Africa Is Too Hot

The sun shines daily on our heads

and all we say is:

Africa is too hot!

Too hot for what?

For thinking?

For dreaming?

For demanding whether this is God's way of reminding us

that we look but still we cannot see

all that heat and yet we pray

for rain to fill the dam

so we can please have our lights back on

a few hours a day?

Oh - it costs so-o-o much, the experts claim

to tap into the rays of the sun

and yet they forget

no lasting good

comes without a price we have to pay

And so the story never changes

power surges, blown-up fridges

little work done throughout the land

and still

the sun shines on our heads

and all we say is:

Africa is too hot.