I Lost My Innocence
I still remember you
The big sister that never was
The neighbors daughter
So pretty a girl
But you were always the big siz
You even pinched off my naughty me
Dama the pretty neighbors daughter
Your mother was not...
GET UP UNCLE NZEMBE
Get up uncle Nzembe
Come and see the fruits of our labor
Come and inspire how hard work
Who in our village
Is as hardworking as uncle Nzembe
He is a early riser
He wakes up at almost...
My Father’s Gaze
We sat down facing the west
As the sun lazily crawled behind the green hills
Under the older than time mango tree
We sat on rickety three legged stools.
His face engulfed in mystery
Stroking his grey mustache
He gazed...
My First Poem
It was not a mere poem
It was an expression of my heart
It was moulting from the cocoon of shyness.
It an inspired flow of words
That praised beauty
It spill blood
From my heart bleeding of love
Yearning to...
Am Letting Go
Am Letting Go
The bells are ringing
Balloons, ribbons and the glamour
The hundred and hundreds of people
All here all as witnesses
All to bemuse themselves with the sight of you beautiful in white
I love the sight of...
I Wish You Joy
If I had one final wish
I would wish you joy
From the nerve ending to the spinal end
Joy flowing endlessly
I would hold night vigils
Hold candles at the moon break
At the most pitch dark nights...
My Last Poem
How would it be
The last strike of my pen
When death shall grasp me
Come like a crimson tide
When I will be no more
Will it form part of my eulogy
Would it live on beyond me
Would it...
My Roof Leaks Sweat
My Roof Leaks Sweat.
In confusion, I sit on the floor
My once new and classy floor mat
Shaggy with years of dusty feet
The rain outside torrents
But I hold on to my umbrella
Flashes of the past flood...
Against The Color Principle
In the solace of the empty streets
I walk all alone
With unfilled gaps in my heart
Of the origin of my kind
Am branded names
As those that should shower compassion
Shun and avoid me like a...
