I know you want to leave me now, i ask of you though, don’t
leave me slowly and cautiously. Turn over tables and throw my clothes all over
the street. Shout all you want to all the people so that they may know what a
jerk i’ve been. Make sure my heart has been shattered into a million pieces.
Make me open my eyes and see you leave. Make sure i remember all we’ve had and
all we’ve never. Don’t try to comfort my heart or even considering my tears and
my pleas. Don’t pat my back comfortingly, rather walk out and bang the door in
my face and walk into the oblivion. Show me that you don’t need me anymore to
ensure i feel the pain of you walking away. Do not shed a tear for me. Make
sure i am broken beyond repair and that i would never love again. Who has ever
heard of a sweet heartbreak? It doesn’t exist so make sure you pass the message
as it should be. Don’t pull me down bit by bit. Bring me down like you would a
crooked wall. Spare me not. Make sure i never wake up from the rubble. Bury my
memory in the darkest corner of your heart, rather burn it into ashes for my
face is not one you would want to remember.
Chapter nine Let me tell you about something that happened to me during the past rainy season that still sends shivers down my spine up till today. It was during the short rain seasons where the water would form rivulets and roll down the lonely path to the shopping centre. It wasn’t really a big place, just a boring place with a shop they called ‘chamchi-tugul’ meaning love y’all in Kalenjin, a poshomill, a small barber shop where we always cried when our parents sent us to pay him a visit and a small house always under lock and key where we always peeped with a hope of discovering loads of money locked in, little did we know that it was the barber’s store room. The rainy season though never stopped us from playing our football games, shirtless of course. We played without our shirts, not because it was fun that way but just because some of us had only the one. We were two goals ahead, all credit to me for stopping the ball with my face twice though I almost went blind in one a...
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