This poem talk to the the youth from slums in kenya and in Eastern Africa at large. It motivates the youth while discouraging the idleness. Though it’s written in ghetto “language.”

IDLE IS TIRESOME

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Ku-seat back na ku-relax is unfit!

Imagine ku-stay all day long,

Bila ku-think positively,

It’s building a place for negativity.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Eat and rest is obesity.

Ku-build non-productive wit,

Devil hutumia jobless mind.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Hata simple sermon.Uh! zii.

Procrastination ndio ya mwezi,

Hata walk? Ni kuona mengi.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Ku-stay hata bila ku-do sum.

Nenda katafte kazi ya ku-raze,

Kama kazi ya kujenga ni hard.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Hata wanyama hucheza ball.

Si kama doing nothing at all,

Hata kua-fan hua ni stiff.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Can’t even make one laugh

Ku-cross-hands na we ni young.

Ujana ni moshi,ukienda no longer tough.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Kuskiza tu wenye plot,

Kazi nikuomba salt na flour,

Soon utawa-join kwenye floor.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome.

You can’t even box someone,

You can’t get powerful fox.

Nikama uko infected na chicken-pox.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome,

Just talking about More.

Go work and earn a Bob,

Sikungoja tu ku-heist.

Si-kustay idle is tiresome.

Checki,acha kuteta ni mapank.

Wakidi wako wata-drive?

Better wish them well then upewe ride…

Si-kustay idle is tiresome?

Just to be frank.

©️SIMSIM.