Echoes of life: Hayivo! Tihlekana Makovo!

Politics present a satire of life.

Of baboons who look at each other,

And behold how exagerated and ugly each other’s forehead is shaped.

With their accusatory finger they point,

At each other’s ugly foreheads,

And they bark aloud,

Roll down their backs,

Hold their aching stomachs unable to contain the ripples of laughter ,

That echo in the mountain caves and mountai tops and valleys.

And legs kicking and jerking in the air,

Through the impulsive movement of the stomach muscles from laughter;

While in the mixture of laughter and jeering,

The tears fall down the face from the watery eyes,

Excited by the fumes of laughter.

“Oh! What an ugly forehead you’ve got!”

So goes the baboons in the presence of their children;

In the presence of the other baboons and animals.

They jeer, vex and tease each other’s ugly forehead.

Ti hlekana makovo!

In the diversity of life,

Everyone has everything to say,

About the other’s ugly forehead.

And they all forget one thing,

That they are all of them Baboons! Hence,

Ti hlekana makovo!

Echoes of life