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Ukombozi Review > Poetry > Night Runner
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Night Runner

Ruth Waruguru
Last updated: October 3, 2024 4:37 pm
Ruth Waruguru 11 months ago
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A crude man is at the helm;

Like a constant tension headache,

He’s tightened twine in his realm!

A people under siege;

We are being goaded like possessed pigs into their dug out ravine!

“The book will fit”, from the pulpit preach!

A malefic spirit hovers over us;

We wake with sunken eyes,

From the night’s long fuss!

Like a battered woman;

Bruised with a cultish look upon her face!

On a sandbox, a reflection of a people without a cushion!

The devil’s spawn took the rudder;

An unnatural sorrow floods our deck,

As he puts on a clock of wonder!

Backed by ordained conjurors;

A tale of bitter pools purified is span!

On a well stuffed buffer genuflects the plunderers!

Hyenas’ laughter invade our nights!

Pulling a farghun with a plagued being grinning at the starless sky,

Defecating in our backyard, from the prospect of cluttering teeth he delights!

A hollow heart with a sword;

Fanatically ceded to a war monger’s covetous paws!

Free to guilessly defecate in our front yard, HE IS THE LORD!

An emotional vampire pervades our days;

Sucking the life out of us in broad day light, 

A people wondering in a daze!

A stamp on unrestrained ableism;

Witches laughing to the skies oblivious of the simmering whispers!

A people deemed disabled tired of isolationism!

A night runner, is at the realm!

A nuisance stays up cackling at our restless nights,

He lifts his tail and sprays, marking “his realm”!

He ejaculates on our door posts;

Oh, not a mark of Passover but a weigh down mark!

He runs to the next door oblivious of what he provokes!

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