Poets’ corner: JUMA-PHOPIA

 

Discipline and hard work extolled her high,
To peaks of knowledge and book learning,
From the impervious overseas and elusive within,
Hence nature of her manner beyond manliness,
As she keeps profession and career all but soigné

She sussed and grew above sadism of political man
The usual money conscious Kenyan homo-politicus
Wallowing in mired corridors of powers that be,
Forcing our poor daughters into abyss of despair,
To be disarmed in total and hence, defenceless
Before the menace their money whetted appetite
An archaic persiflage above which Juma is grown