When I Am No More

When this heart no longer beats

When my veins crumble

And run dry

Like a stream in drought

And the dark shine of my skin dies

Take me back home.

I want you to take me home!

Do not let me lie lifeless

In the open wide wild world

A carcass not even fit

For the hungriest hounds!

- Kelvin Karani.

The beast

We heard screams from our neighbor

Screams of panic, screams of fear

That so hurriedly

Dragged us from our homes

I Met a Girl In Kibera

I met this girl in Kibera

Tall, dark, lean, dark eyes and long hair

Elsewhere, she could have been a model

Strutting before hungry cameras and eyes

Making a living by being who she is

I sing not Kibera

I sing not this infamous slum

That is constantly topical

For crime, poverty, calamities

That characterise daily routine.  

When all is said and done

When all is said and done, More will be left said than done And we will forget them altogether For we do not live on promises of the past

I wish I was born earlier

I wish I was born earlier,

When people were still savages

And there was no wave of civilisation.

When men were manly,

And women valued their chastity,

As they value prostitution now.

One night

She came at night And left before light She had me ignite To the sweetness infinite