Bushbabies and Bananas

When the rising moon calls to his soul       he cannot answer, he cannot follow Her shadow’s path weaving through the magic of twilit trees    as She glides so lightly through the sky, perhaps he catches a glimpse of Her against the smog and city pollution      through a dirty window as Night slowly creeps by He is trapped in this cage until his keeper comes tomorrow, when he is wheeled out for his part in the show,       degraded to being dressed as a human and playing drums, and the idiot crowd laughs and thinks this is good,     and that this is fun He cannot express his urge to swing or call, and instead of tree bark he has cold steel,     he cannot feel the gentle breeze rocking him to sleep in a branch, just the city’s noisy stories makes up the sadness of his real    His very nature eats away at him,     because you cannot trap the wind as it dances thro...

Copyright statement:   © Christine Jordaan. © Lyrics 2014.  Song © 2026. All lyrics are original works authored by me. The music and vocal performances were created using AI tools under commercial licenses that grant me ownership and perpetual commercial usage rights in the resulting outputs. All rights reserved. Note:   Visual content across this site may include elements created or enhanced using AI-generated imagery as part of the overall creative process. Words below blogged in 2014, adapted slightly for above song in 2026. He is a wild spirit       trapped in someone else’s idea for his life Imagine his despair of life in a cage, the pure frustration of wanting to swing free in trees and interact with his own kind, feel another furry body,       touch another wild mind      Feel his fear of the beatings when he hasn’t learnt to play his role correctly,           as ...

Photo credit:  Karl Ammann Beautiful people…. I was honoured recently to be contacted by Karl Ammann ( www.karlammann.com ), a wildlife warrior of note (named Hero of the Environment, and SAB Environmental Journalist of the Year).  He asked me to help raise awareness of the plight of the #slaveapes  as he had seen the world roaring out for our beloved lions.   Together with Dr Dan Stiles (danstiles.org), Nick Cockayne ( http://www.apeactionafrica.org/index ) and a specialised team they have created PEGAS. And so world - I am afraid I need some more tears from you, I’m so sorry.    After the lion march, I seriously wondered if I had any more tears left in my heart or had I cried them all out…  I worried that I had become one of those hard people you see that just don’t cry anymore…  but I’m afraid my heart has been broken again…  actually as I sit here now I wonder at what point one’s heart says “eno...