I REFUSE!

I refuse to be fed…

On tribal soups of jeers….. spiced with bitter herbs of sneers….

I refuse!

I refuse to be seduced…

By black lights of ethnic casinos…dancing to sarcastic songs of innuendos…

I refuse!

I refuse to be splashed…

With muddy waters of a tribal crater…dismissed as a non-human matter!

I refuse!

I refuse to be frozen….

By ice-cold waters from the Mountain…..sealing my every breathing fountain...

I refuse!

I refuse to be pricked…

By sharp fish-bones from the Lake…. Drugging my feet with chronic ache...

I refuse!

I refuse to munch…

Sandy sea-shells from the Coastal beach…baked in tongues slippery as leech...

I refuse!

I refuse to be crashed….

By fattened bulls from the Western…. left  buried in smoldering soils of North Eastern…

I refuse!

I refuse to be stabbed…..

By poisoned arrows of the Turkana…or left to die in thickets of Delta Tana

I refuse!

I refuse to give up…

My Integrity, identity or devotion to Allah…..for cheap political “Masala”

I refuse!

No…I refuse to spread...maggot-fed ethnicity!

Nimekataa….katakata!

Nimekataa kunaswa…… kunyanyaswa….kubaguliwa!

I agree...

To fight for diversity..

For the sake of humanity!

I refuse...to do nothing..

2013©Meshack Sewe

“Nimekataa katakata” A Kiswahili expression meaning I totally disagree

“Kunaswa”-a Kiswahili word meaning to be trapped

“Kunyanyaswa”-A Kiswahili word meaning to be mistreated

“Kubaguliwa”-A Kiswahili word meaning to be discriminated against.
"Allah"-Refers to God in Islam.

“Masala” –A Kiswahili word for a popular spice

Wrote this poem after I heard a youth from one Kenyan tribe referring to those from a different tribe as dogs…it broke my heart....ooh yes it did! It made me realize how we, and our leaders have failed to fight negative ethnicity.

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