The Northerner

A tribute to the peoples of Northern Kenya

From the desolate North

Numbed by decades of marginalization

Sticks out like a sore thumb

A picture of emaciation

Ever high on a cocktail of vain pride and aggression

Loathed and revered in equal measures

A Northerner defies all definition;

A mishmash of true determination and wheeling and dealing

An imagery of primitive savagery

Drowning in clanism in a sea of tribalism

Still struggling to reconcile with the past

A magnet to every mess

A scapegoat in every place

The Northerner defies all description;

Next time you see a Northerner,

Ask if he’s proud to be one,

I am!

Author's Note

Comments and criticism welcomed.