Alexander K Opicho

(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)

 

 

On this 23^rd December of 2013

LASHKNIKOV is lying dead

In the coffin on the pyre

In Moscow the city of Russia

Away from Siberia his child hood home

Waiting to be buried by the people

His invention the Ak 47 and 74

Has not yet killed,

Good bye Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

Son of Alexandra as you travel to land

Of the dead where a million of Rwandese in Africa

And million of the Vietnamese are now citizens

After having been shot dead by the AK47 and AK 74

You will not be lonely you glorious son of Russia,

You natural tinkering skills

Gave the world ubiquitous weapon

That has done wonders you looked on

Tell your gods where your poems you wrote are

The world is now free from your vice of the AK

Man can city now in peace and read your poetry

As the fettered politicians have no where

To get the weapons for mass peasant destruction,

Reveal to us the armoury in which you stuffed your poetry