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806 · Aug 2019
the usual
Muiruri gathairu Aug 2019
you taught me how to laugh away my tears
gave me the courage to face my fears
when there was sorrow on my mind ,you could tell
picked me up when i fell
when i fell for you, i was glad to learn that it was mutual
you ask me what i want, a kiss on my forehead, the usual
322 · Nov 2018
00:23
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2018
To you I am like a clear pane on a window
Always close but ever overlooked
Your sight set on more precious yet distant things
When I think about it its true what I once read
The one you love and the one who loves you are never the same person
296 · Jul 2022
Jul, 2022
Muiruri gathairu Jul 2022
love is effortless, a leaf floating on the mild wind
love is the remedy, loneliness a deadly disease and you're the cure
love is water, in its absence you'd die of thirst
love is selfless, for you I would bleed
love is blind, it overlooks misteps and misdeeds
love is king, you're the ruler of my heart
love is light, a single smile and the darkness disappears
love is the universe, it's infinite
love is a hero, it rescues from deep despair
love is alien, out of this world
love is addictive, you're the drug that I fiend
love is music, it heals the soul
love is like a child, innocent and true
love is gravity, pulls you close each time you feel like flying away
love is a mystery, holmes couldn't solve it even if he tried
283 · Oct 2019
All I know
Muiruri gathairu Oct 2019
All I know about love is the pain
All I know about the blue sky is that sometimes clouds gather and it rains
I'd hoped that you'd cover me from the rain like an umbrella
The grief blows like a strong wind and am just an umbrella
In loneliness, I drink much wine and think of how it's made from grapes off the vine
Same slow song on repeat, music is beautiful and I think of how it's surely proof of the divine
I was only artificial, a porchlight compared to the sun
If forgetting is a line , can i go before my turn
279 · Feb 2022
Halt
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2022
Halt,  you can't proceed with no salt
Nobody's perfect, everybody got fault
Try to reach perfection and you find it's locked up in a vault
You can't proceed with no salt
You don't try too hard you just make mistakes by default
If you knew the real god is in you and is you, would you still kneel and exalt
Salt represents acceptance of ourselves and our nature
254 · Aug 2019
joy; the lack of it.
Muiruri gathairu Aug 2019
my heart is drowning in sorrow
no confidence to face tomorrow
the blue skies are gone
am aching down to the bone
on my mind thoughts of pain, rain
it's all in vain
hidden beneath this smile is gloom
withering flowers, no chance of a bloom
a rainbow in black and white
a bird with broken wings, no flight
243 · May 2019
Untitled
Muiruri gathairu May 2019
Nigwedete na ngoro yakwa yothe
All am saying is that I love her with all my heart
Wi muthaka ta muraika
All am saying is that she's as beautiful as an angel
236 · Dec 2018
Sunday pain
Muiruri gathairu Dec 2018
We've been here a thousand times
You down on your knees, begging me to take you back
And me kissing you saying its all okay
But last time was the last time
Wounds don't heal if you keep touching them
204 · Mar 2019
Memories
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2019
I often wonder if you'll remember me
When am no longer in sight
When am far away from this happy place
Will you remember the uncorruptible joy
And the tears
If you ever do remember the tears, don't forget the shoulder you leaned on
Oh the things I did just to see that smile back on your face
Remember the blinding colors , as vibrant as youth
And the music, heavenly
If ever there was proof of God it would be music
194 · Jan 2019
Star gazing
Muiruri gathairu Jan 2019
I now know for sure what I once suspected
Looking into a lover's eyes is like staring up at the constellations
Its like star gazing
180 · Nov 2018
Ooh
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2018
Ooh
Ooh ,, start off with the surprise flowers then we roll out the wine n light dinner,,, all candle lit off course,,, then a little bit later I kiss your neck,,, you know the rest,,, you're the best
168 · Aug 2018
Afterlife
Muiruri gathairu Aug 2018
I've had enough loss for a lifetime. When the pain is too much,i medicate,then I meditate. When my mind is clear ,I reminisce. I want to see you again, and so I make up heaven. I know eternal bliss is just a fairytale but I have hope. shine on my face once more yellow sun. Light the skies on yet another day of my boring little existence. For they only exist in my memory. If I die they die.
155 · Nov 2018
The void
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2018
I tried everything
Do this, don't do this
But they lied
None of it works
I might be gone a while but am always back soon enough
Maybe this is how god felt when none other existed but he
As lonely as a stone lying on the ocean bed
Watching everything drift by calmly
Nothing can fill the void
137 · Mar 2023
Chagua (choose)
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2023
Lazima uchoose, dooh ama doze
Lazima uchoose, respect alarm ama uisnooze
Lazima uchoose, ujitume ama ulose
Lazima uchoose, ujibuild au *****

