So Clever Was The Hawk Next Door Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

So clever was the hawk next door
She laid her eggs on a nest she built
On the highest rock way up there
And came down in one fell swoop
To snatch a poo out of the nest
Of the hen built in the thicket small

So clever was the hawk next door
She kept her eye on a goat's little one
And saw the time to strike anhd
And flew up with the ewe dangling
On her claws as she flew up into the sky
Leaving the world perplexed.

So clever was the hawk next door
She called the hen a tourist
For she quacked alone and pecked o bits
Leaving her chicks unprotected.

So clever was the hawk next door
She offered to be a surrogate
For the chicks of others
While she stole and stashed them as
food
And went and nested with them high
To eat the endlesd manna.

So clever was the hawk next door
She stood out high and flapped her wings
And the dogs started to bark everywhere
And begged to fly on broken wings

So clever was the hawk next door
She built a nest on a metal pole
That opened the iron gate used by all
And sat up there and told all
She had the key to the iron gates
That kept them locked up in their
High end prison with its polluted air
And then looked down and said look
How foolish you are for you did it
To yourseves now live with it.