In your nonappearance, love
I composed of the long loosening up streets of our country home
Portraying the left homes of the previous tenants
What's more, of Koala, I call her that... my freshly discovered pet, and companion
I discovered her when I was searching for you, by the slopes
Terrified, yet innocently accommodating to my delicate hands.
Furthermore, I disclosed to them I'll see you
Not by the standard stream that we used to meet at sun sunset
Neither by the dusty market, a kiondo close by wheeling and dealing
I just realized I needed to discover you, regardless of whether covered up in a dim buibui
So from one town to the next I looked for your shadow
Terrified, that you'd not perceive my old face once more.
They revealed to me you resurrected
That they saw you by the sea shore, in a half bare photograph
With a white man in underpants holding your midsection
A glass with a red fluid in your grasp, an image so striking
So I requested bearings, and obviously I came
Terrified, that they'd remember I was an outsider among them.
"Kuingia ni rahisi, kutoka ni ngumu"
I was presently here, broke, filthy and destitute in another city
With vehicles as quick as some I saw at Teacher Mutheu's TV
The primary nearly hit me, braking a couple of feet from me
Driver an inadequately dressed youngster, disparaging me
Back at home, ladies don't speak loudly at a man ... never.
Several sandy sea shores
I even got assimilated swimming from one to the next
I nearly overlooked I was searching for my Mwende with a white elderly person
Before I discovered a recognizable face, this time not all that lovely
Dainty, as they don't bolster you here yet they cook best
I was frightened, more awful petrified like I was seeing an apparition.
In your nonappearance, old love
I had overlooked time had moved so quick, and you were currently old
At the point when you disclosed to me you were presently debilitated, I idiotically got over it
Before you revealed to me it was a spooky infection, with no fix
I indicated you the old letters I kept in touch with you, and a magazine cut
You snickered a last, as you drooped back on your medical clinic bed.