Intervene

Africa calls, the wild ride through the madness
Steel horses watch over the mooring
at the first flush of evening

Little hearts beat tonight
linked in chorus

as she flies from
half way though a story of fright
flight from an exchange so brief

as though something paid for
was never held
or a letter sent suspended in the sky
in the clutches of a sparrow

weaving around crowds of the hungry
negotiating but nowhere to land