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Poems

A Half Dance

“Half of a dance is better than no dance!”
I might have said, that first day, we spoke.
And I held her from when she began,
to the moment the close embrace broke.

I noticed her's, brown, & then mine shut, glued
her image locked within.
For a second, I peeped, her smile was all, I saw
A picture sealed in my forever file.

I was rebellious; a heart of stone,
But her voice was tickling my every bone.
I wouldn’t laugh but my heart would blush
He broke out into a warm love rush

I was fighting him to calm down.
She was calling him out with her eyes.
I was resisting with all my brawn,
But he broke out with ecstatic sighs.

Half a moment is better than no moment
Half a chance, than no chance
It left me stunned; alone on the dance floor.
undone
 

Old Pots:

Old pots burn slow
and worn hearts have no glow.
I’ve had too much hurt and strain
To bear pain again.

Old pots are coated with soot
and hearts grow to be as dark.
Love is no longer the heart’s root,
It’s like a fire that lost its spark.

Old pots can’t hold water
And hearts see nothing to seek after
The pots slowly lose all they hold
And hearts lose all they behold.

Old pots have no use
And hearts, no power to muse;
They mope around tattered and torn with heads aground
And the pots, battered and worn, grimly bound.

Old pots carry many stories
And hearts are very wise
Old pots are where most flies flock,
and hearts are where ships must dock.
 

Nature's Voice

The Voice is trying to speak,
Listen closely, do you hear?
Too much noise inside your ear,
Yet the message is very near.

It cries, melancholy is her song,
Who can see her tears.
The cost of her pain is dear,
It has been suppressed many a year.

It whispers in the wind,
I listen in my mind.
It’s a voice that none can bind;
That only the blind see.

It talks in the rain,
But no being is taking it in.
The calm words raindrops carry,
Get buried deep in natures green.

It shouts, it thunders, it storms!
the few understand, the many misunderestimate.
‘Care for me and keep me from harm!’
Is the first cause to which man is bound!
August 2001
 

Our minister does not sleep

Our minister does not sleep

Oh no he doesn’t…

When electrical power goes out

(No sooner than the sun has set)


He has a hand in it

When the fire on the stove

Burns itself out while waiting for flour

He has a stake in it


He finds the time

In his busy schedule

To direct constituency development funds

To develop his constitution


He only rests his eyelids

In broad daylight

Inside parliament

When important bills

Come up for discussion

But even then he is not asleep

Absolutely not...

He still expropriates and appropriates

He taxes while he snores

And spends while he drools


When we all retire

Mheshimiwa goes out

On the prowl

Along Koinange Avenue

Sampling street walkers

To ensure their fitness

For western tourists


Our Mheshimiwa loves the youth

With all his being

Be they boys or be they girls

With them he is generous to a fault

That is why they call him

Baba sukari

 

Formerly

The formerly

Mrs. Western Sudan

She divorced herself

Against her husband’s will

And for a while

Went by her childhood name

Darfur

But the old husband

With weak objections

From the community

Married her off

To Mr. Crisis

And now

We all call her

Darfur Crisis

She mourns with

Two million

Internally displaced

Voices

Seeking refuge on

Refrains of Rwanda

And longs for a

Home-land

Of her own

 
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