The River Between Poem

It’s a clear October night, temperatures are hovering around 63 degrees, you crack open the window and snuggle into the comfort and familiarity of your own bed, you are lulled to sleep by the fresh, crisp, Autumn breeze, totally unaware of the bad dream you have a date with once asleep. It’s a horrible, horrible dream yet so common you’ve personally experienced it, once, twice maybe even a dozen times, or you know people who have, or seen this kind of nightmare played out in a movie. There you are standing naked in front of a merciless audience, being judged, ridiculed and laughed at, with people pointing out every flaw and you have and there is nowhere to run or hide. Thankfully, you get to wake up from this nightmare and the next day a few things can happen: You can wake up with deep insecurity and rush over to the local Planet Fitness or YMCA and begin to fix the things “wrong” with you, or you may wake up and say “The hell with them, this is my body, I’ve had it my whole life, …show more content…
Although dreams, the month of October, Planet Fitness, Lunchables and beer have nothing to do with the River Between, after reading this essay you will hopefully grasp an understanding as to why I even made that analogy in the first …show more content…
It all began with the arrival of the Siriana Mission Administration and their accompanying institutions of Christianity and Education at a time when colonialism was penetrating deep into Africa. The Makuyu, represented by Joshua and his family accepted Christianity and have abandoned their native cultural traditions and customs, most importantly, female circumcision. Kameno, the ‘traditionalist’ tribe, is represented by Chege and his son Waiyaki and stayed entirely unchanged (not taking into account the actual physical change from