Still Waiting Poem by kelvin karani

Four decades

is not enough time

for this beautiful wife

to conceive a child.



Back in the sixties

We said ‘I do’

And other trivialities

For better or worse.



Night turned into day

Month into year

And my patience did stay

Strengthened at times by fear.



Like ten wise virgins

My lamp has enough oil

To light the valleys and plains

Of my prized fertile soil.



Three diviners now I have seen

All saying nothing is wrong

Old Sarah patient had been

Till she celebrated her son in song..



I would wait no doubt

Till this wife with sagging breasts

Brings forth a child

The joy of my old age.



My darling Kenya

Let us face the mountain

Praying for change together

Till night gives way to day.