THE JOURNEY,THE COBRA

When weariness wants to sneak in,
When loneliness tries to creep in,
When your vigilance's seemingly sleeping,
And fever pitch seems to be sinking,
And you shudder in defeated thinking,
Take a minute n dust off your windscreen.

Yesterday, is over for the taking
Today,a new day, will you take it?
I can hear you say you'll make it
I can hear you pray that you nail it
Put all your heart into it daily
A 'lil' more is worth all the rest
Ever heard of 'passing the test'?
The sky always clears for the best

If you suffer as sure as you must,
If you wander as sure as you must,
If you blunder as sure as you must,
If you doubt as sure as you must,
n If it hurts as sure as it must,
Be more than willing to endure
For in so doing you'll be cured.

And even if it takes much longer,
Even if they become rumor mongers,
Former friends who are now no longer
It only serves to make you stronger
It only serves to make you bolder
It's like training to a soldier
shake them off,don't you bother.

Keep at it, never quit
Bitter-sweet,swallow it
Quicker feet,follow it
Slippery? Stick on it
Jittery? Strangle it
Stick a fork in it

Tame the cobra of fear in your journey
You'll be put on the side of the Angels

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Ngatia.T.Titus

Do You Want SUCCESS?

Then don't talk right and walk left,
Don jet right into bed with work left undone
words left unsaid, bills left unpaid
dreams left unclaimed,fears left untamed
talents left untapped,destinations unmapped
blessings left unwrapped,favours left unasked
targets left unmarked, identities left unmasked.
Focus is a must!

You've gotta have follow through.
Like a postage stamp,stick to one thing
Through different rounds,stick in one ring
Else you'll never be able to knock out
your fears,to wipe off your tears
get into gear and out do your peers
neither your troubles be able to pierce

Knowing is not enough,you must apply
Willing is not enough,you must do
Waiting is not enough,you must act
Praying is not enough,you must move
Saying is not enough,you must prove
Promising is not enough,you must honor
Confessing is not enough,you must own up.

You must not complain
You must not explain
Neither sh'd you blame
Nor sh'd you justify
Else your dreams crucify
By your very own energy

Just be gentle, gentle
Yes, gentle, only gentle
Laying,as perfectly as a brick can be laid,
one brick at a time

And soon you'll have a Wall
And soon you'll have it ALL

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PRISON LOVE

I wanted to think of love later
Before writing this love letter
Cos clandestine's how I met her
And valentines' when I met her

Feather-like earrings adorned her ears
Her approaching stilletos heralded fears
That her fierce father'd soon see us
And Melissa's eyes filled with tears

Dear,dry those angelic eyes, love
Be assured Cupid gave what we have
Be sure light'll burst in from above
And bring in this war,Picasso's dove

Nay distance can put forth no sunder
Even outside Verona, Romeo's still a thunder
For my soul you set on fire,Melissa Amanda
And this romantic charm none can plunder.

Under the silent moonlight that night
Our interlaced hands glowed so bright
Our intertwined souls gave us new sight
Despite the glare of darkness bite

For you will be my bride n I your groom
Despite your dad's court that denied us room,
Room to let what we have to bloom.
His royal stature said trouble'd loom

All in the name of my family's modesty
But Melissa how i adore your honesty
For out you jumped of the boat of royalty
To swim with me to our love-filled eternity.

Even as I look over these bars, I sigh
For indeed I am under your beautiful sky
Though in chains n pain I still can fly
my love for you's mighty,heavens high

The oceans of the world cannot dilute
No switch can break cupid's circuit
An unstoppable flow nature sh'd salute
Too firmly planted,no man can uproot

This shoot,none can stop from sprouting
just to assure you darling if you're doubting.
Thy father's cruelty's only fueling
the fire in mine's deepest feeling

i'm writing this story on the wall
So history'd never forget at all
that to you I gave all my soul
with a love that stood so tall

Even as my nails n flesh tear
celestial rays down at me glare
This deathly pain I can bear
i'll love you till the end,I swear

I'm writing on these walls of torture
I had to 'pluck' of my own feather
And use the red ink of nature
To write a story like no other

As my finger nails painfully rupture
As I strive to write the last chapter
For my passionate,fairest lover
(Since I do unendingly love her),

Let mine soul depart in peace
like gentle wind does to dry leaves.
Praying that Melissa reads this piece
written with a hope to express this:
Before true love,all adversity kneels!

