A Friability Test
By Kimutai Allan
You can try
muzzling the press
and stifling healthy discourse.
They are actions, easy.
It’s a different tale
down in our hearts.
You can’t break us.
We aren’t as friable as
your petty thoughts deem.
Kimutai Allan is an emerging Kenyan writer. His works have been published previously by The Active Muse, The Writer’s Space Africa, the Kalahari Review and the Naluubale Review. He is currently working on a collection of poems.
Photo credit: The image of “Censor” by Eric Drooker was shot by Luciano, via a Creative Commons license.