Floods! floods! floods!
You robbed me off
Am now a squatter!
I don’t sleep anymore,
What have I done?
Floods! Floods! Floods!
I can no longer eat!
I starve in my own land,
You took it from me
What have I done?
Floods! Floods! Floods!
Mosquitoes now on me
Oh! My not in peace!
My child shivers all over!
What have I done?
Floods! Floods! Floods!
I don’t eat mine , just me,
depend on donations oh!
No shelter , just under thorns,
What have I done?
Floods! Floods! Floods!
Distress call me a friend,
Cholera calls me uncle,
Bilharzia calls me backup!
What have I done ?
Poem by Vincent Omondi
Copyright © Vincent Omondi 2020
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