WHO PROTECTS THE PEOPLE FROM THE POLICE ?
You may write us off,
dismiss us ,
ignore us in Parliament halls padded with stolen wealth,
but still, we see
We are the country beneath your motorcades,
the hands that build and break,
the voices cracking in the dust
because hope costs too much now.
And yet,
we vote.
We vote for thieves in clean suits
We vote for wolves draped in our flags,
Enough.
We are tired.
Tired of job descriptions reading “Must be connected.”
Tired of degrees gathering dust
while our dreams starve in silence.
We are tired of joblessness turned into weaponry,
young men hired cheap to kill our own voices,
paid to break bones they’ve never healed in their own lives.
Tired of watching peaceful protesters
shot dead,
while those who loot in daylight
are guarded like royalty.
Tired of asking:
“Who protects the people from the police?”
Tired of staged outrage,
press conferences filled with air,
and politicians who only remember their roots
when it’s time to lie again.
You fight for positions, not for people.
You dine with the devil,
then kneel in churches too small for your sins.
You debate your egos on live TV
as our people dig trenches
not for roads,
but for graves.
You die to be seen.
But we die because we’re ignored.
Kenya is choking.
On debt.
On lies.
On the stink of promises unkept.
We are not asking.
We are telling.
This time, we vote with memory.
With pain.
With names.
With tears that learned how to speak.
This time,
you will not scare us with teargas.
You will not buy us with t-shirts.
You will not distract us with empty tribal drums.
We will remember who was silent when we bled.
We will remember who smiled while we starved.
We will remember who disappeared our brothers
and called us TREASONOUS CRIMINALS.
We are not the children you once fooled.
We have grown teeth.
We have grown rage.
And we are coming.
So let the ballot tremble.
Let your seats shake.
Let the ground beneath your stolen homes shift.
Because next time,
we are not just voting.
We are reclaiming.
And if you still don’t listen,
then hear this:
We are not afraid.
We are not asleep.
We are not yours.
Not anymore.
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