Love As we knew it

Love should be like shadow follows you everywhere,dead or alive come rain come shine my shadow is with me. does not judge me, does not depart for favorable season to return, no hibernation when am bankrupt and no pretense when am success full. 

by -  -Sam Ngige-

Water

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

— Margaret Atwood-is a Canadian award-winning writer best known for her poetry, short-stories and novels such as The Circle Game, The Handmaid’s Tale, Snowbird and The Tent.. Source: Margaret Atwood. (2015). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 02:02, Jan 23, 2015, from http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-atwood-9191928.

The Sanctity of life- Africa we are on our Own!

The Sanctity of life- Africa we are on our Own

During my 21 days of fasting that ended on 22nd January 2015, I learnt a few lessons that seem to be obvious yet run so deep. First we are all human in body that traps our soul and imagination.  Secondly of more importance we must constantly seek to maintain the harmony between the body, mind and soul. Thirdly we cannot in certainty predict what will happen in the next second owing to the sophistication of our technology yet natural and man-made calamities strike at will any time anywhere. No guarantees.

With this in mind, surely human being is bended towards evil more than the truth. We tend to gravitate more to satisfy our egos and justify our position right or wrong. The New Year 2015 opened with shuttered dreams of many. In Nigeria, Boko Haram the terror Jihadist in West Africa mercilessly butchered over 2000 people. The accounts, reported by Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper, were given by villagers who fled the carnage in and around Baga, a town in Borno state that lies in the northeastern corner of Nigeria near the border with Chad. The killing unfolded over several days after Boko Haram fighters seized a key military base there on Jan. 3.

 In France a fiercely armed to the teeth terrorist brothers and associates swept through Paris in an orgy of killing in the name of ‘god’ leaving 17 dead and dozens wounded.

The manner in which the two events similar in nature were narrated and given prominence in media left a lot to be desired. While both were acts of  global terrorism, the world was more united in Paris than in Nigeria where 2000 lives were massacred. The question begs, how different is life lost in Africa compared to the other part of the world? The global community congregated in Paris and solidarity was shown across the Atlantic all the way to Rio. Other big cities  held demonstration in support of Paris while little or no support was shown to African brothers in Nigeria and previously elsewhere in Africa.  

Thousands have been killed through terrorism in Africa. There was the Kenya mall terrorism attack that claimed over 60 lives, hundreds were  injured in the attack. On 22nd November 2014, Al-Shabaab gunmen attacked a bus traveling from Mandera to Nairobi, killing 28 persons, mostly teachers and government workers heading to Nairobi for the December holidays. As if this is not enough on 2nd December 2014, Al-Shabaab militants attacked and killed a further 36 quarry workers, many of whom were non-Muslims, near Mandera Town. All this coordinated attacks were carried by Al-Shabaab terrorist group based Somalia that claimed responsibility. We did not see demonstrations in different parts of globe yet all of those killed in Kenya attacks alone were Christians. Kenya to Mali, Nigeria to Libya all in the name of religion? We haven’t seen demonstrations. That’s why I love God and fear religion. It is unfortunate and disheartening in my humble opinion that Africa has been by design or fate turned in battle zones and land of statistics from slavery, colonialism and now more ardent the neo-scramble for the remaining dwindling minerals and resources. Totally in disregard and respect of sanctity of life.

While it is a good gesture and of honor to show solidarity and support,  The manner in which it is selectively offered with gloves and blinks of an eye shows how the world despises anything African.   The wider global community other than Africa seems to suggest that it’s ‘ok’ thousand to die in Africa and not pay close attention than acts of similar nature but of ‘few ‘loss of life elsewhere. This is double standards. There is a Swahili saying“Akufukuzae hakwambiitoka”. He who evicts you does not ask you to move out, he evicts you. Africa we are on our own. 

By Njoroge wa Ngige. 012115.

Niuri -Key!

"Maitika"The poem 'Maitika' focuses on, hardships and success viewed through the narow prism of envy and unfounded Jealousy.

