The maize will grow
once when
long rains have come
and army worms
have gone
rations
will sink
with hunger
and the coiled intestines
will straighten
But
that day
shall find may
in the invalid home
with collarʼd fathers
at bedside mass
and others
in graves
with maggots
on palatable meal
and for the grave majesties
the maize cob
shall be
for a rusty funeral feast.
Jared Angira (born 1947) Kenya
Source: Poems from East Africa edited by David Cook and David Rubadiri, East African Publishers, 1996
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ReplyDeleteMy personal thoughts on the Poem is about the independence from the colonial masters .long rains representing independence and the army worms describing the colonizers. Independence will alleviate people of poverty and there will be better loving conditions.However this freedom might take long and many will have suffered to some extent even death . Collar'd father's and bedside mass suggest the religion of the colonial master
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