When you come face to face with danger, at that split moment
you think only about yourself. How your life has been.
What you have done
What you have not done
What you may never do
You sweat, because every organ is overworking.
You want to cry
You actually cry
You want to hide, because you feel naked.
You scream,
because the string of life is suddenly so thin so that you don't even know
how long it will withstand the tension that the danger brings.
Last year (2017), at a time like now, Nairobi was fear gripped.
A repeat presidential election had been concluded a few days ago.
The opposition which had boycotted the poll was hot angry together
with a whole chunk of their supporters.
Vegetables were expensive.
It was difficult to get roast maize anywhere along Gitanga Road.
A finger with or without a mark of indelible ink meant green or red depending
on where the path led you to. A wide path could suddenly become as narrow
as a squirrel path.
Human beings died in Nairobi last year.
Angels died in some parts of Kenya.
Love died.
In times of uncertainty you trust yourself.
We sing for heroes in peace times.
My displeasure with what has happened in Kenya in recent times does not give the
capital to celebrate past glory.
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you think only about yourself. How your life has been.
What you have done
What you have not done
What you may never do
You sweat, because every organ is overworking.
You want to cry
You actually cry
You want to hide, because you feel naked.
You scream,
because the string of life is suddenly so thin so that you don't even know
how long it will withstand the tension that the danger brings.
Last year (2017), at a time like now, Nairobi was fear gripped.
A repeat presidential election had been concluded a few days ago.
The opposition which had boycotted the poll was hot angry together
with a whole chunk of their supporters.
Vegetables were expensive.
It was difficult to get roast maize anywhere along Gitanga Road.
A finger with or without a mark of indelible ink meant green or red depending
on where the path led you to. A wide path could suddenly become as narrow
as a squirrel path.
Human beings died in Nairobi last year.
Angels died in some parts of Kenya.
Love died.
In times of uncertainty you trust yourself.
We sing for heroes in peace times.
My displeasure with what has happened in Kenya in recent times does not give the
capital to celebrate past glory.
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| President Kenyatta reviews a military parade in 2018 Mashuja Day/Newsweek.com |
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| An opposition supporter is clobbered by police in October 2017/Newsweek.com |
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