PRISTINE PARADISE

 

CLASS 1038 J

Welcome to our pristine paradise

This paradise that we pride ourselves on

Self-reliant, self sufficient

Courtesy of you, and you

And myself

Playing our part

Diligently delivering out taxes

To the Kenya Revenue Authority

 

Thanks to you,

This pristine paradise

Glitters and glimmers for all to see,

Smooth service delivery,

Free primary and

Subsidized secondary education,

Improved medical services

Improved infrastructure

A land full luster

Projects built for our posterity

With the help of the reliable

Kenya revenue authority

 

This pristine paradise

Shines and shimmers

For you who plays your role

For you who honestly,

Willingly, diligently remit your taxes

For you who dutifully clears your debt

For you who declare your incomes

For you that file your taxes on time

And for this we thank you

 

This pristine paradise

Owes its glow to all,

The small and medium enterprise

Remitting turnover tax -

Helping us aim for the skies-

Paying your presumptive taxes

That is 15 percent

Of the business license,

Building our financial stamina

Polishing our beautiful patina

This too belongs to you.

 

We take pride-

Sovereign pride-

In our pristine paradise

Free of donor restrictions

And unfair conditions,

We stand firm in our assured security

Trusting in our partners

With indelible integrity

And trusted ability

To stand on our own stability

 

This pristine paradise

Our pride and joy,

Our personal heaven

Stands tall because of you

So we thank you

And ask you stay true

And pay your taxes when they are due.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOLD ME

 I don't want to held

like you would never let me go

 for we both know 

that time will come and make it so

hold me like a lost soul

who's almost found his way home

not too tightly

not too close

For when daylight comes

I have a long road to trudge

I don't want to be held 

for dear life

for those who called me 

Dear,

discarded me 

when their need was done

and their want was met

Hold me loosely,

so that it won't hurt

When you lose me

I don't want to be held too long

that I might think I belong

for  we both know that would be wrong

for circumstances won't keep me long

hold me like a wisp in the night

the kind that vanishes by light

the kind whose faint memories fade

when you focus on what is your life 

 

We were never here

                              I leave a path of pain

In my wake

 Pain I cannot erase 

Or grab and take

With me to my grave

Nor wash away

Then I find only one remedy

Erase myself

From reality and memory

That you may be unburdened 

Don't be weary with the burden of my soul 

I was never here

You were never here

We were never here

The pain and I, 

We are both gone

…

We were never here

Farewell

 We started it wrong

This I know you know,

Still I held on,

Clung to your hope, 

Fleeting and flimsy as it was

It's a wonder

It took so long

I realize now, 

I know you do too,

We had nothing in common,

Nothing to stand on, 

Other than our thirsty hearts

And throbbing flesh

It was a dear dream

Now daylight has come,

And I have to leave

The feeling was warm

But one I have to cleave

The memories are sore

From mistakes I made

Though I will see you again

It will be with a heart in pain

And the shift from friends

To strangers betrayed

A reminder of bonds 

We thought so strong

Yet so false.

caught in between

Funny how we lose ourselves

Chasing between who we are

And who we want to be

Losing touch with what we love

Forgetting the favour in what we have

Then we reminisce

And get caught in the struggle

Between re-emerging and reimagining

Our present rediscovery

 

Then we fight with the image

Of past patterns and present habits

Merging into a being to love and hate

In equal measure

Caught up in the past and present

trudging towards the future