Baobab Lover Poem by Nkosilathi Zinyane

You have eyes that attract like a baobab tree
Where men, women and children get refreshments for free
Your teeth are milky as the fruit itself
Your hair dark as the kernel that remains after sucking the milky fruit away.
That resilient seed that no sharp teeth can destroy
Your lovely stubbornness is hard like the baobab shell
That cracks only under the weight of an experienced boulder
What draws me to you is your love that is big as the tree
Taking your roots deep down into the limited depths of my heart
Your thickness is the trunk that stays nourished for centuries
Providing moisture from the scarce depths of love to the leaves of passion that never leave.
You are my baobab tree my lover