Kenya, Please Love Me Back

My friend told me to move home

like we both don’t know that home

wants me straight

wants me to love how it demands

wants me dead

what’s the difference? 

I say 

No.

I say 

I wish.

I say 

I love you.

I love me. 

The onus is not on me to make our motherland safe for love.  

I say

I want home

and I want home to want me back.