by Mbũrũ Kamau
Published on: Feb 27, 2007
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Type: Poetry

The evening wind, gracefully blowing toward the west,

Running after the lazy withdrawing shadows

Without hasting to look back

In the vanities of the nature

Somehow, under desperate eagerness, we manage to move on!



Then under the glaring and shameless moonlights and the twinkles

It runs again, from here to there and back

As if there is no turning back

It moves in the majestic peace

Somehow, under the desperate eagerness, we manage to move on!



Then, it comes to me and I quickly accept it

Hoping for the best in the time it exists in my arms

It wimps, breaths, sighs, cries in my arms

But I soothe it with a smile

Somehow, under the desperate eagerness, I manage to move on!



One morning I humbled myself thinking of the eternal

Like a young person on a journey of conquering

I made up my mind, to open my heart

And allow it inside mine, sewn against and inside mine

Somehow, under desperate eagerness, I manage to move on!



Right now, I digress

Because of my insensitivity and supporting those who fights us

Not wanting to take sides, with them

And they put me asunder

Somehow, under desperate eagerness, I manage to move on!



I try searching for myself

In the vanity of wallowing hatred,

And fail to locate my heart, soul and mind

That I hide under the wallowing noise

Somehow, under desperate eagerness, I manage to move on!



I live here, without a voice

Feeling deeply etched in guilt

In a resounding novelty of catastrophic cacophony

And still, still

I manage to survive under the desperate eagerness!

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