Kneeling
on the shores of home
smudges of (in)humanity
colour my inborn
but now mediated naivete
i cross the streets
sunken in this
turbulent vibrancy
imagining home as it was
not home as it is
yester-night's tv images linger
my mental storage capacity
floods with disaster pornography
of dead mothers and dying infants
livestock staggering to mortality
childhoods stolen, livelihoods lost
in this land,
farmers rot in poverty
as uncollected milk quenches
the thirst of a grateful earth
and maize and sugar barons
belch in amoral satisfaction
elsewhere,
babes hold on to lifeless emaciated breasts
dangling from expired Mamas
when will this madness stop
No!
mr Prime Minister:
distribution. not production
common sense. not rocket science
even GMOs at gunpoint is not enough
Kenyans for Kenyans is not enough
there has to be a way
a deeper way
another way
which way Kenya
© October 2011
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