Izi ndo vitu hamtaki kuambiwa, izi ndo the truth
Mnataka niseme life ni smooth but Leo siwasooth
Sherehe Sheria ndio inamaliza mayouth
Ukilewa vuguru, Hadi hunaga matooth


Daily unadial pedi ukidai Mali
Jipende buda na for sure utafika mbali
Imagine ukiwa diani ukiorder wali
Si lazima buy iyo jumu expe ati ju ni Kali

Picha ya Kenyatta Kwa walanje ndo unafaa kusaka
Jipe goals Ka Sancho, salah au saka
Mulla mob, nine lives Ka paka
Usijitreat Ka trash we si takataka

But anyway maisha ni yako
Chaguo ni lako
Ntaachia apo ju naskia mtu Kwa mlango
Am sure ni peng Fulani utoka pango
122 · Nov 2018
Face off
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2018
Let me see your face, your real face
Forget this lifeless mask the world has you wearing
I feel like it would be beautiful
119 · Mar 2019
Lucy, am home
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2019
Don't be cruel, give me a kiss  
Can't you see am dying for it
117 · Aug 2018
Only love can save me now
Muiruri gathairu Aug 2018
Far away from hope
God can't help you now
Like been buried deep under the cold unforgiving snow
Limbs numb, life seeping out

Far away from hope
Embracing despair like you would a lover
Like floating in space
Lungs heaving, life seeping out

Far away from hope
Finally accepting your fate
Like falling off a high place
Last prayers, life seeping out

Far away from hope
Fading into the unknown
Like drowning in a vast ocean
Never fight it, life seeping out

Far away from hope
A shadowy figure hovers
Like bleeding out on the floor
A glorious scene, life seeping out
114 · Jul 2022
Un titled
Muiruri gathairu Jul 2022
I like where this going
Feeling sky high like flying in a boeing
Love for who i am, no room to judge
**** the loneliness, it's a purge
This girl I love she be my queen
Make it be better than its ever been
My lifeline in this endless ocean, a raft
Naturally gifted at giving joy, maybe her craft
Mind-blowing like the monalisa, everypart of her be pure art
Eternally attracted to each and every part
112 · Nov 2022
x
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2022
x
Jesus once said love others as you love yourself
What happens when you don't even love yourself ?
107 · Jan 2020
Debris
Muiruri gathairu Jan 2020
I am the debris floating on calm waters wondering when the next storm will be
And when it does finally come like am sure it will
will I end up at the bottom of the sea
Or maybe a new day I will get to see
102 · Sep 2022
How did I get here?
Muiruri gathairu Sep 2022
How did I get here?
Was this always my pre-ordained destination?
I find myself amongst strangers
In common ,the angst in all our minds is major
I can see desparation and longing on their faces
Does the inherent need for company and companion bring us all together to such places?
We may all manage to bury our grief
But the efforts at suppression turn out to be brief
How did I get here?
This is the question I need desperately answered
Thoughts of days gone by ravaging my mind like a cancer
Some do it to remember ,others to forget
Eventually all end up upset
A temporary moment of false calm and consolation
These are the perks and privileges of self medication
100 · May 2019
Untitled 02
Muiruri gathairu May 2019
Despite my efforts there's nothing I can do about it really
One day my soul is destined to roam freely
Am sorry I couldn't love you dearly
Its a shame that only in the end can one see clearly
My one chance at love and I blew it
96 · Oct 2019
The media(21st century)
Muiruri gathairu Oct 2019
I get bored and I check my feed
There's a first world crisis somewhere in leeds
New bullet train in Tokyo, they praise it for it's speed
Some CEO resigns , he couldn't control his greed
Meanwhile more civilians continue to bleed
But in the polls the president is still gaining a lead
Money laundered with the help of some Swedes
Two weeks later they've all been freed
Stoners calling for the legalization of ****
Thunberg about to get a nobel for all her deeds
She says we should all plant more seeds
For now that's all the update I need
I go back to playing assasins creed
90 · Sep 2019
the remedy
Muiruri gathairu Sep 2019
my happiest days came not when i had no troubles but when i chose to ignore them
my fears ended not when i ignored them but when i chose to face them
89 · Nov 2022
Lows
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2022
I dug myself into a hole
I am now just a fraction of the whole
Everything slipping out of my control
Am a red alert if you're on danger patrol

