Rex De’Ath-Vale
The Banana Skin
A banana lay in a sack.
He was torn, shredded and peeled and ripped.
Soon he would be gone forever.
He didn’t like to be this way.
He lay there and thought back to.
Back to when he was in the hands of a man.
When he was raised to the mouth
And about to be eaten by him.
His red tongue moving with hunger.
He didn’t like to be this way.
He lay there and thought back to.
Back to when he fell in the fruit bowl in fear,
With oranges, kiwis and apples.
Three weeks he was there.
He didn’t like to be this way.
He lay there and thought back to.
Back to when he was carried in a truck
With thousands of other bananas too.
On a boat. The boat was moving,
Moving too slowly for them to slide.
He didn’t like to be this way.
He lay there and thought back to.
Back to when he was on his tree, happy.
Hanging with apples and kiwi fruit
And others like himself. In the steaming sun.
And feeling the breeze on his skin.
Aged 9.
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