Prison

Photo by Brad Ruggles

no thank you
I will not come
into your day time prison
so you can force
a foreign tongue on me
and a label.

Let me teach you something
you’ll never learn in here
the history of a people
soaking the soil
filling the air
riding on fine dust particles
that glitter and gleam in the sun.

I’ll even show you what I found
carved on rock walls
hidden in old clay pots.

If you leave your shoes behind
then maybe I’ll let you
go to school
with me.

@ndungi2012