OF LIFE!

Of life between the rails,
In the rains and no hails,
Suppressing pain to no avail,
Drenching in the muddy trenches
of wretchedness.

Life lost in lies,sighs, lows
and highs,
Trusts trampled upon,
Faith found then flown
and blown away,
Of love lent and taken back.

Of peace broken into pieces,
Share and care shredded
and shrunk to sheer shadows,
Sanity severely stained,
Plunged into a pool of
poverty,
Pure with peril.

Of religion and rebellion,
Doubted rejected and abandoned,
Of principles compromised,
Standard shaken,
Promises broken,
Sins sacredly committed
and concealed.

Of feelings hurt,
Hidden in hearts but heavy,
Patience overstretched,
Kindness faulted and
abused,
Of passions inflamed,
then deflated in blink.

Surprisingly we still live,
Through the hurdles we survive,
Beaten but never defeated,
Knocked down but not out,
Condemnation then acquittal,
Of life that makes us
Strong.

I TRY

I (I TRY)
I believe in God,
That’s why I try doing good,
Forcing myself,
Even when not in the mood,
Though I stumble,
I always endeavor not to be proud,
Pride that hurts the spirit.

I smile often,
Ever grinning to soften,
Hardy hears of emotions,
Weary faces of frown,
Drowned, withdrawn, and joy so torn,
I try to share love,
True love that is rarely gotten,
I try never to dishearten.

I live life to achieve,
Offer to the world,
Whatever I’m meant to give,
Sometimes I get hurt and grieve,
Cry, curse, regret being alive,
But I always thrive and forgive,
Ensuring I don’t dwell on the negative…
The best way to achieve relief.

I sin,
When I act, pray and think,
Struggling to fight and win,
Duels that have no life meaning,
I feel brought down and trampled upon,
Beaten by my own human nature,
But I take it all in,
Pull up myself and hope again.
I try.

I like my patience,
The peace I gain from silence,
I enjoy loneliness hence,
But I get lost in self conscience,
That which hurts my persistence,
As out of myself I try to make sense,
Only to halt at the difference,
Between my life and existence,
I want to see through life’s lenses.

I am not righteous,
I love to think I’m generous,
But pleasing to all? Not always,
Sometimes in fact I am envious,
I don’t condemn myself for this…
I’m not that pious,
I may leave that to the philosophers,
Since I’m not a genius,
Just trying to be cautious,
All I yearn for….
To be conscious.

All my friends I appreciate,
Thank God you all came my way
By fate,
All the good you do to me I replicate,
I try at my enemies not to hate,
I meditate upon everyone day and night,
Albeit uneasy to pull off I admit,
But that I exist is a fact,
And by doing this is I live,
I don’t doubt, I trust.

I feel sad,
I have been disappointed,
Disoriented and rejected,
Accused and misjudged,
My pleas going unheard,
My tears of innocence unseen,
But I emerge again from the rain dry,
For he brings courage I always yearned,
Faith that I’ve always wanted,
Joy that I’ve ever hoped for,
I’m happy.

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MY HEART ACHES!

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YOU WENT AWAY!

In your eyes I saw myself,
in my heart I needed help,
because at your thought of leaving me,
just made me want to yelp,
for surely I believed we were to be,
until you decided to go to the left,
leaving me here static to melt.

Inferior in the world I really felt,
since i considered you the best ever gift,
now I'm left to relive the past,
the past that seems even lost,
in the embers of nostalgia I still roast.

But someday someway, I will be in my nest,
living to the full my life in rest,
not wasteful years of love I spent,
with you whom I not really meant,
I think to me you were not sent,
yet I still respect that like I do the lent.

Danny

LOVE

In a single tree I see the whole forest, in one beast I see a whole herd but in you I see only me!

BLOODY BATH

Far in the fields I see heaps of corpses,
Women and children running for the lives,
Men with arrows lodged in there chests,
Tears and blood, but just what went wrong?

This is not a disaster or a catastrophe,
Neither are the scenes from a horror movie,
It’s an ogre, tribal hatred out to accrue,
Dangerously taking root among us.

Fertile fields have turned into abattoirs,
Pretty lands littered by abandoned homes,
The people always on their heels, no peace,
In sorrow I can’t hold back my tears.

Growing are the passions to fight among tribes,
Tensed nights, the daylights promising the same,
The worst hit, usually women and children,
All these malevolence beats the purpose of life.

The causes of all these often branded inevitable,
Land, cattle, water conflicts, whatever it is,
Has sent us to the infinite dungeon of darkness,
What a pity that we’ll continue in disillusionment,

It begins with you, simply turn enmity into love,
Reverse the vengeance into forgiveness,
Change the suspicion and mistrust into trust,
Let’s cultivate gratitude towards our neighbours.

