My Ballot Paper Poem by Gerald Kithinji

My Ballot Paper



I have long waited
This sunny day
To chide myself

Should I cast for this clown-
Who with dripping mouth
Sang his electorate his ambitions?

Or this home-made angel
Who with wings of kites
Would myrrh his disciples?

And then again I wonder
Should the heavens rock
Who will restrain the storm?

So I take the little ballot
And with raging words
In verse expend my anguish!

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Take on 1974 Elections in Kenya
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