Simba sleeps tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUvo6vrIzkg

MP So Sly! (Trust but verify)

We thought that he was a bright and tough guy

So we voted him in to the kitchen of national pie

Then he turned greedy and parasitic like a louse fly

He hastily ate everything leaving plates bone dry

On the new parliament sofa seat with a loose tie

Mouth opened, cloud of sleep in his heavy eyes

It is like the speaker is singing a lullaby

His tempting promises he failed to gratify

His failures he confidently tried to justify

In the streets we started singing our battle cry

“Haki yetu, haki yetu, tunataka haki yetu”

When we stood up to him and asked why

He did not get done all that he promised to do

Covering his lies with more lies he testified

Our determined thoughts he then petrified

That our united minds could not even identify

What to believe or what to nullify

-Edwin Onyango

Death of a King

The sun went down with the smile on her face

And the moon rose with tears in place

The night was filled with wails of death

Her loved one had cut short his breath

Her fragile heart so empty and hollow

Her swollen eyes soaked with sorrow

The painful news traveled faster

Everyone was struck by the disaster

The entire village was saddened by their loss

On their foreheads they painted a sign of a cross

To the gods of their forefathers they asked for grace

And strength to bare the loss they could not efface

To Atieno he was the best husband she could ever ask for

To his children he was the best father they will always adore

To the villagers he was the best leader, a king they looked up to

As he took his journey to meet his maker

May he find a sit by the gods for his loving nature

They called for the spirits from east to west

And they prayed as he was laid to rest

-Edwin Onyango

A plea for redemption

I keep sinking in the ocean of pain

I keep drowning in the river of the same

I keep thinking that I will float again

I keep walking in the showers of blood rain

I keep trying to quench the blazing red flame

But I keep burning.  My tears rain in vain

I keep trailing to the end of a tunnel of shame

I keep hoping that the light at the end isn’t a train

But I am getting hit for my hopes are lame

I keep hearing mysterious voices in my sleep

Hands keep pulling me into darkness so deep

For my tormented soul in agony I weep

I keep praying to the spirits from the world beyond

I keep wishing and pleading with them to respond

To my cries and pull me out of this haunted pond 

-Edwin Onyango

Deadly Beauty

Laughs like a princess
Smiles like a goddess
Speaks like an angel, voice I can not ignore
I know her words are cancerous, but still adore
Her big blue am-sorry-cat eyes makes my blood run cold
With her silky hair flowing on her back like liquid gold
Deep thirsty kisses of poison
Drunk with her dark love potion
She dragged me to eternal blackness
Caged me in the heart of darkness
There is no escaping from this black hole
She is hungry, yet to feed on my soul
Bleeding, my life is no longer mine
I'll soon be gone, just a matter of time

Her charming looks, her beauty kills
Like an overdose of Oxycontin pills

-Edwin Onyango

Nature's beauty/Naturally beautiful

Sitting down on a beautiful rock

My feet in the water I soak

Listening to the frogs croak

Beautiful birds chirping

Songs of love they are singing

Slender beams of sunlight through the trees

Whistling of the trees and buzzing of the bees

Music of tranquility for my ears

A worry of life in my head clears

Colorful butterflies on the other side

Beauty of their wings is their pride

From flower to flower they glide

From down the river she appears

A woman with a sheer beauty

Curl of her eye lashes

Beauty in her eyes flashes

From the fullness of her lips

To the curve of her hips

From the lovely sound of her voice

To the sassy twirling of her waist

Singing the classical tunes of her choice

And dancing the moves of a queen’s taste

Soaking in the view I closed my eyes for a while

To the birds, butterflies, trees, flowers…

And to the woman, I gave the best of my smile

- Edwin Onyango

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFIP0b8nacI

Candle in the wind

As the sun dives beyond the horizon
The moon escapes from her prison
Dazzling rays of daylight last in the sky
The cold night falls with a silent sigh
Night walkers says ciao
They are in control now
There was once light, now the night reigns with darkness
And somehow sorrow has found my point of weakness
Cascade of tears fall upon my darkened eyes
Dripping to the cold, uncaring tombstones
Sleeping beauty, sleeping but just bones
Sleeping beneath these cold stones
Her candle burned off two months ago
The dark wind blew away her shadow
Drowned in sadness, drowned in painful memories
Memories of what used to be my favorite love stories
I always thought she will be with me forever
I thought we will see our old days together
But for God knows why,
Now it is just me and loneliness in this graveyard

- Edwin Onyango