I'm Not for You

If you're a pharisee

Who speaks to a handful 

And says out their creeds

With a loudness 

That surpasses that of the mouth

I'm not for you.

If you're a bigot

Who believes 

That everyone except them

Shall be destroyed–

Mindless

Of who was really a good soul–

Then you're unkind

And so I'm not for you.

If you value duplicity

And always judge 

Based on what's different 

From your school of thought–

Rebuking the rainbows,

Those who chose bachelorhood 

Or spinsterhood

Without the slightest regard

For reasons from their heart

Then I'm not for you.

If you don't care

For mother nature

And see her 

As your way to fill your wallet

Without caring

About how it makes Terra hell

For oncoming generations

Then we don't resonate.

If to you 

Me and mine

Matters more than the world 

I'm not for you.

If you have the audacity 

To arrogantly say

'This is Kenya'

It means you wanna leave her

In useless tatters

After seizing her innocence.

This way

I'm not for you.

If you go by what makes you safe 

Rather than what safeguards 

Your authenticity 

It means you're a windsock

That points

In the direction of wind.

It means that coexisting with you 

Will earn me

A title 'the bad one'

Because you'll be there

Proving our oppressor right 

With your unrelenting silly obedience.

This way,

I'm not for you.

If you graduated

From a school 

That used to teach

That it's all about the pennies 

It means that you're confining life

Into a narrow material purpose.

If it's not about legacy 

Then I'm not for you.

If you shower 

Those with papers

With praises

And demean

What the 'illiterate' have known 

All by themselves

It means you know not

What it means to be human.

And so this way 

I'm not for you.

© Sea-Crab Poetry

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