by Kemboi Allan

I want to believe in good signs

dark clouds for rains

on a dry and punitive season

but I hate the premonitions

within my feeble assemblage

and I have to guard

my uneven thoughts.

I wish I could hear the birds

singing outside my window

A bright morning to behold in awe

the day is warm and clear

and I have a catalogue of wishes

problems of human existence

waiting for the beautiful evening.

I wish my knees will not buckle

as I step out to muck up

the daylight hours

ploughing through the tall reeds

problems of my own creation

to kill the fears within me.

Kimutai Kemboi Allan is a Kenyan writer residing in Nairobi. His works have been published or are forthcoming in Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine, The Wayfarer Art and Literary Journal, Everscribe Magazine, the RIC Journal, DoubleSpeak Magazine, MEN: An International Anthology of African and Latin American Writers, the Redefining Poetry Anthology by Litterateur RW magazine, the “Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology”, “Our Stories Redefined Anthology for African Writing 2023 (Poetry Edition)”, The Piker Press, Prodigy Magazine, Our Poetry Archive, the INK Babies Literary Magazine, Written Tales, African Global Networks (AGN), Ake Review, The Active Muse, The Writer’s Space Africa, The Kalahari Review, The Naluubale Review, Writers Resist and Havik’s 2020 Anthology (Homeward). He is currently working on a Collection of Poems.