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A Cracked Ground

By Ombuge Moses

Mama!
You sleep on a crack ground
Empty is the stomach
Hot is the sun
Nothing to quench the crack
The thirst is killing
Cracked is my throat
Helplessly you lay
You sleep on a crack ground

Baba!
Your cry is echoing
My ears cannot stop
My tears cool my cheeks
My face is running dry
You sleep in a crack ground
Forever never to see you again
Mama has followed you
Death has come

It’s so helpless
Who to run to
They promised food
They brought food
They promised water
They brought water
We need food
We need water
We are dying of hunger, of thirst
Who will take care of me the orphan?
Will I die before the next food come?
Will I die before the next water come?
Will I die like Baba?
Will I lay helpless to death like Mama?
Heavenly GOD
Your mercy
I cry indeed
In need
Not In want

When they saw us dying
They brought canned food
When they saw us dying
They brought bottled water
This is a customary issue, problem
Death of hunger
Thirst to death
The solution is death, for me
For you, solution- canned food, bottled water
We need a source
Give us a water source
To plant the seed
To eat from our labor
Weeding, Oh! How is it done?
Irrigating the plant
Nurturing the crop
To live to see a generation
A healthy life
An ordinary way to live
To this

Mama!
You sleep on a cracked ground
Baba!
You sleep in a cracked ground
Dead, you are gone
I your son,
Tonight, I sleep on a cracked ground
If I see tomorrow, I will bury you Mama
I will water your grave Baba
If they give me a water source
Bottled one, I will quench
The thirst that killed you Mama
Use the source to irrigate
Plant a seed, to grow food
A generation
A future
A healthy mind
Never to sleep
On,
In,
A cracked ground
God, to guide
A Kenyan, for a generation

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Lying To a Gentle

BY Ombuge Moses

You wasted my time
So sweet you sound
Closer you got
Romantic you seemed
Convinced I was
The shore was beauty
Time we spent
Hands to hold
Beauty to hold
Beautiful was the beach
You claimed to love
Love to burn
Burn to death
My time you waste

Lying to a gentle
Gentle-man he is
To you he cherished
You broke my heart
A heart I treasure
You promised to love
Love with care
Stand by side
Now you are gone
Sweet ugly you sound
Trying to be
A friend to waste

My time to cost
Valuable I adore
One day to pay
I stop not to you
A lie you are
Forever to twist
A bangle you placed
My hand to hold
Your name the key
Black to white
White to reflect
Your love material
Sweet ugly you sound

The machete in my hand
My hand to chop
Your bangle to dump
Forever to forget
The pain to last
You waste my time
Ugly sweet you sound
Lying to a gentle
Now I rest
Forever to peace

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I Walk Into My Shadow

By Ombuge Moses

I leave
Shadow to guide
My destination blared
My vision mission stopped
Holding is the purse
Inside a book
For now, I read not
A boy shaking at heart
Memory to my Granny

Care from my Granny
Lovely she was
For father never known
Fatherly I missed
Family never known
My hope dead Granny
Forever to miss
The wind blew
Shadow to guide
The book to carry 
Wisdom in hand
People turn bush
Civil no more

My shadow, black dark
Blood red
Book white
Cover brown
Pen blue
Teacher gone
Gone to death
Lovely she was
Slum, life miserable
House burned 
Chaos to maintain
Walking to my shadow
Hope to wisdom
Education to peace
Peace lacks death centre
Butcher it sounds
Knife to slaughter
Human too salty 
To dump and rote

I leave
Shadow to guide 
I walk into my shadow
Inside a book

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The Echo In My Ear

By Ombuge Moses

Covered is my body
Cold be my feet
My heart wonders
I have no one by side
The world is so cold
Mean are the people
Humble they look
Animal in behavior
My body so cold

Where to start
Where to go
How to go
Orphan I look
Orphan I am 
Why?
I was happy
Family house full
Warm to neighbor
Business was my mother
Father different tribe
We share blood
Weapon to kill
My people dead gone
Forever an orphan

They came night
Whistling, my father ran
To banana plantation
My mother rapped
My sisters 11, 14
Rapped 
Weapon inserted
To death they wail
The echo in my ear
My hand chopped
Agreed not to kill
My father belongs
The tribe of killers

I son spared
Represent the family
No hand to wipe
Tears and blood
I weep in pain
My father belongs
Ran to banana plantation
Well is the wisher
Covered my body
Cold are my feet
Reason the vote
Cause big man
I the voter
His house so warm
The happening on TV
Comfort of his room
Warm are his feet
For me is death
Peace has gone
My heart to wonder

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Birds Try Walking

By Ombuge Moses

The river is dry
Plant weathered
Dry for wood
Wood for fire
The ground dusty
Bear feet women weak
Children loud cry
Wail in pain
Music has stopped
Dance no more
Rhythmic lost

The animal is carcass
Dead bonny no meat
Birds try walk
Fly is difficult
Dust in the eye
Ear too deaf
The wings no flap
Flap no flip
The strength is gone
The ground burning

The wind too hot
The rhythm is new
Dust in the eye
Shed under tree
In blanket men sleep
Covered to head
The strength is gone

Wood in plenty
Food not to find
Cooking is history
In books to write
Plate in plenty
Metallic is best
Awaits the food
Dust in the eye
Painful to the eye
The people suffer
My village is home
Home to thatches
Home that houses
Houses of a problems

The river is dry
The strength is gone
Dust in the eye
Birds try walking

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Strong To Tell

By Ombuge Moses

Alone be not
Exist to Happiness 
Exit to Sadness 
Joy to grow
Seed germinate

Ground hot too
Wind fast and dry
Dusts not settle
A lone be not

Young you are
Suck not my breast
For dead I am
Wish, hope you grow 
Strong to tell 
The story of this disaster
Dead am gone

Son, suck not
The breast of dead
Dead is your mother
Father to find
You get, share sad
Live happy, dead sad
Peace to preach