WHAT IF...

What if I woke up dead...?
I will not be dead...
I will have just woken up...
Woken up from life....
For I have been dead all this long.
Only one thing has remained.
My shadow dead or alive
Sunshine or storm
the only true friend 
Never leaves me , Never left me
remained the same,
In life and in death
never changes hues
colour blind or otherwise.
a mirror with no reflection
a reflection with no mirror.

I have died many times,
But I only live once,
I cannot die all day long ..
all season long...
I die only once,
in a split second,
lived a split life?
left like an echo,
I was here, yet am there.
I live every moment,
True to the givings of life
moment of finality, as if there is no if,
but what if I woke dead.,,,,?

I will wake up at a wedding reception 
A reception I attended recently
So I am still there...
I  pinching my self..
with a pinch of salt...
and "a grain of wheat"
where was I ....????
I forget...so that I will be remembered..to be forgotten
Now I remember..
At a wedding reception...
I recently attended,
Someone said " Can all the married men,
Yes you heard me clearly,
All the married!
Please Stand next to the person...
A person who has made your life worth living.."
The Bartender was nearly crushed to death!!!


At this point ,Once upon a time, 
Life asked Death..
Why do people hate you but love me?
Death responded promptly,
Because you are a Beautiful lie,
And I am a Painful Truth....

By Njoroge wa Ngige.......1/18/2015

Guoaya, Gwoya, Gwouya =Fear

Kumaka, Guchonoka, Kuinaina, Thoni,Kieha, Gwoya
Uturaga wina gwoya, ndwaciarirwo na guoya
Ukiigirira kumaka, Kuinaina na kuira Ngoro
Kinyiria kia Muturire, uturaga na minyiri
chirrririririririiri..ucho! kari onii mihutiriria
Njathimuraga thina, ngatumuka guthebea kwa maheni
Gwoya wa maria njuii, itoii ndiuii na ndiuii ndiuii

Kumaka na kuinaina ta mabebe matari mbembe
Thara wa ngombe kana mucharisha
Ngombe itari iria una ki, ng'u ni kumaka
Ukuhiokia minyiriri ya muturire , ta Nguno etinitie ndiiri
Ati ni kumaka uramaka, Uramaka wike atia?
Tundu wina gwoya uhana guoya

Ukahenio ni githatu nduma ithutha
tiga gucema cema muturire,
Mucemi akorire Mukungi, na niguo akungite
umukania ta waru ya ngorofu ii Nyandarua
Ndimakaga kwina mbaa kana ime!
wetemanie ta wacu e' mugunda
Gatumani mbegu ni njega unakwara, ukuhi tigana naguo
Uraihu ni Mwathani waria ni Kio giaku
Uturite umakiite, gukaura, gugakia,gukara gukaraha
Kumaka gwaku gutigochenjia mithenya
wagatano utuika wakana, Jumamwothi ituika kiumia
Kumaka gwaku kwa jumatatu nokuo kwa aramithi.

Ukihinyiririka mwiri, Kwinyogonda uriri
Ukaga toro niundu wa gwoya, gwoya utaramenya
mbere kana thutha, Ugetungumania ja ta rutungu
Ukariganirwo Jakubu onake ari oho,
Akigia na kieha, Akimaka, Ikiaga toro
Indo ciake ciothe Igathira.
no ndagiire na gwoya wa muturiire,
Ikirihwo kindu na kingi ni kumiriria na witikia.

Uretua niwe githimi kia maundu
Mwathani ukamuiga keherini hugururuine, umuoye hindi ya thina
Ini riria wa batara, wanyitukio ni mucukani
Ndangikweherera, ndangigutiga tundu niakwendete
Heana iroto ciaku he Mwathani, tiga kumuhe itumi
Iga mwhihoko waku mbere ya mathabahu ma Ngai
Utige Kieha na Kuinaina.

By Njoroge Wa Ngige (January 03/2015)