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EULOGY FOR OUR GIRLS

I see a flash

A sight to behold

The work of an immortal sculptor

Walking straight in elegant pride

Worth of a princess of the sun

Firmly transfixed in her twelve

Moving into the emptiness of an invalid society

Her innocence screaming

In an unchallenged clarity

 

And only twelve moons

The framework of her modeling salivates

Wolves in men

Who’s been exposed to the virus

Emerging from the bush land of their desires

To seek their vengeance in a fanatical hatred

And poor me the princess

With the *** lunacy roaming the streets,

Sanity of abstinence is the greatest challenge.

 

Swung from poverty to adolescence

A pendulum of fates

Hunger at home for the family

And her homestead a moonscape of desolation

The two hundred shillings does the trick

She trades out her innocence

And virginity too; a girls pride

And alongside the legal tender

Comes the virus

The minute monster

Savoring a society of huge minds.

 

There is the tuberculosis

In a hospital ward

Full of undug graves and shrines unnamed.

Drawn into the vacuum of her fate

Eyes wide open in dismal finality

The princess

Lie in freeze frame of death

A pyramid of events

Molded out of her last several terrible seconds

Lamentation for the society

A dull eulogy for our girls.

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Written by
stanley-mungai
Kenyan
Published
Jun 23, 2012
Lines·Words
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AIDS! The parasite feeding on the rotten end of our Morality.

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