Ngahikio Ndenda Pris!
Waruguru Wa Kiai
Is it Sunday yet?
What rest day? I have found no rest!
Watching Sarah Hassan sweetly mocking me,
reminding me that am no honorable woman!
That am still Idle,
heart for sale –wholesale- in the love market,
beautiful but…
Of ripe child bearing hips but…
But what! Is torment rest?
And the Scenes
The brides looking white-but they are not even pretty! How do they breath in those nets?
Painted red-scrubbed like Fine China
And the Men –those Blind Mice!
Only Blindness is justified in failing to notice me!
Me- Nyeri County Top Layer, ha!
Me-who has inspired renowned singers from overseas and middle seas to confess;
“Njukite giuragiriria ii kwa nyina wa Ruguru
Kairitu Kairu gacheke, ii na njuiri ta ya forana…”
Sunday,
reminding me that am yet to-
wear china nets, plant on my head-Brazilian hair,
paint blood on my lips, crack smiles the whole day,
borrow from equity, eat calories,
drink bubbles,and dance to Dennis Mutara’s ‘kindu wa mine’
My Clan has sent a message to my mother, warning as thus;
“Tell her, we no longer speak; we have gone mute from rehearsing all ‘ruracio’ songs,
We have strained our necks, because of watching the gates-waiting for a sign,
The men have bought new shoes; the women have bought ‘lessos’ and planted weaves,
And the village elders have booked six ‘2nk sacco box matatus’
To witness me publicly confess on my intention to waste away- happily, with one man,
Tell her that we have prayed to the Ngai of ‘Kirinyaga, kia njahi, na kia biruiru’
Pleading for a Man-any Man- to wipe away the clan tears and imminent shame,
That the elders have concluded their verdict, exposing that their daughter (me)
Walks with her nose in the air, swinging back and forth
Speaking the white man’s language,
Swinging her fingers at kamau – the only man willing to save the clan from shame,
Tell her we are not getting younger,
Tell her the gods are not eating maize,
Neither are they asleep!”
Tell her that the gods will appear to her in the form of Samantha bridal, wedding show,
Even in Bailey’s weddings, even through Kafogo! until she marries,
The elders have spoken!”
Serkal tafadhali…
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