BOOMERANG

The poem advises us all against evil deeds, hypochondriac, and melancholy. Particularly, the speaker uses the device and the word itself to advise his subject - Malawi's national police.

A word with a lasting aroma; 'boomerang'

A word that curves an imagination on the mind

as if though a boom rang

A word that resounds within the mind many a time

It does whenever the dark eagles mime

Even when they try to feast on the sharp eyes of mine

 

A word with a tone of advice

On melancholy and against vice

A word that banters the eagles

Whenever they pursue no fixed goals

While their feet with their boots 

get galvanized with galls

 

An inanimate friend who knows its schemer

As it does fly back; "afloat like a skimmer

A word that pacifies and on the qui vive always

Post will-o-the-wisp though

The boomerang like an assailant returns

  

High, low; the eagle flies

It alights, in the air fast it runs

Under the sunshine, to moonshine from its rise

The eagles pacify the nation lengthwise

Shade the dark feathers off for white

But, alas!...

The eagle’s heart and blood therein!

Or are you just another goon on the run?

The boomerang does return