The Known Stranger

He is big, brown, intelligent,
They all know him in Botswana,
In Kenya, he is called God,
Gaborone idealizes his precious mind,
For Rra. Patkinson is a fighter,
He is a revolter against the apartheid.
He has been succeeding of late,
The whites have realized the worth of chocolate now,
Africa is evolving, coming out of the black grove,
It has started to create a space for itself,
In this big, vile world.
Rra. Patkinson soon is leaving behind his jewel,
His mother, his Africa, everything,
He ever fought for, is now losing it’s worth,
As Rra steps into an unknown,
Place as a known stranger,
But will England ever understand,
The worth of the stranger,
Known all over Africa,
The Known Stranger?