Let us consider
the harshness of the sun of Gaborone
Gaborone sun may rise slowly
but when it hits
it hurls all to the nearest shade
The virulent Gaborone sun
addles the brains
visitors and residents alike
Gaborone sun wakes all up
and interferes with all illusions
Gaborone sun melts hard-boiled politicos
and makes mayors fumble
it make poets fugde lines
and bird churn out off-key tunes
it makes census-takers lose count
The vicious Gaborone sun
cancer-inducing and stern
makes sociologists misread scenes
and present smudgy pictures
of how people of Gaborone live
Unrelenting, the ferocious Gaborone sun
reaches smart enclaves and low-cost areas
boosting lust in elderly people, stealing sobriety
sapping dash and making corruption
swell and pollute the frowning streets
The same sun of shoddy Gaborone
accesses classy zones of money-mad people
who cuddle the city’s biggest migraines
Gaborone sun turns up appetite for spicy gossip
in the backbiting circles of manicured fangs
the brutal and unruly Gaborone sun powers all
in a democratic way, the hooded robbers,
smart-aleck swindlers, retrenched smugglers
tipsy bag-snatchers and leaders
operating in the darkness of outworn beliefs
the sun of Gaborone checks resolve
challenges patience and snatches verve
electricity and its load-shedding baggage
and hefty bills come and go
but Gaborone sun, ardent as ever remains
in Gaborone writers exchange email addresses
and diffident glances
but the sun of Gaborone,
divisive in its majestic wisdom
hardly lets them connect
And we say something has to be done
as Gaborone teems with plans untried
schemes shelved in dusty hope
as power-mongers run amok provoking
the judicious wrath of Gaborone sun
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