Simon Odhiambo Poems

Hands off, Controversial
Urgency and common purpose
Satisfaction
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I was once told
That a secret is mine alone
And I agreed to keep this a secret
Until yesterday...I heard someone shout it in a meeting
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A thief and a night-runner
At night in a foreign home
This caused a total fuss
As they ran from each others wrath
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I knew it all along
From the way you would advance
I threw it all alone
When you gave me the dancing chance
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Of thugs and guns you've no fear
Of snakes and fakes you can bear
Poetry is beyond you so you claim
It is the only chill down the spine
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Three bodies,
one, two, three
All dead, by this road
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We are all taken, you and I
They were all broken, your heart and mine
They are always meeting, your eyes and mine
Are this signs deceiving, we still doubt
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Unknown, lost and gone
We live in darkness
Green buidings for green trees
Clear roads for clear rivers
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A card to show and a name to share
I am a member

A meeting to attend and a sign below
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I sit here waiting to be called, and looking
At this sealed white envelope, and thinkng quietly
The contents already, I know well
I was told even before the letter got me
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