Moses Kainwo

Out of sheer love
In the desert of love play
How can I say I love you
And go Scot-free
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God is my greatest Poet
Because
He nearly bursts my eardrums
When He drums the words
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Punches thrown for man and country
Punches gotten for man and woman
What they did we did in Amistad
Yes… punches… for women and children
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I am that child—Papa’s child.
With no home—Papa’s good as dead.
On bare feet—the only shoes I know,
And bare back—Mama’s gift of clothes.
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can you kill me

tear my flesh apart
smash my brain out
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Papa wore his hats in shades:
Black hat on black suit,
Brown hat on brown suit;
You name the suit,
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God protect me from myself
The cliff of my ignorance
Pretends joy beyond the edge
But I see the dangerous cracks
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Matatu time is vague;
So is the plane’s,
So is the train’s.
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From the crammed crypt to the script
A new sun has shone on me
It is the Son from Sonzone
And He says come work with me
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The colour of my heart
Is a culture round the fire
The spirit of my heart
Is netted dance in a sphere
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Once in
Some in you go in with you
Your self
Your family
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Your name in my pen is all that spells love,
Yet in that pain could be found a dodging dove.

In my pen there might be war-backing words,
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The Princess of my heart indeed
Lived in the heart of death
She cut a canal for fresh tears
And hit the eyes of sunlight
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1. each coronation song
hailed another moses
yet none was christened so
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The Lord is my Captain, I shall not drift.

He assigns me a quiet cabin,
Speaks to me through the sea shells,
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You stars that sell the gloomy late evening news
Willing harbingers!
Have declared untold sleeplessness
On the eternal legal instance of nature and time fleeting time
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I came I saw and was stoutly conquered
By a wounded river in its middle
That brutally awoke from the dead
Hearts beaten into rock and tough riddle
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Whether I stand longer on earth
Than sit in the tummies of birds
I might not guess as you proffer
Only scrutinise me on a trip
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Three tiers of noise
Caught me from the side

one from under the trailer
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