IN RESPECT OF SIMPLE THINGS

Very simple things,
Like wine and women
Or beggars around,
Make life to change,

Wine competes with
All things great
For human life,

Just as love and hatred
Gossips and musing
They all make life
A true business,

You May not know
How simple are simple things
How lack of handkerchief
Can make hell out of our days
How knotting a neck tie
Can mess a whole ceremony,

You look at scorpions and you scorn,
With no business for their life,
You also pay no damn for worms,
Black ants and white ants,
But particles tinier than them
Make life subject to Ebola,

I even saw a butterfly
Moving from plant to plant
I don’t knew its use then
Only to know later that,
It was on moral duty
Of feeding the whole world,

Imagine absence of a butterfly
Will make the world unable,
To support human life,

Look! as simple as smile of a wench
Can make a whole world to raze up in fire
Under the emotional weight of man’s envy,

Simple things really are sparks of the times,
No matter how simple they may be

or for sure is simplicity a measure of earnest
How simple is the whiff of wine
And scent of perfume
And bulge of a bosom
And zigzag moves of a bee
They all turn un-simple
In their absence,

Hence a Swahili proverb
That; maana ya matako
Hujilikana wakati wa kitonda
Or value of your buttocks
Is known when they have a boil.