Tears of an Enigma

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Elder Lister
If He Really Has No Prize, Bring Him Back To Us!

Perhaps, when we tell you he's a good man
You think it is for the battles he's fought and won
You praise him for slaying the tyrant
You praise him for opening the mouths that mock him
You praise him for stepping back when he was the strongest
You praise him for bringing hope when we were all hopeless
You know, he is for all of us when he wins
We do not deny
But whose is he when he loses a battle?

Whose was Amollo when his own mother died
And he was not here with her?
To hold her hands with love in her final hour
To assure her that he did not abandon her
For a quest bigger than he was to her, and she to him
Bigger than her own dying mother!
To carry her, like all sons should do, when she was weak and immobile
Do you know, I ask you, the pain of a mother about to die,
With a son locked far away in prison?

Do you?

Amollo is our son
We should have blamed him for being away
When a mother needed him in her deathbed
We've taught our sons to do that to their mothers
But for Amollo, we all did it for him
These tears you see are not all from us
Buckets mourned his mother for him

Because back here, he was the best we had around at this time
We love him for the battles he lost
That's when our love is strongest
We will award more for the battles he lost

We beseech you to let him come back home
If he has no prize for the battles he won
We will not be ashamed of him for an empty hand
Hunters have searched a whole forest before and
returned empty
They did not sleep hungry and cold in the forest!
We did not send Amollo for anything that we cannot do without
Have we died for the many we sent and never came back?

Bring him to us if he has no Prize for the battles he won!
We shall build him a house by the shores of Lolwe!

 
😂 😂 😂 a sad person who writes a poem has unlocked the last stage of depression and reality is sinking that nothing good is about to happen
 
Let him come home with his teary eyes;We will accept him back because he is our son and help him wipe his eternally flowing tears.
Let him come home with his limping walking style; we will teach him how to walk again.
Allow our mganga to come back; we need his charms to heal our hearts.
Let the Supreme Court allow our son to come back; we will never turn our back on him and hate him like the world did.
He is our son,our hero,our Enigma,our source of hope and our strength; we will receive him with open arms.
One day if God allows us; we will sit by the fireplace with our Great grandchildren and talk to them about Amollo,the great son of our motherland. A great son that was never appreciated. His name will forever be in our lips.

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Cortedivoire said:
😂 😂 😂 a sad person who writes a poem has unlocked the last stage of depression and reality is sinking that nothing good is about to happen
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Isorait.

Raila is still the son of Kenya. His heroic exploits shall forever be told from one generation to another.
 
I would be crying as well, if his actions haven't directly led to the loss of many Kenyan lives, disabilities and economic depression which has equally led to the loss of more lives indirectly.

However, like a virus, he has tested the constitution, institutions and the people to the maximum. We have gained natural immunity thanks to him. And like a virus, amepita na watu kadhaa.

Final note: I must protest! You our seniors have accepted a very crippling habit of romanticizing deplorable people once they turn into harmless shells of their former selves. Reading the poem and comments from notable senators will have you thinking Raila is a saint. Shame!
 
Denis Young said:
I would be crying as well, if his actions haven't directly led to the loss of many Kenyan lives, disabilities and economic depression which has equally led to the loss of more lives indirectly.

However, like a virus, he has tested the constitution, institutions and the people to the maximum. We have gained natural immunity thanks to him. And like a virus, amepita na watu kadhaa.

Final note: I must protest! You our seniors have accepted a very crippling habit of romanticizing deplorable people once they turn into harmless shells of their former selves. Reading the poem and comments from notable senators will have you thinking Raila is a saint. Shame!
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I voted for Baba but to make him a spotless saint is rather rich. Are we talking about the guy who promoted the devastating 41-against-1 philosophy?

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Field Marshal said:
Can't imagine a cold-hearted bloke like you shedding a year after reading a poem which, if it is original and not paraphrased, is excellent.

ION, it is an ode based on half-truths and lies. For example, Raila was detained for participating in a Luo coup attempt, not fighting for democracy.

Still, it is beautiful...
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I do not claim ownership of the poem. The author is a guy called Odhiambo Kaumah. The link is after the poem. Still, it is a beautiful piece.

And as an old Guoka,I expect you to at least say something positive about Agwambo. Why did we call him Njamba? What youa re calling a Luo coup attempt could also be looked from the angle of liberating the country from a dictator who didn't understand any other language.

To me, the most beautiful part of the ode is this:
You know, he is for all of us when he wins
We do not deny.
But whose is he when he loses a battle?
 
Aviator said:
I do not claim ownership of the poem. The author is a guy called Odhiambo Kaumah. The link is after the poem. Still, it is a beautiful piece.

And as an old Guoka,I expect you to at least say something positive about Agwambo. Why did we call him Njamba? What youa re calling a Luo coup attempt could also be looked from the angle of liberating the country from a dictator who didn't understand any other language.

To me, the most beautiful part of the ode is this:
You know, he is for all of us when he wins
We do not deny.
But whose is he when he loses a battle?
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Wacha zako. By 1982 Moi was not a dictator enough to call for a coup, which was in reality a Luo affair.

For the record, I've never called Raila njamba. In 2002 he simply hitched his horses to the winning team, nothing else.

Has Raila contributed to democracy in Kenya? Absolutely. But I doubt his contribution was more than Jaramogi or Matiba. Just because he has a huge ethnic following doesn't make a demigod...
 
Field Marshal said:
I voted for Baba but to make him a spotless saint is rather rich. Are we talking about the guy who promoted the devastating 41-against-1 philosophy?

Aaaaaaaaai......
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Field Marshal said:
Wacha zako. By 1982 Moi was not a dictator enough to call for a coup, which was in reality a Luo affair.

For the record, I've never called Raila njamba. In 2002 he simply hitched his horses to the winning team, nothing else.

Has Raila contributed to democracy in Kenya? Absolutely. But I doubt his contribution was more than Jaramogi or Matiba. Just because he has a huge ethnic following doesn't make a demigod...
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All these sensible points and you still voted Baba na Mama ati they are liberation heros and patriots. How did you reconcile the two?
 
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