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Am drawn to you It's beyond magnetism  It's that gravitational pull that draws the planets to the stars It's our lives in axis It's the gravitational pull of moons to planets It's that celestial pull that causes tidal waves It's the mirrored effect that lights up the night time sky Am that comet levitating through time and space You're that eternally celestial body drawing me into obit pulling me off course But am an unstoppable force drawn to an immovable object We are an unknown eventuality We are what happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force It's the Irresistible Force Parodox postulated through life's never ending irony

Tuesday 12:30 am Sirens rang over the city as fire trucks and ambulances converged on an isolated house at the edge of Karura forest. The fire was spreading to the trees, threatening to torch Wangari Maathai’s legacy. Alone and seemingly paralyzed in the would be parking lot of the house stood an eight-year-old boy and right beneath his feet lay his four-year-old sister. He stared into the abyss as if waiting for something or someone to reach out, oblivious of the firefighters and the first responders who were by now trying to break into the blazing inferno. His sister grubs his leg as she comes to; he reaches down and lifts her up never once turning his gaze away from the spreading fire. ‘Are you ok, let me examine you’ One responder jolts him back to the madness going on around him. He looks straight into her eyes with an empty gaze that mirrors the sense of loss that he has just undergone. His clothes are burnt and shredded, some pieces adhesively glued to his skin, clear