Healing these wounds will take a lifetime,
Filling the void left by victims, not that easy,
Talking about it provokes series of bitter memories,
Until we act, we’ll continue down deadly trenches.

But in every gloomy situation there’s hope,
Keeping tribalism at bay will steer us to tranquility,
Extending an olive branch to our neighbours,
For the darker the problems the brighter the solutions.

Danny

GENDER

Most of the time I thank God for being born a male, I have never imagined myself as a woman. It’s this mentality that when let out for the other gender to hear, triggers an outcry of male chauvinism in many societies, numerous movements formed supposedly to fight the ‘male ego’ that they usually claim to be targeting them. To some extent this is true; men despising women and always ready with ‘facts’ and scriptures to justify their actions, but somewhere along the way the fundamental objective is blown away by the wind of hatred and competition emanating from the women.

Always there to bear the brunt is the boy child in the society. They are considered privileged and elevated from their female counterparts especially when we look back at many of our societies. Boys were truly favoured compared to women since they were supposed to carry on the legacy of their fathers and take care of their paternal homes as opposed to girls who were to be married away, but they (boys) too have similar problems to contend with in today’s changing lifestyle therefore ignoring them just because they were historically preferred, is the biggest injustice I believe there is. This is one of the most sensitive topics in today’s society accorded less attention than it deserves.

Most African governments are accused of neglecting gender equity and empowerment of the girl child. In an overview, the gender inequity is so conspicuous in almost all the sectors thus the spirited campaign some dubbed ‘affirmative action’. One thing is so elusive from people’s view in this matter; it’s never suppression of the female, but mastery of the art of survival by the male, using whichever means to get there. The governments surrounded by guilt, start creating numerous unnecessary support for the women so that they are cast to others in good light but the problem never goes away, this shows that the problem is never the problem but a creation of non-issues by ourselves.

Women will find it easy to hide behind historical injustices-if I may call them so. But this will not help in changing anything. Societies have changed and are still changing, in fact drastically, what brings the difference is how one strives to fit into the system. Women are known for their resilience and if they could just channel this precious virtue towards appropriate goals, then they won’t be blaming anyone. The world is a free ‘market’ where contention with other players in the sector defines one’s success or failure, male or female.

A number of women have realized this and are making men sweat and that is the idea; fair play. The number of women in the initially male dominated sectors is increasing from the not so appealing jua kali sector to banking halls and engineering all over the world. If only all the women could see this as a break they badly needed, then there would be no noise about gender equity. In the current economic turmoil in the world and especially here in Kenya, both boys and girls feel the pinch of either not going to school due to hunger or just utter poverty.

The women and proponents of gender equity should realize that depending on history for freebies is an idea passed with time and will only lag them behind in the achievement of this much touted issue. All they should spend all their time on if at all they need to is empowerment and encouragement of the presumably disoriented women and girls to take on their male counterparts in fighting it out with life. The soul reason of having your life is living it failure to which you bear the responsibility alone, with no one anywhere to blame. There is a lot of sense in this saying- a man (referring to the whole mankind) is in charge of his own destiny. Make it count.

Danny

JUST A MAN

Sometime long ago I was born,
Thank God this far I've come,
Always trying to get things done,
Though sometimes I end up torn,
Fallen, dejected and drowned,
But He freshens me up every morn,
Since truly I can't on my own,
I thank Him again and again,
For I'm just a man and son,
His love brightens up my day like sun.

TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL JACKSON

Dark smoke of sadness hovering about,
The world in agony over a star’s demise,
A legend, we believe is living bows out,
Tears everywhere around the globe,
In a universe he musically conquered,
Breathe taking hits he constantly delivered,
Will we ever have another like him?
No! We’ll never, the gap too big to fill,
So immortal through music he is,
Simmering down our hearts in peace,
But he stated clearly before in earnest,
‘But I’m only human’ or it’s ‘human nature.’
Enduring an abnormal childhood,
Gloomy and poignant for a musical god,
A heartrending upbringing by his own people,
But he chose to forget and rock our world,
The thrill that made the world scream,
So vibrant in public and on stage,
But a disturbed soul in seclusion,
Always asking, ‘will you be there’,
He gave us all he could offer,
Strived to heal the world and make it better,
Reminding us often that we are not alone,
I’ve been wondering how you ever did it,
Then I realized you just ‘beat it!’
From all corners even to the environment,
Minding it in the famous ‘earth song,’
And even the life saving USA for Africa,
What else could we ask from you?
You taught us that we are the world,
And expect no one but us to make a change,
Tears flowing down my cheeks in sorrow,
Making me unable to continue,
I try but I can’t put these feelings in words,
But in heart we’ll always be together,
In a way we only understand,
Until we meet again in His presence.
RIP Michael Jackson