I didn't see the signs
Should have quit the lines
As salty and bitter like brine
Aware it's my last supper but still I dine
Say it's sublime but nothing is fine
Need victory but defeat is mine
If I'm to forget, I'll need more than wine
Can't face this, it's as hard as swallowing a pine
Hate this moment like a moslem despises a swine
86 · Nov 2019
death
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2019
the softest touch could make me shutter
melt away, a hot knife through butter
i have this moments where i cant move or think
i have this moments where am on the brink
the weakest waves could bring me down like am a sand castle
my feet feel weak, wobbly, trying to walk on land when you're a sea turtle
my greatest fear happens to every living being
id still die even if i was a king
85 · Feb 2022
Q
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2022
Q
You heal my pain
With you I never feign
You consume me like a fire
Hold my hand and I would never tire
Whisper in my ear
And dispell all my foolish fears
Stitch up my countless tears
Wipe away my salty tears
84 · May 2020
Trials#1
Muiruri gathairu May 2020
Your love is the reverse forbidden fruit
The more bites I take, the harder it gets to leave eden
84 · Aug 2019
human, all too human
Muiruri gathairu Aug 2019
thought i didn't have it in me to feel again but to my surprise love is swimming to the top
you give me love and affection, filling my heart with hope
so much joy, i hardly notice that times are tough
its windy, its rainy, its cold but with you its warm enough
i pray the day never comes when i have to give you up
so that i see your face every morning i get up
84 · Jan 2020
Leave
Muiruri gathairu Jan 2020
Inseparable lovebirds since college
The road to your heart and you gave him passage
Finishing each other's sentences, you were speaking the same language
Remember breakfast in bed, toast and sausage
He was shy but finally built up the courage
And that's how you ended up in marriage
Didn't think you'd end up a hostage
Used to be love but now it feels like carnage
Your heart is bleeding, emotional damage
popping pills twice the dosage
And now your thinking of packing your luggage
Coz on your face you have a new bandage
You are strong without him ,you can manage
This is my message
Leave
83 · Nov 2022
Negative zone
Muiruri gathairu Nov 2022
the country was laden with corpses, carcasses and calamity
the streets were full of strife and suffering
hearts were burdened, backs were heavy with baggage
all hopes dead, all heads bowed down, all starry dreams denied,
every step treacherous, every eye ever tearful, every lip trembled
energy drained, envy reigned
demons and devils danced, demeaning and devoid of delight
83 · Mar 2023
Y
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2023
Y
Sites to behold
A time to be bold
Tales to be told
Mysteries to unfold
Calm and composed
Secret and undisclosed
Triumphant and unopposed
Unpretentious , truth overdosed
Broke away from the stranglehold
Blessings sevenfold
Beautiful moments foretold
Brass turns to gold
83 · Jul 2022
Hardest to love
Muiruri gathairu Jul 2022
Cut me off with a weak excuse
Am just longing for affection but you refuse
You throw me away, I have no use
You cut deep, you hurt and you bruise
Long for the days when it felt like a cruise
Let you inside and you use the access to abuse
Can't handle it and I burn up like a fuse
Dream of peace, you reject a truce
Anger and hate, that's all you produce
Think it can't get any worse yet lower levels you introduce
**** dry all my life juice
Search for joy still pain is what you want to induce
I'd say you wish the worst for me if I had to deduce
Hope for the very best, add it up pray you don't make it reduce
79 · Mar 2019
How deep is your love?
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2019
Wish I met you back when i had a brick game
But it's okay we chill for hours on the playstation
With you when there's sun and when the rain soaks the ground
Pray i never make you soak the pillow with your tears, I'll always be around
I love when we lie on the bed just talking, its ikea
I'll never miss a chance to show you that i care
When I approached you for the first time you ignored me, that's okay, stranger danger
But am glad I persisted, I lingered longer
I can hear the clock chime
