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At my Hour of Retirement

By that hour of my retirement,
Honoured a veteran of state service
Honoured an emeritus chief of the ministry,
I await a great harvest of fine accomplishments.
For I expect to own villages of land
Own cities of residential estates
And rest in a town of homes.

I strive, my breath and brain on it
To have carried these treasuries dry
I promise to triumph
In planting my entire clan into
All offices shelved in the state ministry
My daughters, heritors of top chambers
My son, the legitimate heir of this ultimate seat.

I have the strict vision of ballooning
My belly, weighing in tones
My name overshadowing all names of fame.
These teeth of mine
Will have chewed at all the luncheons
Stewed in 5-star hotels
Or braised in international restaurants.
Each drop of lavish beer shall roll
Along this executive throat.
Every pair of female breasts in this ministry
I bet, shall have scratched my bushy chest
All their thighs, lumbered upon my limbs.

I look forward to emptying
The state store of honors
I envisage draining
All stores of state tribute
All executive accolades
Crowned on my ministerial skull

Country men
I’m blinded by counting the
Tanks of pensions waiting

At my hour of departure.
                                Rurekyera Geofrey

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