Danny

FOR MUM

In my world you are the one,
She who made me who I am,
Though not always was it fun,
But for me you got things done,
Protecting me always from harm,
Ever by my side like none,
Physically or mostly in mind,
Entwined by love into one.
Upon sorrows you are never away,
Consoling me in the best ways,
Encouragement brightening up my day,
Keeping all the worries for me at bay,
May God forever favour you I pray.
For you deserve not less than appreciation,
That wonderful and worthy recognition,
Not just a day of lavish attention,
And a year of disregard and abandon.
For you mum I’ll always be loyal,
With you I’ll forever stand tall,
In support I’ll never let you fall,
As I hope that we’ll be one in soul,
At the ultimate summon of the Almighty,
In the Celtic winds of eternity.

Danny

FOR MUM

In my world you are the one,
She who made me who I am,
Though not always was it fun,
But for me you got things done,
Protecting me always from harm,
Ever by my side like none,
Physically or mostly in mind,
Entwined by love into one.
Upon sorrows you are never away,
Consoling me in the best ways,
Encouragement brightening up my day,
Keeping all the worries for me at bay,
May God forever favour you I pray.
For you deserve not less than appreciation,
That wonderful and worthy recognition,
Not just a day of lavish attention,
And a year of disregard and abandon.
For you mum I’ll always be loyal,
With you I’ll forever stand tall,
In support I’ll never let you fall,
As I hope that we’ll be one in soul,
At the ultimate summon of the Almighty,
In the Celtic winds of eternity.

WET ISSUE OF THE MAU

Water constitutes a very important part of human life from the body itself to the composition of the universe as a whole. Everything done in life involves water, drinking, washing, manufacturing, the list is endless; this accentuates the risk that we can be at when constant availability of this precious commodity is messed up with. It’s so sad that we are swiftly sliding down to this dreaded problem as a country and our options of arresting the situation are running out fast.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that everything that involves politics is bound to fail; this is entirely because of the acute egocentrism among our political class that blinds them from the interest of the common man. The current situation at Mau forest stresses this as one way politicians can completely change very sensitive issues to cheap games of gaining political mileage in the pretence of defending their constituents.

Being one of the biggest water towers in east central Africa and also the largest indigenous forest in Africa; Mau catchment’s collapse would spell doom for the people living in this part of the world and also affect the world in all aspects of life. Looking at the lakes it feeds with water drying up is painful that every human being with a soul would be interesting in intervening, but this seems like a distant normalcy for it is when deforestation is rife here, residents hiding behind another hot issue; poverty always asking ‘how do we survive?’

To some extent this is true, they do this for their survival, encroaching into the forest and cutting down trees to meet their economic needs. This is because help comes from nowhere else; little do they know that their simple acts of survival impacts massively on the survival of humanity in this part of the world. Sensitization being done currently is not giving forth any positives since the politicians are busy negating the worthy efforts, bedeviling the proponents of it. This is the major stumbling block to Mau’s reclamation: lack of understanding.

Watching documentaries on how lakes and rivers are drying up, spread of desertification, change I weather patterns…is nothing more than entertainment, tingling our emotions and sparking criticisms for those involved, but we forget that the responsibility lies squarely on us: everyone to protect and sustain the natural resources we have. Those who live in the forest may not be understanding hat they are creating crises because the genuine ones grew up in these habitats, living in harmony with nature, taking from it and giving back, the Ogiek being the exact example. The infiltrated interests have watered down the integrity that once existed.

Politicians are using these people to gratify their ego, the used so naïve to realize that they are just stepping stones to prosperity for a few gluttons. This is turning us all into despots, environmental in nature, just for the simple reason of not doing enough. We see all these happening and we think the effects are too far away from us, not realizing hat it’s right at our doorsteps and on all our pathways. ‘We have all the reasons in the world for failing to do this but not a single excuse’. We are responsible for whatever happened, is happening or will happen.

Daniel Abwao

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I SEE

I see
I see the past,
Like it is the present,
Nostalgia hurt,
So does the fantasies.

I see
I see the children and women,
Gnawing in oblivion,
Bright future too distant,
Good old past forgotten.

I see
I see life harsh at large,
The world shrinking to wreckage,
Hopes so faint to urge,
Dreams so vague to comprehend.

I see
I see the soft breeze,
That which cant be felt,
But soon turns into a violent wind,
That which can even be heard.

I see
I see in her face a comfy,
Smile that was so elusive,
Finally twilight of hope,
Despair disappears deeper into horizon.

