Couldnt make it yesterday, where would you have expected me to be...no where but in the presence of Agwas. In our neighbourhood, Agwas holds a special place in our hearts, he is the true son of the people who live here, sometimes people exxagerate how much we love this son of the soil, but Agwas he is......and there is no changing his status in the lives of the people here. I came here, and found he was not just Agwas, that was him from a distance, here he was a son, an uncle, a brother...he was just about everything, and we all knew him, we all were somehow related to him, that is why it is not big news for us to expect too much of him. Blood is thicker than water, the white butterfly whispered, and the black one knows it too, that is why when he enters the shrine we would expect not to be charged rent here, we would expect to eat, to live , to have less worries because he is our son, sons dont let their families die of hunger or, sleep in the rain....they do what is right according to their families, that is why we still expect so much from him.
sometimes I think its too much, if not now, maybe in the future it will be , but Aunt Nera and even her fellow women in the merry go round, they agree Agwas has come to save them, that is why for the whole family yesterday we just had to go for an outing at the park. Lunch or no lunch, and breakfast too we had to forgo that too, if only we could be the first ones to arrrive at the park. To count a million ants is tedious, that is why I cant bother to tell you how many of us were there, Ikanta is better than me in numbers, but she couldnt arrive at the figure, so ...you guess it. I can speak much no...no...with all the shouting I did!! So now we are just waitting..... for the rest...when Agwas finally gets it, even Aunt Nera wont sell fish no more, it would be like been in Zion, no more crying there, that is what Ras Kimo said, it will be like Babylon gon come down, and on the hill we shall be eating of the green pastures......
am not sure about what he say among all the quick talking he does, but sometimes my mind goes confused.......are they talking about Jesus, or what!!!
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