I want to hold you for all of time
79 · Aug 2022
Steady
Muiruri gathairu Aug 2022
I let myself be bare
Open and exposed naked as the day I was born
All could see me yet I couldn't see myself
An open book all could read but none understood
One moment elation the next not in the mood
There cold and confused I stood
Staring at their faces
Some were seemingly sad some artificially happy some In-between but none content
All aloof and alone not one could connect
All dreading closing time for there was no one to go home to
Some in complete terror not even a home to go to
I have to admit that at times I felt scared too
I felt no glimmers of hope I saw no glimpses of light
Too weak to put up a fight
76 · Mar 2023
Why I do it
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2023
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because my culture demands it
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because if I don't my family and friends look at me funny
I don't do it because I want to
I do it for the fans
I don't do it because I want to
I do for the money and fame
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because that's the game and I'm just a player
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because that's how it has always been done
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because I don't want to be an outcast
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because deep down am afraid I'll be shunned
I don't do it because I want to
I do because I lack the will to change what I've become
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because we somehow decided collectively this is how it should be done
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because it seems better to part of the flock rather than the black sheep
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because they told me to never deviate from the plan
I don't do it because I want to
I do it because I was raised to never question
76 · Feb 2020
Siobhan
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2020
Before I met you I was dead inside like a mummy lying in its tomb
But you make me feel alive, brand new like a baby from a womb
Or a butterfly escaping it's cocoon
You give me hope, am like a flower about to bloom
Basking here in the warm glow of your love my heavy heart becomes light like a balloon
Suddenly I feel like I could float to the moon
Once again am carefree like a child watching cartoons
76 · May 2020
Trials#0
Muiruri gathairu May 2020
Late at night and am bored
Headphones on ,am tryna drown my idle mind in music
Am smiling thinking how good the day was
The lyrics start to sink deep
On most days I just want to fall asleep
My thoughts start to trip
Sometimes I feel majestic, like mighty waves rocking a ship
On occasion am unsure and afraid
wolves set loose upon sheep
it's clear the music ain't working
Guess it's back to counting sheep
76 · Jan 2020
Shower thoughts
Muiruri gathairu Jan 2020
All our gods are deaf and mute
They can't hear our prayers or maybe they do but choose not to answer
All my friends are strangers
Just people I pass time with but never really open up to
All my senses are numb
Addicted to social media, forget about thin white lines
All my bones are brittle
I will run to you even if I break each and every one
All boys are the same
But you'd be surprised the lengths she'd go to, to impress a **** who doesn't deserve her
All control is just an illusion
So maybe just let go and go with the flow
All my best days are ahead
One day I will die but each day before that I will live
74 · Apr 2020
Same difference
Muiruri gathairu Apr 2020
There's no one like you around
I still can't get you
Same difference
Red is for danger
Green is good, good to go
Am color blind, same difference
He's got too much to see
And he's hopelessly blind
I wanna say same difference
He's selfish and we were made in his image
He never answers when I pray
Same difference
She can't samba
I have two left feet
Same difference
Call it euthanasia
And I have no reason to live
Same difference
74 · Feb 2020
Pride before a fall
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2020
Broken bones and fractures
Bent crumbling structures
Crawling hellish monsters
Hungry circling vultures
He never foresaw this rupture

