Too close

Holding from the fairest skies

We are two merry stars

Broken to the close skies

Close in the dark of the night

Moving too close still, to make

A wishful night for little girls

Glowing with earthly love

Breaking loose away from reality

From the depth of our imagination

As a sculptor for just a day

Sculpturing your heart: shielded in stone

Cracking into beats only for me

Colliding in our space comfort

Burning to meet our power like sparring

Too close for comfort

To find galactic healing

As a goldsmith for just a day

Making you a golden statue

In a glittering world’s display

Crying out to God

To make its beats eternal

So as it would be mine

To keep forever imperishable

With your body in fire

If I could have a wish may be

I would ask for an iron heart

Just so your fire could smelt me

That no other could touch unless you

If I could build myself a whole city

With nations fighting just to own you
I would make your other name city

as you will be my capital city among cities

Daring the earthquake

 “Eeh sheeh, eeh sheeh” everyone shouting

Kigezi calling upon Bakiga dancing in its prime

“Eeh sheeh, eeh sheeh” they shouted earth scaring

As the horrid night couldn’t save it this time

Kigezi dares to tame the earthquake

Jumping over the ground, stumps hard stippling

As the drums laugh at the helpless earthquake

Upon the winds they were jumping

Only to land vibrating with humanly tremors

As if daring the earthquake

 For the first time, without murmurs

With flashes cheering the dancing quake

The moon watches astonished

To see motile humanity daring the earthquake

Provoking the elephants to come out scared

Everyone bouncing like a ball

Kigezi dancing in honour of her ancestors

That once de-tasted earthquakes

Times over again; feet upon the other

Threating the earth never to quake again

 With an army of hills, in crumbles

The earth fighting back with land slides

Without moss but to gather Bakonjo houses

Pouring them into the valleys in pride

With mountain Rwenzori not loud

Hiding its anger away from the Bakonjo

Shyly covering its face with clouds

In warning to the Bakonjo

As if some day it would roll down more rocks

If they ever dared the earthquake, in its alley

 Kigezi wondrous ankles crippled without socks

With a dance that could squash hills into valleys

“Eeh sheeh, eeh sheeh” scolding the earth in pain 

Stones dust squashed, only here once were amabale.

“Eeh sheeh” they said: meaning “never do it again”

Stumping at the heart of Kabale

Stretching all over Kabale at the edge of Kigezi

As he rejoices the dare of the earthquake

Times no longer horrid to the sons of Magezi

The dare that tamed the earthquake

Décor of my night

A day loses brightness to the night

Dragged awake in its dreams,

In a lead to make something great

Most dreams fulfilled while awake

With a touch of darkness in the sky

It is ten o’clock; with almost everyone in bed

Glowing stones thrown all over the night

To give a bright decor of my night skies

So much in love with the fourth hour of a night

Losing sniff from the track heading home

Wandering dogs disappear within the dark

Staying awake with poetic wonders

With acoustical vibration of rock beats

Explosively playing beats within my ears

You paint my chest with heart beats

Of a mellow wonder as I watch you in the skies

Defined by what we were meant to be

Holding you in my thoughts with motherly comfort

That cuddles her baby like she’s just given birth

To find solace within your cotton comfort

I make a little world on earth of my own

Stepping up to the night in a warm bed

With almost every hectic one gone to bed

Stretching mileage across the night

With a story narrated so real in a dream

Seeing dawn shed light on our new days

Of what is never coming back as we love

Living every day without regret by your side

You are

With just a few words you teach us to live

You are my peace

Sometimes when people may not relate

You are the reason I can’t quit

You are my knowledge and wisdom

You make reality of my trace dreams

Lord, you are my faith and hope

You make melodious sound of worldly noise

Lord, you are my joy

You make brightness of my dullness

You are my love

Making greatness of my weakness

When I was tired to make any more attempts

You are my strength

You make joy of all my sadness

You make beauty of imaginary scenery

You are the air I breathe

You make melody of my voice

Into heart felt songs

You make leaders of mere servants

You make warriors of frail and young toddlers

You are my courage

You makes normal of all abnormality

A coup friend’état

The rebel armies drew in stronger military

A London derby at the heart of England,

More like a football coup d’état

But I was chasing for your heart, my beats little

Africa was scared for a coup d’état

As Arsenal FC was chasing the league title

But I was waging a coup friend’état

African army generals were fighting for peace

Fans all over the world watched premier league

Just friends, I wanted to take it to the next level

Shocked stuck in three wars in one moment

I wept for me, Africa and the rest of the world

For our unborn generations and legendary

Days dramatically changing like coup théâtre

Playing with ball possession like Arsenal

Singing all of me, by John Legend

For a moment I won a ventricle and an artery

Unless Arsenal won this game, the title will be lost

The wars fired in flames with new weaponry

Unless we lost, we shall not die rebels

The rebels had a new strategy

With a new motto, it was fire, fire, fire

All wars with the ones in need, fighting on

Without a certain to give up

Seconds by hours I spent, to create it daily

But to you it was just a mere excitement

For being loved by someone attractive

But always goals win the match

May be I wasn’t good enough for you

I told myself as I put my arsenals down

Without reloading my ammunition

This derby determining Arsenal’s reign

As it was war and football in my veins

Army general enjoying farfetched victory

A loser, I lost my hold to your heart reins

Rough upon tender

                                               

Bees and bird flock to taste your beauty

Under the sun, you wailed with thirst

Winds afar from all corner of the universe

Are tempted to kiss your scent

The monsoon quieted by the savannah

Waiting and wishing for science to take its course

Under the rain, swept off your feet

Into the trench floozies you stood no more

Your beauty fading within the mud

Rough upon tender, your petals wizened

Bees and birds fly to find another beauty

Forgetting what once was your beauty

That once drew them forth so lusty

The sky that laid your fate

Yet grooms another beauty floozy

Razzle and the dazzle

In a not far away world

Just around a bedazzled city

Ever like the light, love groomed a razzle

From hearts, sparked electricity

Ever like the bright, she bridled a dazzle

From a bottle, I asked

To sip a life to quench

That from a mind I longed to ask

Such a razzle, you were dazzling in red

That in razzle: I was bedazzled in black

Dazzling with razzle to dazzle forever

Flowing connected like current

That even if a naked inch touched

Together sizzling hot like an electric cable

We would spark a house down

Together fighting like rain and sunshine

Leaving only a bedazzled rainbow

Dazzling in expression of our reconciliation

Leading mar rum and tarmac 

Sometimes like tyres and a road dazzlingly

Unable to understand

I lead on like a child learning to walk

The razzle and dazzle

Such a magical combination of

A bedazzlement destined forever like

The real life of beauty and the beast

Calling us, razzle and the dazzle

With the lights down, sharing moment’s best

As you will always be my razzle

As I bedazzle you to make us razzle-dazzle

Such power

There is power in the unseen

Even when you don’t see

The wind is always there blowing

Knowing my God

In my hands I hold such power

It gets the lights blindly trembling

In my head I think such power

That it gets the sun blinking

Knowing how much you love me

In my heart I feel such power

That valleys raise to mountain quarters

Knowing your God in your hands

You will hold such power

Knowing your God in your head

You will think such power

Knowing your God in your heart

You will feel such power