Qwerty Revolutionists

I'm a Facebook rebel An Internet introvert More like the Anonymous hackers Masked cowards who can't stage a coup like our ancestors And change the course of our social discourse I condemn all forms of atrocities And all retrogressive political mechanisms By copy-pasting blogs and famous quotes on my wall-posts So as to appear smart and revolutionary No time to think independently anymore I join Facebook Groups and Pages That ridicule tribal alliances And ICC list of shame While in real life I'm a coward who can't scream to stop a neighbour's house from being robbed And 99% of my friends, customers, beer-buddies, roommates and colleagues are tribe-mates We are QWERTY revolutionists We don't have the guts to take to the streets Or withstand tear gas canisters or live bullets Or police whips like Wangari Maathai to protect the environment We so are addicted to life That no one wants to die for a cause like Robert Ouko or JM Kariuki No one wants to look a camera in the eye and shame the devil of corruption and impunity and flee to exile like John Githongo Or die in poverty and a whizzing chest of a whistle-blower like David Munyakei Or instead of "LOL" "LMFAO", sit back and write books to change the tide of stereotypical approach to national issues Write plays that will forever make us enemies of state like Ngugi wa Thiong'o Or write real poems that will cause an up-rising like Leopold Senghor No. We are social sites socialites Wikipeadia scholars Google researchers Facebook book-worms Twitter truth-twisters "Type Amen" Christians And keyboard revolutionists We are a generation of quacks Quirky QWERTY quacks Who forget that real life is not on the web That the perpetrators of national decadence and disintegration have no time for Facebook They are in your backyard planting seeds of discord Planning to distribute your useless vote They are re-reading the 48 Laws of Power While you are re-reading your last Post to see how many "Likes" you have They are manipulating the statistics to instill fear They are creating the problem so you can cry to them for the solution