Sunday, November 20, 2011

Wanting

I have not felt the want of anything so badly in such a long time. I espied a loafing, adorable urchin on my street this morning, while everybody was at church. He was gazing over a dwarf fence into a neighbour’s compound. Even from far, I could tell his naughty contemplation. As I got closer, I saw his bait: a chandelier of low-hanging green mangoes. He panned from the fruit to my face, and then back. His honest hankering made me almost stop to aid the trespass. Such simple hunger! It is a feeling I have not had about anything in yonks. And the mangoes were not even ripe!

3 comments:

  1. I can feel this. Pity and poverty mixed in somewhere or pure lust after the fruit.

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  2. Sorry for you!!! This all so wrong...

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  3. its almost a haiku

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