Simon Odhiambo

Am not alone in this I think
Three or Four of us sometimes Five
Waiting for letters to arrive in time
Letter box packed with lots, not ours
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One Poem at a time, Is what you can read
Try two and despair, that is where it will lead

One channel at a time, Is what you can watch
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Great writers, great poets
Of time now and those gone by
Hear me out, as I wail the pen
The burial, I will not attend
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What time is it?
Is a simple question to answer
A watch, a calendar or may be a clock
May help with the response
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Men should not cry, you told me mama
And I will not, but will shed just a tear
Just to feel how you felt, when your tears flowed
Your cheeks were always wet, I recall dear mother
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Is to pass away peacefully in my sleep
Just as my father did...
And not shouting for help like the folkes
He was carrying home that fateful night
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It is bedtime 'my half' and the vow still fresh

You promised to make me a bed
Of love and trust not metals and timber
Wide enough for two, in sorrow and bliss
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This man lost his paying job
And his wife left this drunkard too
His children not to stay with him
All left this dad alone
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Today I stand at this gate
With anticipation and want
I look down the only path
Your footprints still fresh
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I cry for men
I cry for them

For they said I erred,
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Hands off, Controversial
Urgency and common purpose
Satisfaction
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I was once told
That a secret is mine alone
And I agreed to keep this a secret
Until yesterday...I heard someone shout it in a meeting
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A thief and a night-runner
At night in a foreign home
This caused a total fuss
As they ran from each others wrath
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I knew it all along
From the way you would advance
I threw it all alone
When you gave me the dancing chance
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Of thugs and guns you've no fear
Of snakes and fakes you can bear
Poetry is beyond you so you claim
It is the only chill down the spine
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Three bodies,
one, two, three
All dead, by this road
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We are all taken, you and I
They were all broken, your heart and mine
They are always meeting, your eyes and mine
Are this signs deceiving, we still doubt
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Unknown, lost and gone
We live in darkness
Green buidings for green trees
Clear roads for clear rivers
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A card to show and a name to share
I am a member

A meeting to attend and a sign below
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I sit here waiting to be called, and looking
At this sealed white envelope, and thinkng quietly
The contents already, I know well
I was told even before the letter got me
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