God Swept Nairobi Poem by David N. Munene

Yesterday in my alibi
God swept Nairobi
Walking from work
On pavements where papers stuck
Obliviously dropping one too
On the Earth beneath the sky so blue

She too with me dropped
She had a chewing gum unwrapped
God must have had enough
As we foolishly at our peril made a laugh

The omnipotent changed blue to black
Before we had a clue it was dark!
His anger in the thunder roared
His presence in the lightening shimmered
Like desert sands in hot sun simmered

I saw the paper fly
Soaring so very high
Into the office I had cleaned
On my bosses desk it leaned
God must have thought,
'Spotless office, filthy street? '

Never saw his broom
As the wings of winds went vroom
Tucking the sands from
Koinange to Biashara street
Never saw His hand in the pit
Whe' He the garbage slept

Sprinklers from Heaven - on
Began to the tarmac adorn
'ore we got shelter,
Or put on a sweater,
As ev'ryone ran helter skelter,

God swept Nairobi