HABEMUS #JordanHawi

You arrived here. 

eventually
clothed in clouds of drowsiness
a final borrow
from mum's anaesthesia

though a detour to the HDU
filled us with trepidation
you arrived safe. still

contentment reigns
no worthier co-heir
and Naimah the brilliant one smiles
karibu to this
our huduma republic

100K debt no doubt
a crown of thorns
around your graceful innocence
a future so indeterminate
a politics devoid of values
and generations lost to worries

come on though
for you too are a child
of this great universe
deserving of Daddily love

And so 50:50 it is
and #OnWard 

both must trudge
equal in the thickets of this life
naimah for hawi for naimah

not the boys less
but the girls more.

or is it?

© August 2019

THE #THIEVESofJUBILEE

Evil reigns
over public good
light shudders
at the sight of darkness
darkness thrives

what a pity
what sacrilege
that such a collection
of unethical biomass
should be called Jubilee

evil reigns.


© July 2019

AFRICAN SPRING(S)

Splinters of an African Spring

dominoes of freedom
dominoes that spread love

#BenAliIsFallen

echoes of malice
tom toms of delayed tomorrows
rend the air

#MubarakIsFallen

we heard your echoes
in the "Occupy Movements"
of a morally indefensible Europe
Obamaland too was pollinated 

All lives matter they said
#BlackLivesMatter we say

#BouteflikaIsFallen

fertilized agitations
fuel a desperate search 

for new humanity

#BashirIsFallen

Tunisia rises yet again
the limits of revolutions without revolutionaries

aborted dreams or dreams deferred?

Cairo? Tunis? Khartoum?

did we thinking about the post-revolutionary moment?

© July 2019