G

(10.05.2019, For my friend who was contemplating suicide)

No, G,

I cannot promise you that.

In fact, I cannot promise you anything at all!

Average Jobs

By Karani Kelvin

Boss says, average performers
Earn average wages, marry average
Spouses, have average children
Stay in average houses, in average
estates - if you can call them that!

The Feeling

By Karani Kelvin

I know

It grips me too

Rolls me, spins me

Sends me hurtling

Into the abyss

Everything is distant

I cannot find myself.

This is for us

By Karani Kelvin.

This is for us 
Who after years of toil
Our bodies were worthy of the gown
Oh, that precious crown 
Villagers travelled to see
And yet,
After so many years still lost at sea

Nguva ya Mombasa

By t. Michael Mboya

She volleys back jokes
in an ear-caressing lisp
that seeps through
a beauty gap in her teeth. 

Then there is her laughter:
water falls
under which I slough off
and have my mind renewed.

Reke Tumanwo

By t. Michael Mboya

This could have been
just another tiff
but for your spiteful words
these flames of a fire
that have brought my tears to a boil
tears which dribbling down my soul
now melt the spiritual chains
that join me to you.
There is nothing more
to say, really.

A dew drop

By Karani Kelvin.

A dew drop

Round like a ball of mercury
Stands atop a tomato
Like a sentry from the future
It guards its post, holding
A mini iPhone in its hands?