Danny

A COUNTRY

A country, a nation, a beautiful creation,
by Him, the Almighty in a wonderful fashion,
so unique that, not even the greatest in the world,
can fulfill the mission bestowed upon us with passion,
and love akin to the biblical dove, full of holiness,
but we decided to destroy in disdain the deep trust,
he developed in us daring even death in the face,
like we don’t care, oblivious of the aftermaths of our,
actions, so acrid and appalling to even accentuate
the magnitude, killing like we created death
and as if we don’t die but just deliver destruction,
to both guilty and good; who knows who is who
for we are warned never to judge or want revenge
on whoever war us.
The sun for the first time covered in soot,
so dark the smoke from the blameless beings
being burnt, others brutally beaten by who they consider,
caring neighbors, friends, spouses….the list lasts on
to even parents.
Surely are we really safe, not from them but
from our own conscience, mentality tainted
with blood and hatred, bitterness, superiority complex.
Let all look blankly into our lives and create no room
for negativity. LET’S LOVE.

Danny

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

(How many years ago) years ago on this day you came,
Pretty and charming ;( her name) was your name,
Joy and laughter; the bright day promised the same,
A life so lively and long, surpassing all pain,
Embers of your smile and love kept up the flame,
That of happiness, it drove all the sorrows away,
You are a blessing to us, we all say,
Making us cherish this life with you as always,
And celebrate with you this birthday.
Your presence enhances us in strength,
The influence you have, we can’t measure in length,
The gift you are to us…..unfathomable in depth,
So we know it is more than blowing candles,
Something bigger than cakes, parties and candies,
But a lot more of love so boundless,
This is what this day means in totality,
A gift that you are from the Almighty.

Danny

NATURE COUGHS, EARTH SHIVERS

Distant hurricane all so scary,
Blinding lightening, things going awry,
Sudden blast of thunderbolt, everyone into frenzy,
Subsequent flooding, sweeping all in a hurry…
Signs that the future is too blurry…
So dim that we can’t fathom the nature’s fury.
The anger it retaliates with, indeed scary,
But it’s us to blame for all the worries.

Not long ago the harmony was conspicuous,
Between man and nature the serenity was obvious,
All this time, he was just very curious,
Ignoring that any attempt would be perilous,
Only to fulfill his own ego.. gluttony,
So unfair he is to nature, we could say blasphemy.

And with all the vengeance, nature cares, not the least,
In bitterness it hits back in Herculean magnitude,
That which baffles all into shivers,
Yes, it does cause ripples among the arrogant,
Inconsiderate, discourteous and officious humanity,
Wallowing in their over assertive realms of despotism.

Not much is visible in the horizon,
Blocked my resultant foggy atmosphere,
The future too bleak and dull to promise sunshine,
The sky so clear n blue to promise rain,
The grounds dry and barren to even expect harvest,
Heat waves, cold spells, earthquakes, mudslides…
All in vengeful response to the malpractices.
We surely face a head plunge into the dungeon.

Danny

I'M COMING

I find it had to believe,
How much a heart hurts,
All the love I have I give,
But the result is quite not,
I spend years and years to grieve,
For a loss of love I so cherished,
I try much to at least thrive,
But the life and love threatens to part,
Inching further and further from reprieve,

Then I sight land on the horizon,
Finally hope from the sea of bitterness,
Waves taking me to her.. to love,
Mind full of passion, romance,
Sweet serenade to the one and only,
I now know…. never to leave,

Thickets of problems notwithstanding,
For without you I can’t live,
When I just reminisce the past,
Just like honeycombs in a hive,
So sweet to forget.
That’s all I can recollect,
May be I’m naive,
But deep down I know it,
It’s an everlasting love.

Danny

MY HEART ACHES

My heart aches since you left me,
When I recall how I was on my knee,
Begging you not to leave me,
My heart aches when I think about you.

I still don’t know why,
Please tell me why you went away,
Turning my bright world into grey,
It aches when you are not close by.

I miss the smile and the dimples,
The natural scent that was so simple,
The bites of love we used to nibble,
It aches how you faded away in ripples.

You have dominated my thoughts,
That I loved you, I have no doubts,
More to come I had lots,
It aches me that it was all to naught.

I hope one day you will know,
That to me you were special,
So special to me to let go,
I loved you, I still do.

I miss you.

Danny.

YOUR EYES

YOUR EYES

Your eyes reminds me,
Of where I once was,
It makes me feel,
That’s where I want to be.

It caresses me in the dark,
Fondles my heart to ecstasy,
Never turning it’s back,
Your eyes: makes me happy.

Eyebrows well trimmed,
The look so enticing,
But that doesn’t make me fond,
It’s the eyes; so exciting.

The lips, the dimples will suffice,
Erasing every frown,
But it’s all upon your eyes,
It’s whole on its own.

Danny