Uhondo wa Sanaa ya Ushairi na Kevin Wamalwa

He told me he fears nothing Looking at me without blinking And gave me so long a list Of things he fears not From the deep blackness of the night To the horrific steep of the deep He fears not the most terrible beast of the land For once he tore the lion by his bare hands He fears nothing Not to mention the leviathan he has seen not But, I fear ‘nothing’ more than anything More than what he has in his inventory Because nothing is something to fear When I think of its loud silence Loud enough to wake the dead The emptiness of nothing! The darkness of nothing! Oh, I fear nothing, than anything Oh that I will never meet it And be swallowed in its hollowness Where nothing really is Where the present and future meets And devour each other to nothingness You should fear ‘Nothing’   For in her embrace the sun halts its light And the budded roses blossom not And the beauty of the setting sun becomes gross When u don’t have ground beneath To old your feeble knees Neither heaven above overlook

Twas not time to die When I thought I would After falling in the snare of the sly And my affection such robbed When she played with my heart Twas not time to die When I sunk in despair When my world had crumbled And gone was the essence of life Could I cry enough of a tear? Could I brood enough in gloom? When the most tender The most delicate of my person Has been put on play!! My silence was so loud My wail was so silent I only, only I could understand The wordless speech of my heart And my ears could hear the message And the wisdom of the innermost That at the end of this all Is where the beginning lay Thus, I learnt to laugh in my tears I learnt to live in my dying. Is it not with death that we tell what life is Is it not with weakness that we define strength? Or with betrayal that we appreciate trust? And with hate that love stands out I learnt to wait, just a little longer Then my love will bloom again Twas time to learn life Twas not time to die yet!