting waifs wander through the sky Like a ghost refection against my sub-conscious mind. A holier feeling, as a church spire lost in mists. Of a rainy day, yearned within me. Their swaying wings cast shadows in my heart Their beauty and their vagabond souls Provoke a thought of sublime content. That evasive mood on which poets' conjure A strength of divine sorrow and subdued delight.
While the river's rhythmic pulse beat over the rocks And in the darkness seemed a sight of slithering glass With the tall trees mirrored in its sun-stained depth A subtle yearning reached within my soul. An urge evolved to save this temporary while And rest within this insulated haven Where to hear the ducks invokes an embracing joy To be a limb, a fringe, a relative of this deity-like company.
Present falls too soon on shallow ears And the ducks of Sabie, might they be Lose their reminiscent shadows to the dark horizon