Chocolate Children

Sweet chocolate children
Dipped in honeyed sun
Doughnut Dandy,
Laughter on the run

Small hand round my finger
Dark on light
Dappled shade
Bright rainbows of the night

Sweet my children
Africa’s new seed
They grow in beauty
Where the brave have bled

From the bones
Of tragedy and pain
They build a ladder
To the stars again

Pushing petals outward
To the sun
Sweet my children
Hope at last begun