Monday 7 October 2013

The City Under the Sun!



The City Under the Sun!

In the city under the sun they all meet the sons
No doubter can be a daughter to this great city
For it is the faith and perseverance that gathers all
Of the nation’s people in their multiplicity of diversities
That life has to offer under the heat of the city's sun
The fun of the old golden days has all gone under
As the hustle to be hard has overtaken the loud
Persistent shouts of the sufferers to be heard
Everyone ever in hasty movements with no time
 To tattle as everyone longs transcend life’s tussles
To dodge the drowning ship of the dreaded poverty
To overcome the daily roaring beast of corruption
N’ meet the social responsibility of family provision

In the city under the sun they all meet the sons
No doubter can be a daughter to this great city
Every single morning the harsh transport sector awaits
In the hands of the matatu drivers who are ever drunk of
Unending passion to competition as their matatu touts
Celebrate watching the once existent traffic soberness flow
 Deep down the river of the city’s historical forgotten beauty
The traffic jam is like blood inside a fainted saint who longs
To restore it back to flow not for flows sake but to give back life
The longing to be at work in time every early morning n’get back
 Home early in the evening to be with family or friends is ever
 Seasoned with hot spiced stressful and uncalled for traffic jam
Bringing a feeling of deep helpless emotional torture to many

In the city under the sun they all meet the sons
No doubter can be a daughter to this great city
Life calls for more than any person would normally be in
 Willingness to offer sadly for the prize is never proportional
 To the hustle n’ the price that majority the people have to part
 With daily without any option but to painfully offer themselves
To the city’s scorching sun from above, below and the sides as
Everyone endeavors to be the fastest early bird and to be in time
To get at least a piece of the city’s bitter competitive worm while
The nature of life demanding everyone to walk faster, work harder
Leave earlier, speak louder, charger higher, spend more, chat lesser,
Sleep lesser, eat lesser, drink lesser, health lesser yet hardly anyone 
 Earns more in the fast moving, fast growing, traffic jammed Nairobi 

© Newton J G K 2013 

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