Today, the cowards in power didn’t know exactly what to do when the courageous youth they’ve hired as new interns assured them that they’d keep confidential only the good deeds of the Government of Kenya. They assured the power honchos that they’ll be working for, and learning from their time with the diverse public institutionsContinue reading “Brave Citizens Governed by Cowards”
Author Archives: Nduko
It’s Good that Patriarchy is Losing
It has already lost one of its testicles. And all its arguments. And the ground upon which it’s anchored shifting fast, disappearing never to return. It has no option but to transform and disappear. Otherwise the days of the remaining testicle are also numbered. It took millennia to crush and throw away the right testicleContinue reading “It’s Good that Patriarchy is Losing”
Who knew?
I saw as I had seen instantly that everyone knew everything about the same thing in ways that everyone else of them didn’t know anything about on the same thing that everyone of them thought they had known in the same way
A Kenyan Revolution? We Must Wait Longer. Unfortunately
What is common in all revolutions is the existence of threats to citizen’s dignity and humanity and the willingness of citizens, in their numbers, to do something about it. Not blueprints, nor clarity on steps and milestones; nor any definitive leadership; nor hard consensus about how the revolution’s results could look like. It’s fury first,Continue reading “A Kenyan Revolution? We Must Wait Longer. Unfortunately”
That Night
That night when we found love from our wounds The night when our tears birthed hope Under the yellow moon that gently lit that pond The pond into which we held and tossed in a pebble together From one little rupture on the soft silky golden waters I remember the ripples that formed and spreadContinue reading “That Night”
Rain Therapy
Today it rained heavily my end of the city. Looking outside I marveled at the nourished raindrops. A sense of nostalgia about the rainy days of my childhood set in and quickly overwhelmed me. I wanted that downpour on me. And it was urgent. So I decided to get out, embrace the rain, kiss it,Continue reading “Rain Therapy”
A dream and a fight
In my dream I felt a sharp itch on the side of my rib cage. When I reached to scratch I noticed the source was a wormlike lifeless creature that was leisurely snacking away on my skin. A painless uncomfortable sensation is what I felt, spreading from the surface of my skin, inwards and sidewaysContinue reading “A dream and a fight”
In Your Eyes
In your eyes I have seen the universe Its dazzling brightness and sombre gaze Its good and its bad All woven in one A tidy messy roll Deep in your eyes I’ve seen the universe Its threesome of black, white and grey And soothing music and drunken growls And caressing whispers and stinging rage AllContinue reading “In Your Eyes”
Not a bird. Not a worm
My resistance to tuck in early is directly proportional to my easiness to tuck in until I’m fully sleep satiated. Unless there’s an emergency. The fear and pain of sometimes having to wake up unnecessarily early because a market designed by slavers said so is something I don’t quite easily get over for a longContinue reading “Not a bird. Not a worm”
Who Knows?
who knows? the secret of the mystery of your life could be a lonely sand particle in the desert’s expanse why do you fear getting out to go try find it? who knows? the answers you seek may be tucked in the ocean’s wave? rushing to the shores as if to be in time toContinue reading “Who Knows?”
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