"REGRESSION" by KIMUTAI KEMBOI ALLAN

And the remnants are here

Sans sticks

No tufts of grass in their mouths

Sapiens of a past eon

They are chatting away easily

On fragile smartphones

Afraid of calls

And we are jettisoned to the past.

The world walked forward in agile steps

We are now running back to barbarism

In fast steps

Brother eating into brother

The industrialists smoking our planet

And the news is a political reel

We are chasing immigrants out!

Bio: Kimutai Kemboi Allan is a Kenyan writer residing in Nairobi. His works have been published or are forthcoming in Bitter Melon Review, ManicWorld Magazine, Eulogy Press, The Stray Branch, Crescent Currents, Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine, The Wayfarer Art and Literary Journal, Everscribe Magazine, the RIC Journal, DoubleSpeak Magazine, MEN: An International Anthology of African and Latin American Writers, the Redefining Poetry Anthology by Litterateur RW magazine, the "Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology'', “Our Stories Redefined Anthology for African Writing 2023 (Poetry Edition)”, The Piker Press, Prodigy Magazine, Our Poetry Archive, the INK Babies Literary Magazine, Written Tales, African Global Networks (AGN), Ake Review, The Active Muse, The Writer’s Space Africa, The Kalahari Review, The Naluubale Review, Writers Resist and Havik’s 2020 Anthology (Homeward). He is currently working on a Collection of Poems.