SHIDA BY DAPPER THE POET from Kenya
Click here to see more of dappers poems Our own society deceived the reality of our inner sanctum the vices we preached against have today become our daily dose See back in my home village a bicycle was regarded prestigious but now youths are up in machetes demanding they be given community land, so they can buy motorbikes not to do bodaboda and improve there live but impress the sexworkers in the bars in my home village Shida is the last born of a family of seven four boys and three girls His first born brother onyi is a class seven dropout a muscular dystrophy who is dwayne Johnson bodied, his other two brothers joined hands to claim the community land The father being polygamous married two wives he claimed the cold was too much and he couldn't withstand a cold bath anymore so this younger wife was to one boil him bathing water and two be his comfort The mzee back then was the richest man in the entire village, he would be compared to... Of today, h...