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Your Boys

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Your boys were created so they can restore your faith in humanity or the male species in general. If you have started going down the cynical path and you are afraid of turning into a bitter 4o year old spinster with nothing good to say about anything apart from complaining about the cost of bread these days and how much Safaricom is stealing from you everyday.

I come from a family where the ratio of boys to girls is 3:1. Off the top of my head I just counted 13. What that means is I have been in the company of boys most of my life until that time it becomes awkward, coz they are not blood brothers, though it shouldn’t, but boundaries in society make it so, so we end up missing out on important human interaction.

“Boys shouldn’t shell peas.”

Right.

“Girls should not go into cinema halls to watch DJ Afro films.”

WHHHYYYYYYYY?

Anyhow.

My boy cousins are  my buddies and we have the most laughs with them and their friends become my friends too.

I guess that is why I am comfortable  around members of that race especially if they fall under the same age as my little cousins, who are not so little anymore.

Your boys are important. If they understand they are your boys, and nothing more.
Thy are important because, even when anyone else in the world does not believe in you, and even when you have stopped believing in yourself,they are right there, cheering you on.

You start to talk about the Chrysler you are going to buy and they take up the story, and send you pictures of the different colors available and you know what that does to your self esteem? 

the car

My boy friends are not surprised to receive phone calls from me, close to tears when my desktop has shut down. Regardless of whether they know about computers or not,they will come and fix it.

In standard seven, primary school, there was a big scandal that might have had me beaten up by some classmates but my boys protected me. Three of my boys ganged up with some other mean looking boys and sorted the whole affair for me and for the rest of primary school, my bffs were three boys.

In college, my boys prevented me from going into depression when I couldn’t find accommodation in the no-Africans Condos, unless you were a non-black African.

God.

So my boys said, no matter, we’ll just pile up into one room and leave you the other one Cici. And then we all went for a ride.

Greg's missing here

Your boys must be treasured, you don't take them for granted. You give them good advice and  once in a while the outcome is positive then you know this is working.

Nĩũnguaga wana- Wa Kioi Junior

Ngai!

How do you view me, you?….Aii….

I am not getting you clearly

Can you repeat what you said?

Or maybe one of my dials has moved places

The mouth is foolish sometimes it dismisses food

I am very happy to know your weakness.

You came to my house wearing an overcoat on a sunny day

And you had gumboots on

You were confused like a hungry dog.

When I started to laugh you said:

‘These issues are beyond me, come Kioi

Speak to her I cannot manage on my own.’

chorus

Me, the one who speaks on your behalf

Am I also the one destroying your home?

When you have wronged your wife I come and settle matters between you

I take you as my friend but to you I’m just

Material you build your home with,

You view me in a childish way.

I’m not embarrassed to say I’m like one who dies innocently

The stupidity is all my own

Coz Rua had told me:

‘When two people who love each other  have an issue..’

That son of my mother told me: ‘Just keep quiet’ (don’t get involved)

I had set you free from a trap

Just to have you trap me in it.

It is not once or twice you wife

Has caught you with a mistress

Then we’d plan, you told her she was my dame

And because she knows I don’t have these people

She would believe us.

Had I known,

You would be denying it with evidence on your lips.

Chorus

Now you are saying I ring your house

And I don’t even have your wife’s number

Ask Diki

If I had known you bite when we were laughing together

I’d have stuffed an umbrella in your mouth and opened it.

You are lying to your wife I’m the one that introduced you to alcohol

Can’t you tell her the truth, how you have the key?

When you don’t go home and sleep in the city

Where do you sleep and with whom?

Chorus

When you don’t go home and sleep in the city

Where do you sleep and with whom?

I will not judge you, You are a fool but you don’t even know it

I understand where you are coming from.

Gitau from Rongai had told me,

Everybody knows

You are sat on like chairs (henpecked)

(chorus)

This part is spoken  with instruments  that take on a whole stanza.

Gitau exhauster

You had told me

I will not judge.

Karis of Kinyozi poa

When you see such people

Take off mbuga mbuga

That is like saying this, ‘what is in it for me?’

Even Rua had warned me

And I said

“It’s just friendship, friendship.”

Can you hear me, Wa Yuni?

Greet that one, the one that shares a mother with that other one,

Even that one is my friend.

Greet all people of Kabiti and Makuyu.

Translation challenges

Nĩũnguaga wana... when you say that to someone, the direct translation is -you carry me childish- But what it means is you are looking down on me, you are despising me, you are refusing to acknowledge my real value. It is had to make a clear translanslation without losing the real meaning.

I had issues translating muhiki. The real meaning of the word is a bride.

But I translated as mistress, since he has a wife.

Mũhiki can be girlfriend if it I is a woman you are dating but secretly, so people say he has a mũhiki.

When it is a girlfriend people don’t take seriously, or is big in size, she becomes Kĩhiki.

 I need to find out what KĩHIKI is for the KĩHIKI Beauty translation coming up on Sublime Innocence.

I love The instruments and the careless style in this song.

He is out there to sing, not make a song.

When I feel annoyed at someone carrying me childish I sing along to this song. It reminds me of the absurdities in life. And there are many.  Like this man who thinks his friend  the singer is after his wife. True, there are cases where spouses have been snitched but I doubt anybody is willing to risk a friendship for that.  I’m I naïve? Would I go for my married girlfriend’s husband? Why? Aren’t there a million single men from here to the YAP islands?

watch the song here