BREAK HER LEG
BREAK HER LEG
Imani son of Oloo,
A woman is not a harp that you play for other men to dance
Or a dead snake that you scare children with as you head to the anthill
The sun illuminates her endowments for the world to see,
In the broad daylight as she bends to fetch the low-level waters of river Odundu
So son, do not let the night steal the woman away from you
Beware; the night has no honor to lazy men
Darkness is a man who seduces your wife while you are with her on bed
Dont you know?
A weeding man may let loose his hoe, to gobble a cup of porridge
The crops are patient,
But Imani, do not surrender your wife to a lonely night!
Son of my brother,
When the morning sun rises,
Bones crack as women bend to escort their barrels to their heads
Reorganization of muscles bent in disrespectful inclinations
The silent night wasn’t so silent so to say
A newly married man must be watched in the morning
For the elders' eyes are on his wife's dress
When will it push?
When?
When will your wife’s dress bulge?
When will you break her leg, Imani?
Do not spare her for your love of a flattened stomach
Rivers swell in rainy seasons but droughts reshape them
Neither must you spare her for having tiny legs
That load has never broken anyone's back!
Son of Oloo,
A young empty woman is a disgrace to any society
Their legs walk anywhere
With their lips, they can burn a village
We ask you to break her legs for your own name to live after sunset
You do not want to be called by your name forever
Even by young children
Do you, Imani?
In our land Son of Oloo,
A newly married man must not come out to join in drumming the evil spirits away
The rest of the village strike an extra gong for him,
The heavy gong, the noisy gong!
Do not let them lose the sense in doing that
Let them do so for the care of their prosperity
Break her leg
So the day may know the voice of a little boy,
Or the night the shrill of a daughter of our land
For a fierce warrior you may be, in our land and beyond,
Or your riches incomparable,
But no one’s son will live to tell your story than one of your own.
@AnotherKenyan
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