KIAMA

With our feet dangling
dangerously by the water of the Lolwe
and Heineken takes its rightful toll
on our creative faculties

we shall sit  unstill with Kiama
and others not before the court
and there,
gazing into the patient waters of Lolwe
dare to imaginate new possibilities

and the weakened Nyanza sun
sensing our impatience with lightness
shall give way
- albeit reluctantly -
to exciting ways of the dark night
Kisuma!

© April 2015

SUBTERFUGE

I turn and swirl in endless motions

grasping at spineless dreams

clasping reeds of needs

gasping for elusive airs

my mortality affirmed

by this whirlwind of needs

deeds, not needs

still

the worst of me cancels

fades out in the face of the best of me

what then is immortality

we are in this together

even though
the viciousness of old dogs

now flirts dangerously close

to the carelessness of you

we are in this together

my mortality
affirmed

by this whirlwind of needs.

© April 2015