Kenya and the ICC

http://haririphiloikonyagasheri.blogspot.com/

Shattered

Kenya shatters herself in Somalia

 By Philo Ikonya

The eardrums of Salagle Town of Lower Juba in Somalia are shattered

Kenya kills her neighbour reducing 20 years of help to death

Abdi Kadir Ali has left for safety. Warplanes are the new sky

Kenya has moved into Somalia. Husbands are missing. Women

have had it with the weapon of rape unfailing in all wars.

Children die alone, weak and helpless, starved:

Africa's flag in the world.

Kismayo island.

Mekatilili wa Menza was imprisoned there as was Harry

Thuku and many others. We owe ourselves a dialogue not shells

and skulls  of children taken from the mouth of drought killing cattle

and women and men and shot through again and again and again for

A crime encrusted in Shabaabs. 

Thirsts break my soul.

When Kimaathi and Mau Mau fought the British and won

They did not go to England to kill. They had no planes

They walked forests that are villages now. They spoke to rivers

mists, sands and soils and heard the secrets of nature.

And beheld mountains and seas – Learn to focus.

The enemy is within your clothes. 

You shoot yourselves.