I Will Keep Waiting



Many,
I have eyed,
Demolished
By moving machines
And wished it were me.

Uncountable,
Are narrow escapes
That I've had
From waves
That came forth
To swallow me whole.

I keep it at bay
Upon eyeing
Haunting images
Of a fatherless boy
With memories etched
Beneath my inborn helmet
Of my fatherless childhood.

Pressing
On the backspace key
Of my throb's keyboard
Would render my pie
A dadless one
And would be unfair.

I know
With unwavering certainty 
That in a day
Which awaits,
The Grim Reaper
Carrying with him
My salvation
Will accord me
The tranquility
Forgotten by my soul.

So I will keep waiting
For my savior
Who will deliver me
From my existence
Punctuated with drama.

Since my ladhood
I have survived
A nest of wasps.
The same befell
During my teenage years.
I fled away
From this nest
And found myself
In an identical one
Bearing wasps
Of a different breed.

Now, I'm a vagabond
Finding solace
Next to bins
Where rodents
Pay visits
As if aware of the void
Inhabiting my soul.
In these streets
I find refuge.

Being a vagabond
And being hooked
Inking poems
Inside these dens,
I listen
To the soothing music
Of crickets at midnight
Hoping
That they’ll lure me
Into the vast sea
Of slumber
That I yearn for.

I fight
With my fists clenched
And burning impatience
As I wait
For that fateful day
when I will bid farewell
To my entire biology.

To exit
This cocoon
Is something I seek
But shall I rob
My only pie
Of the only father
That he owns?

So I keep by my side
Some good kush
And some good pages
As I wait
For my rescue.

There once was a man,
Riding on a bike,
Whom I eyed
Swept away
By a large truck.
The matatu driver
Stopped for a while,
For us to view
His lifeless ruins.
They said
The driver did a mistake.
Why
Wouldn't I encounter
Such a mistake?
Well, something whispered
That a day awaits
When my mistake leans in.

Why
Do they do Kung Fu
On their deathbeds?
What do they cling on?
And why?
Shouldn't it
Be a day I dance
Like a candle flame
Outside in the wind?

Written somewhere around 2023.

© Sea-Crab Poetry.
(Voyager of Words)


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