It was during the Westgate Mall siege that it suddenly dawned on me that some of the things I watch in movies can happen in real life. It was a frustrating realisation for me especially because I am a student of literature. As a student of literature I should have remembered that movies are part of literature and despite the exaggerations they still bear a sense of faithfulness to reality because after all literature is a mirror of the society. Now that is interesting. During this devastating time I penned down the following poem as a tribute to humankind:
To be so vulnerable,
To know that there is nothing one can do,
To lie hopeless like a hit and run victim,
To think of the muzzles of guns,
To imagine of death, to smell the fear in the air,
To listen to the rat a tat of gun fire,
To see the bodies strewn all over,
the kids & women scampering about in panic,
This is to be intimate with horror,
And to understand helplessness...
May those that were affected by this tragedy discover the Lord's love and grace.
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