The blood in his veins becomes venomous
Vehemently vicious and villainous
Vivid visions of violent vivisections
Vincent is extremely livid
Once virtuous as a ******
Once vainglorious but now just vestigial
Everything vast turns vaporous
74 · Jan 2021
Thank you note
Muiruri gathairu Jan 2021
My head is clear , you helped me make all the toxic thoughts retreat
I was at the lowest point but still you asked me to smile and your impact was I remained intact
I shed off that ever clinging pain and self loathe
You opened my eyes to finally see my worth
You made me feel good , you were and still are my soul food
When I only hoped for a raft you became my boat
Please accept this thank you note
71 · May 2020
Trials#3
Muiruri gathairu May 2020
A bed poem
Something I write as it pours outside
Something I write as I think of what it's like to not be alone
Wishing you were by my side

A bed poem
Something i write when the night is quiet
Something I write as I stare into the photograph
Longing for the good old days, my mind drowning in nolstagia

A bed poem
Something I write as I try to guess what I'll dream about
Something I write when in my heart something is lacking
Don't know how I got here, I must've been lucky

A bed poem
Something I write because you only call occasionally
Something I write because poetry is a good mode of expression
And am not ready to open up to anyone
71 · Feb 2021
Untitled
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2021
You are a goddess
You had me the moment we met, I confess
And it's not just because of all the heavenly features you possess
I'd say you're out of my league if I had to guess
Never thought you'd show up when I gave you my address
You alleviate my stress with each second we caress
You're my refuge every time am in distress
70 · Feb 2022
God Please
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2022
My skin itches like bites from fleas
Can't be me, every time I find me I flee
I try too much to please
God please
I know the truth frees
And cold make everything freeze
God please
I want to own all that I currently lease
I hope it's frictionless like grease
Can I have it all or is it all just an elaborate tease
69 · Feb 2020
God the poet
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2020
If God was a poet he'd write about his feelings
About how for the longest time he felt lonely
All alone in the fabric of time and space
Nobody to share his days with

If God was a poet he'd write about his immortality
About how he's destined to never die
For him that day is never coming
To him maybe it feels like a curse

If God was a poet he'd write about death
About all the carcasses and corpses
He won't do a thing about it
He understands that part of the journey is the end

If God was a poet he'd write about love
How two random strangers come to be inseparable
One feeling he/she cant be without the other
But the purest love he'd say comes from a mother
69 · Feb 2020
Better
Muiruri gathairu Feb 2020
Am jumping off a cliff and hoping that before I hit the ground I'll learn to fly
Am avoiding airports, I love planes but I just hate saying goodbye
Am trying to stay awake, I love sleep but I fear the nightmares
Am hoping the sun won't come up because the light will expose all my flaws
Am wearing all the newest clothes but inside am hollow and plastic like a mannequin
Am trying to bring back that smile and sunshine I had before it turned sour
Am working to be the angel I once was before I fell from glory
68 · Sep 2020
Oasis
Muiruri gathairu Sep 2020
I've waited for your love like parched ground waits for rain
Only your kisses can quench these thirsty lips
I've longed for your love like a weary soldier longs for his home
Your smile made my dying heart joyous, and its once again brimming with life
I live for you like a pirate lives for gold and for the sea
You are my oasis in this vast desert that is life
68 · Jan 2021
Untitled
Muiruri gathairu Jan 2021
I can see through you
I can see through your lies
Most importantly, I can see through your half truths and false promises
I can see through your flattering words and your false charm
I can see that I have been stupid to believe a word you said
I can see now that it was all just an elaborate facade
I can see you were just a foe carefully disguised as a friend
I can see it was all air and vapour masquerading as tangible matter
I can see that it was all theatre , a fool I was to think it was factual
I can see that I thought I could see but in reality I was blind
I can see that it was just a well crafted illusion
I can see that all you brought me was confusion
I can see that I was subject to your unprompted rejection
I can see that you were never willing to alleviate my dejection
I can see that I would never be part of your selection
66 · May 2020
Trials#2
Muiruri gathairu May 2020
After you left my blood turned to mercury and I was too heavy to move
After you left they did an x-ray and the doctor said my heart looked rattled up
After you left tiny waterfalls appeared right under my eyes
After you left my favourite song sounded like the screams of a siren
After you left my mind went blank and words turned to symbols with no meaning
After you left sadness ruled the night and sorrow seized the day
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