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Best Poems Written by Rachael Kibicho

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Expo-Sed

I'm at an expo 
an expo for foreign countries' universities
they're advertising themselves to us
the people with little
the little people

I am seated
At a chair so comfy
Yet my heart so weary
That I'm wasting my time
That they're here mostly for themselves

I'd like to think otherwise
But for now that is the reality
That I Have consciously chosen
And there's no convincing me the other way
But do I really need them?

Looking at Kenyan Statistics
Looks like I do
If Binyanvanga Wainana wouldn't have made it outside Kenya
If Lisa Odour wouldn't have began her career at Berkeley
If Chimamanda wouldn't have gone to U.S....

The story is different
The plot is the same
Like a sickening soap opera 
That everyone is watching
And so you're inclined to do the same

I'm worried
That if I don't get something to do
I will have wasted my day
That if I don't talk to the familiar faces
I won't be able to talk to the strange ones

This was such a perfect day
Until I got here.
I'm leaving now
..continues to sit.

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Daddy Issues

Burying it was so easy,
momentarily relieving.

Burying it protected me,
from the inevitable responsibility,
of doing the necessary. 

Burying it gave me space,
to experience bliss,
that I wouldn't have felt worthy of, 
in another state.

Burying it made it look over,
closed, healed,
a past chapter,
One from which I heed.

Burying it did nothing,
but make it worse,
because now that it's out again,
I feel I have to validate,
all the happiness I had had.

It's all gone,
I knew it deep inside,
that it would last only a while,
I tried to hide,
but the time is nigh,
I'm afraid

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Push and Pull

It’s funny how I suddenly felt extremely beautiful after they constantly mentioned it.
It’s funny how I am extremely happy after I’ve talked to them for a few minutes or hours.
It’s funny how all of a sudden I need to maintain this and think about its implications in my life overall.
It’s funny how I have this subconscious restraint that I only release when I’m not around them.

It’s funny how I’m constantly trying to decipher their true motives from my encounter with them.
It’s funny how tired I get from having too much information about them yet that’s initially what I seemed to desire.
It’s funny how there is this great anticipation on what people’s opinion on my taste will be.
It’s funny how I imagined heartbreak at the onset of passion.
It’s funny how I feel this emptiness yet this release without them
It’s funny how confused I get when I think of their presence.

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Discontent

We're climbing ropes that hung from above
None of us can see where exactly they hung from
We get competitive sometimes
about who's got a better view
and who is better equipped
We get envious and that pushes us to 
try and rise higher.
but the ropes are long
Though we called them short everytime we saw someone's rope drop 
What's the point of climbing the rope if 
at the end of the day it'll still drop!
Well, the truth is.. it's the thrill of the moments we have,
between staying on the rope and slightly dangling dangerously from it, 
The thrill of being a rope climber who will never truly reach 
The thrill of being a subject to a mysterious phenomenon of rope climbing
Hopefully mine drops soon

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Let's Do This

I'm afraid to shower
Cuz then my insides will be crappier

Maybe I'm meant to see it
Perhaps that's as it should be
 
My impulse, so narcissistic
My worries, for the most basic
My memories, oh so depressing
My image, oh so pathetic

I soliloquize in plural  
To cope with a thought so brutal
That there is no version of me, 
Not even one
That I can ever truly love.

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Family Ties

from behind
a sword is thrust through my chest
my pain is indescribable
it is so great
I feel I have to share it to feel relief

I don't really look back to see 
whom the sword is from
I just know whoever pokes this wound
Will surely feel the full wrath
of my pain

Finally something does
I smile cynically
What a fool
I grab the sword 
And drag it onto their chest

Wait! It's still there
The sword on my chest
It just extended
onto the next person
We're in a circle of hurt people

It's getting wider
The origin is mostly money
Try our best we should
But..It's so hard to get out
If I could I would

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Kiwaru

I burnt some beans
While trying to lose my sadness
To a playlist made to numb hopelessness
and a lack of power

Tell me why 
I made progress
And enjoyed its gladness
Then one look at the game's giants
And my future is full of darkness

I sing
To stop tears from stinging
I shout 
To stop my voice from fading
I do
To stop my worth from draining
I cry
Because my dreams are nothing

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I Am Disappointed

I was given the chance
I pushed it away
With one glance

T'was offered into my mouth
I spit it out
As if out of disgust
But really, just out of doubt

I imagine that moment again
It seemed worth nothing at the time
But now is worth a billion yen
Worth the difference between
Life and death in a den

This emotion
Comes when things seem so good
When it seems I have found joy, truth
Attacks when least expected
But I write of it so that it's power is lessened
I am disappointed

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Chicken

Scared when I use like I'm losing
Scared when I'm speaking alone
Scared when I'm high and I'm groovy
Scared when I'm sad on the low

Scared when I'm making the music
Scared I'll forget it all
Scared when I'm bleeding profusely
Scared it'll leak, it'll show

Scared I'm immersed when I'm swimming
Scared I won't finally float
Scared I have no business in it
Scared I will never devote

Scared that this headache is deeper
Scared that it's more than I thought
Scared that this mountain is steeper
Steeper than I ever fought

Scared that I'll never be thinner
Scared that they'll drown my esteem
Scared that I don't have a figure
Scared that I'm never the dream

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Early Goodbye

Listen,
I'm just as needy as you are,
Maybe more so,
You thought you was narcissistic,
Look at me lost in my own world,
Unable to hear your woes about your own.

But I would never tell you such,
I know it would cause energy shifts,
Greater than the one now,
I need things stable,
Shallowly emotional.

If you keep drifting from me,
I'll create a version of you that doesn't,
I'm speaking to one now,
To suit my needs,
One that I'll hold on to for as long as I need.

And then I'll let go,
Finally, painfully and absolutely,
Because from thus far, I saw
That we will only last,
For as long as we remain to each other quiet and invisible,
And to ourselves, delusional