Barking Up The Wrong Tree Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

If I could bark at a tree
and find it standing after
a fire, when the bark has
fallen, then I would have
barked up the right tree.

Then I would bring a pack
of dogs to help me to solve
problems for the louder we
bark up the right tree the
more the politicians with
thick skin would finally listen
to our problems for we would
be fuelling the fire.

Then thieves would know that
we are a people with a voice.