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by Mbũrũ Kamau | |
Published on: May 3, 2007 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=12999 | |
I have been waiting for your heart’s decision and acceptance Hoping, waiting and full of expectations Without opening the minute fears in me I only waited for your heart’s secrets To openly exercise the usual The evening orange moon watched with its glaring eyes All treacherous people moving here and there To and fro Aimlessly and vision-less Treacherous, insincere, hurt and hopeless All walking in the catastrophic ends Not knowing what lay ahead in the dark alley You and I used to shine, beaming with hopes Ready to see the sun’s rays peeping across the skies Beautiful watching the stars during the night And make cloudy figures in the skies on the sunlight Save for the naked skies Yes, we used to tenderly and gutsy hold each other’s teardrop As it fell down the genial cheeks, And carry other’s loads without frown Played games with sincerity And never lost our conscience We enviously held arms Making them unease That we became the talk of the village Even drunkards in their carousal, mentioned us That the devil and his demons revere us I look back at the gone bright days, filled with silent darkness Crouching inside our hearts, like a viper waiting to charge At an unsuspecting child in the green grass Now a pregnant hatred lingers Etched deep inside us That even the dead have gone deaf, At the mention of me And my little secret buried inside my heart Only waiting for yours to confirm That we should no longer live in distance As it is becoming We sat and sat, sorted and sorted Gallantly assuring ourselves that it would never happen And that the gap will soon disappear I assured my heart that everything will be fine The dark old days Will no longer exist Because ‘the devil was behind that’ Still I waited For the courageous dawn to finally come My days have gone dark, unexpected and without direction I have over and over told my heart, to stop keeping secrets Because I end up getting hurt And not know what to do As I cannot express myself out For fear that the night be darker Than it has We live in fear of indifference Looking at each other with grey eyes Because of the secrets in our hearts Which I am guilty of Sometimes wondering Is it worth? Why should I feel that I no longer exist in you? Only a body without a shadow moves around Sometimes I want to tell you the secret in me But my mind tells me, another day will come And I foolishly listen Why can’t your heart stop feigning about? And say it out rightly Its feels and pains, That I stop living a lie But then… am I ready to listen to yours? And firmly stick to that Without feeling guilt Am I? Surely am I? Stop hurting me and console my agitated Patiently waiting heart Unending Secrets… hurting me! « return. |