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Merry MARY

As i stir and sip on my coffee
like an open dove cage am set free
thus a free bird i seek to flee
to the bright sky of bloom and glee
where sits the cloud of you and me
that lets a rain of peace and joy
and washes away the lonely dust
trying to make my latter days few
blinding my eyes from a lovely view
yet my soul to say is not slow
that i am free but tied to your glow
with you treasured is every second spent
my heart smiles in every shared moment
precious are the steps when we take a walk
under the raining sun,i mean shinning rays
the sunny rays that strum a string of praise
that my sorrows erase and my spirits raise
you are the whirl wind spinning me around
making spiral my words whenever you around
i terminally blush when our eyes brush
when our souls lock my stop clocks
i mean my clock stops my ship docks
For i am sailing on a silent boat
with you in the sea of peace i gloat
the friend in you is pearls and gold
Almond,aromatic rose,exoctic diamond
all this and more you so merit
and these my words not sweet nothings
but real something,special something
to a special someone,beautiful someone
lovely someone,humble someone
who makes me move to a new City
simpliCity where all is merry
And that i treasure you Mary
is the message of my story

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UNDER THY EYELIDS

It was no lunar neither solar eclipse

But you and I eclipse sprung from our lips

As we both got absorbed in that kiss

O! That kiss that let our hands hold the keys

Heaven’s keys unlocking glorious joy in our souls

In an explosion of happiness that seemed false

Yet flawlessly flows into the ocean of truth

Time has only gone to prove, our love’s true

Can I remind you of the golden ribbon?

The one you said makes you feel reborn

Reborn in love, the all enduring season

Across the seven seas yet on a new sea zone

I remember the jokes that oiled our friction

Making us spoilt with laughter addiction

I stole you from the face of the earth

And hid you in my deepest heart of hearts

On the floor, on the wall, the ceiling, the door

I’ve written the name of the one I adore

With the alluring indelible ink of love

And, how dear, I wish to be a duck

I’d wade in your waters forth and back

Looking to nothing else but being hit

By the rhythmic waves of your affection

If I’d cease…I’d love to live under your eyelids

So you could see but me when thy eyes close in prayer

Every time you’re nearby, my sorrows bid goodbye

Though avid swimmers before, they see you n drown

In the turbulence of your charm, they all drown

Vanishing like in the Bermuda, in the heat of your love.

My heart you melt away like butter,

At the frying pan of your angelic gaze

Pssst!!I can hear whispers of flattery accusations

But I wonder, darling, how else can I?

Can I pour out my deepest emotions for YOU

Without them succumbing to poetic gravity

How can I ride the horse of our love

Without it neighing sweet melodies?

How can I walk on the floor of romance

Without my feet gathering amorous leaves?

Neither I’m I to engage in oratory platitude

But just defy Geography and redefine altitude

You and I: the highest point above sea level

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THE THORNY STAIRCASE!

Lonely and o! Certainly so lowly a road
Unmannerly, unfriendly the horse I rode
Endlessly moody was the weather above
Not knowing rain or sun whether to serve
Curly, awkwardly curvy the seated terrain
Yet from a distance straight it does feign
Venomous serpents eternally flood the way
Endlessly serving poisons that overly weigh
Dastardly villains ever create diversions
Called ‘short-cuts’ with dire repercussions
No birds to sing the dawn sugar melody
Only chocking whispers of solitude’s prosody
But over my shoulders lay a beautiful path
Paved with sweet smelling roses and mirth
People seated having picnics in no hurry
Hardly seeking what their baskets did not carry
Each baking a cake that fitted in his plate
In the green fields, grass they did plait
Nothing hard, all simple and plain
All extra toil made soft lips complain
This led me to stop and give my ears
To seek and lean on the wisdom pillars
Of the treasure door to find the right key
Then ensued this mysterious soliloquy
‘Don’t you wait until you’re dead
Only to realize that you never lived
You either hold fear by the hand
Let it walk you to complacency’s land,
Or step thy feet on the thorny staircase
And continuously climb up to success’

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(S)HE is...

More than an habitual holder of chalks

More than an intriguing being telling jokes

More than a bespectacled figure dictating notes

More than a distributor of knowledge cards

More than an incubator of academic birds

More than a generator of mental vibration

More than a propellor of analphabet liberation

More than a foreteller of tomorrow's professions

More than a red pen in making corrections

More than a regular paycheque reciever

More than a tedious, honest worker

More than cement in the building of character

More than the words of man can explain

More than the heads of sages can contain

More than what genious minds can paint

More than entitled to the title 'Saint'

(S)HE is a TEACHER : Gods hand touching the universe!

*Dedicated to my father and all the teachers in the world.

Copyright Ngatia Thumbi '10