I am a Maasai Moran
And I will soon be gone
I know tourists love to see me
But I simply have no more run
In days of yore
When I came of age
I would be circumcised
And kill a rite lion
Now I only get circumcised
And God knows for how... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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One day I will stop crawling like a worm
In the shit dump of my life
Break free from the cocoon of misery
And be reborn, beautiful as a butterfly
One day I will stop fearing the heights of failure
Stop flapping in vain against adversity
And... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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A gay mood is in the air
Lesbians and bisexuals are hand in hand
Transgenders are answering the questioners
And a gaggle of pluses are in giggles
While they march in pride
I shamefully hunker in my closet
Tightly bound in self-censorship... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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My soul is lost
My spirit is broken
And my heart is shattered
Into a million pieces
One thick wicked shard
Was broken in my childhood
By the blade of a low birth
And the abuse of an orphanage
A long sharp shard
That cuts deeper than a... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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The empty rooms are my empty heart
Cold and draughty with loneliness
The shattered window shutters
Are the shattered pieces of my heart
The broken door hinges are my dreams
The ones that always remain in my sleep
The leaning roof with holes
... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I am the dunghill that attracts a cloud of flies
The one that contains a wheelbarrow of maggots
The one that holds a horde of chitinous dung beetles
The one that only a sick warthog can drop
I am the gloss flotsam scum
The one that comes with... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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If I were a betting line
No punter would bet on me
For the odds of my being
Are too long to fit on paper
Consider the fact of existence
The long long odds that things are
Instead of their not being
And thus making my odds nil
Consider... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The morning was foggy
And my sight was a little bit foggy
I went to see the old foggy
To mend my truck's foggy
Afterwards I collared my dog
And we made our customary jog
Halfway through the local bog
My bicycle chain slipped the cog
I... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Did the egg, smooth and mysterious
Begin the long hen and cock lineage?
Or did the original mother hen
Lay the first egg that egged on the lineage?
Did the big bang, in its crescendo
Begin the creation of all that is?
Or did the mysterious... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Plants are in all intents and purposes sentient
And any serious observation will prove it so
But how in God's name do they 'think'?
And do they have a brain of sorts?
Will we ever hold a conversation with them?
Can they be considered as true... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Long accrued and matured knowledge?
A widely and deeply read consequence?
A localized agreed assembly of facts?
Or the optimum application of... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 1 View added 1 year ago
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What if at the juncture of choice
The opposite of existence happened
That all that is known, felt and tangible
Was in all universe not to be... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Sadly, my life has a melody
A tune to which I dance to
It jerks me like a marionette
Twisting me in utter agony
Its drums of doom
Are my head knocks against the wall
Its trumpets of Armageddon
Are my cyclone sighs
The glass-shattering... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I am tired
Very very tired
I now want to rest
And I need it now
I want to drop the weight of the world
From my weak and broken shoulders
To ease the burden of life
From my heavily bent back
I want to lose the shackles of poverty
To... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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They said that I should go to school
And there I would learn and be wise
But I soon found out that the education system
Was only 10% education and 90% system
A place where little girls and boys
Are brainwashed into blindly following the system
... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I am an egg
And my shell is not invincible
If you don't stop hitting me
You will break me open
I am fragile like glass
And my smoothness is not strength
If you bang me too hard
I will definitely break
My head is a bulb
And I have bright... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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My soul is dead
My spirit lies in pieces
And my heart is frozen
Never to feel, never to love
My mind knows no rest
My body is weak with hunger
And my limbs are lame
Never to enjoy the fruits of their labor
I shouted myself hoarse for... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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My pain spills like ink
The blood of a wounded pen
It smudges all the good things
And blots the life out of me
My pain splits like a headache
Bites like a migraine
And staggers like dizziness
Boring like a drill into my soul
My pain... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Do you suffer sometimes from constipation?
From an obstinate poo that refuses to pull?
From a real urge that refuses to budge?
Don't sweat it! Here's the answer!
Stretch out your right arm outwards from the elbow
Both if you are suffering... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I am down and out
Mired in the mud of misery
Trodden by the heel of life
Crushed by the stone of despair
I have been bleached of the taste of life
My sight fogged by tears of grief
And my hearing lost in loud wailing
I don't know whether... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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They say I am a worry warrior
But I worry they are wholly wrong
I am worried sick with worry
To make any worthy warrior
I worry I will be hit by a lorry
I worry I will fall from a storey
I worry I will get into a parry
I worry too much, I... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I am a beast
A hairy wild thing
I am not a fairy tale
And I was never a prince
I growl when I yawn
And I roar when I sneeze
My hands have claws
And my feet have talons
My teeth are canines
And my jaws are G-clamps
My bite is poisonous... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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My whole world is a giant chessboard
Where the gods have their evening games
All my characters are chess pieces
And all my moves are calibrated
I am mostly a pawn
And helpless as a newborn fawn
My job is to be traded and bargained
The... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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I am humble and meek
And I don't know what more they seek
They say I am a wild jackal
And that my sheep's clothing is fake
I bleat my way through life quietly
Stepping lightly and avoiding others' toes
But they claim it's a predator's... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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I am just a child with freckles
Although a fair bit more than normal
They make me red, but am not angry
And I swear I won't bite you
I simply have a different skin color
And my shade might be a bit darker
The difference is only skin deep
... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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I have always been alone
Ever since I can remember
I simply don't know how to mingle
And the more I try, the more I bungle
I have always felt I don't belong
And I live on the sidelines
Relegated to the role of observer
I watch the world... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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My love burns red
A flaming red passion
It's ignited by the strike of a cupid's arrow
And once ignited cannot be quenched
My anger burns scarlet
And strikes like a mallet
It sears like lightning
And roars like thunder
My hate burns black... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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I am a rare wood
But they say I am a bad wood
I do not bother anyone in the forest
But they say I do not belong
I am accused of being born this way;
Burning from the wrong flames
Setting the wrong woods afire
And making the wrong mycelium... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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The strong conviction of better things
The warm feeling of future victory
The sweet expectation of felicitations
The irrational belief in the impossible
The heartbeat of the dying
The bread of the starving
The freedom of the bonded
The balm... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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From the light of the big bang
All things came to be
From the light of the supernova
The earth and other planets came
From the light of the nuclear
The stars are born to life
From the light of the solar
The planets get a dawn
From the... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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