WAITHERA WA RUNGUNGU

Dear love with eyes as beautiful as the last star
Dear love with a face glowing like the touch of dawn
Dear the one with a body curled like the evening rainbow
The one who sets suns in my feeble moon
Kairetu ka kigikuyu gatwarithitie ngoro yakwa ugwo
(The lady from Kikuyuland who's driven my heart lost)
Karia nyonanga ngaigwa mathogothanio
(The one I see and feel butterflies)
Ino ni yaku dari Waithera
(This for you darling Waithera)
Since the day I glanced at your beauty
That very day when the trees sung
Their leaves danced of branches with life
They died to light a path to yearning hearts
Yet the one who burns past dark clouds
Clouds as dark as your supple skin
She roared with the rays upon your head
And you asked for my hand
Of help and not the rest
I did well to cultivate
Sweetheart Waithera Wa Rungungu(Waithera of the south)
I will never forget the look in your face
Nature's most glamorous written all over
The taste of your lips in battle
When love was born in a maize plantation
When paradise painted our world
Till the tears of dark cloud roared
And I left you in excruciating pain
And I left the other me in the lonely rain
Mama yakwa,(My honey)
Your skin is like the texture of everything nice
I used to touch it with the fragility of a treasure priceless
Your slim antelope legs made me run out of talk
My heart was stolen by a stare at each of your walk
Yet here you saying we are no more
Muiritu Wa Rungungu (Girl from the south)
Eee Ma Waithera,
Did the distance steal that which dusted time
Did the miles stretch our love through that which sits in your cage
Who's that who etched in with a handful dime
And erased the last of my soul-painted page
Kindu wa niu kai niki nduruna
(My love why don't you see)
Without you my heart is just embers
Can't the reek of the burning desires
Awaken the wendo(love) we used to share
Can't these flood from swollen eyes
Like the pouring from the beautiful Arberdares
Wash that which this other lies
Revive this that accidentally died
My angel Waithera,
I will do what you want me to
Though the only I can cook is hot water
I will prepare Pizza from Ngunjagutu(Ugali from mashed potatoes)
Though I can only roast maize
I will slaughter a bull for you
Though you belong to someone else
The hands that you used to know itch
And your skin begs for warmth
Give me one half of a chance
To draw the calabash full of magic waters
Let me end your thirst for the real you missing.