FALLING

I am a portrait of you
That's what kept flying through my ears
Even before I learnt to walk or talk
But each time I cast my mind  back
The structure that you tried to put up,
The foundation you laid
Has fallen completely apart by your own hands
So how can I be a chip of the old block
When you put everything to self- destruct?


Your house was washed ashore
By your own raged waves
You stored anger
On the anchor that was meant
To hold the storm in your sails
So she, the one you carelessly sent off your ship,
Joined another sail and Surfed to a treasure island
And now you are wrecked
Left alone on a no man's land
Trying to find your way back home
From being washed ashore to loneliness and regrets
Abandoned  your only son in the middle of no where
With his feet dangling in the air
Struggling to swim away from
This deserted barren piece of land
Suffocating and gasping for breath
To escape drowning in this
Sands of time


This quicksand you planted
Under my feet has reached
The peak of cultivation
And it keeps yielding hold backs
And blockages from attaining goals
Embrace me into your warm arms
You are made of thorns and ice
Always cold towards me
Like you love me more than life
Stay away from me,I want to be with you
I despise you, you are my first love
You showed me no love
Yet I can not hate you
For blood they say is thicker than water

SUN DOWN

Under the old baobab tree,

Standing dead like a log in the middle
Of these few scattered huts,
I heard Nana talking to a group of new women
Entering into  womanhood

She said,

"I am old,weak and weary and so you see me to be colonial
But I am the seal of a new generation to the youth of today
I am from tomorrow carrying a message from yesterday
Because the future is like a flame
But one can walk through without burning
The future is but just a revelation
Told long ago when we were young

I have seen the unseen and heard hidden truths
Under the the cover of darkness
Right in broad day lights
The secrets of the world seem to disappear
Just because they are all open
Nothing is unknown to me yet I seek for knowledge
About everything the world has to offer
The world is but a novel
I read centuries ago and yet,
The climax never seems to have a resolution
It keeps revolving round and around

People misunderstand my old age
I have experienced
A father's smile,
A daughter's tears
A son's fears
And a mother's sacrifice
I have seen sons turn fathers
And daughters turn  mothers
I have watched day born babies turn adults
I am like the sun, I have been perpetual
But now I am aging, slowly but swiftly growing

I see an eagle hovering over me,
And that eagle is me
I am waiting for the man in the long black robes
To come knocking at my door
And my doors are always open
To the stranger called peace
Whom i have never known my entire years
Spent in this miserable world
I have passed  him many times
And I always stare as he watched back with his scorching eyes
Burning red like the flaming sands

Like I dream,I wake from my slumber
And there before me stands a white horse
And its rider holds a bow
And claims his name is death
He rides on a white bonny horse
Followed by hell
He rides freely like a prisoner
In the world between worlds
Do not panic my dearly beloved
For fear causes in action, in action causes pain
Remember I once told you that
This world will go straight to hell,I hate being right

Hell has frozen over
Because coldness has taken over the hearts of men
The end of days has began
The love for power has become
The demon for all men
Faith is a pillar of human nature
The road between life and death
So I hang on to mine like a loosened vine
With the hope that good
Will always rise like Lazarus from his grave
Destiny is not a matter of chance but choice
And only the man from his grave
Can change the order of chaos
That the world is experiencing

Life is but a series of choices
So I interrogated death
To solve the pieces of puzzle
Confronting death leads to nothing but misery
Yet I asked death mockingly
You cannot be slayed nor stopped
I can have your head but death cannot be silenced
Why?
Then he replied "every man must die"
Death cannot be slayed but trapped
When your time is up
He will surely come for you"

Walls Of My Heart

Something sinister is gestating
Under the cover of bright darkness
I can feel it in my soul

Crawling steadily like a gecko
On the walls of my heart
Flooding straight to my deepest emotions

Fear?
No it is not
What is it that I fear?

Even men of steel do have fears
Men without hearts
Sometimes feel it pounding

Silently
So loud in their veins
Vibrating their bodies

Last year by this time
I saw the kings nakedness
Could this be madness?

Today the gods smiled at me
For my eyes are still alive
To witness more signs

The king was bald
In the midst of an awaiting crowd
Panting and chanting

The name of a king
Not seated on the throne
Yet they hailed his name

Today a child was born
On this same very day,
Hell was born on earth

Heaven was gone
And the sky was full of dust
With flaming rivers

Burning all the mountains
Built on the clouds
Like the rains

Lost Paradise

You broke me by tearing me apart
You brought me to my feet by breaking me down
'If you don't stand for something,
You will fall for anything,' was all you could say
But I fell for something so I stood for anything
I stood for anything because I fell for something
And you did not only mean something but
everything
Where anything became my everything
And something meant nothing to me
Because I was left alone with nothing to hold me
down
I was not a successful man, I will admit
Otherwise, there would be something
Holding me down because I stood for you
But you broke me lose and set the demon free
I am a free man now and it hurts
My rib is lost; I am empty
My better half is gone; I am single
I used to be a four legged creature under my
blanket
But I am now deformed and its all because of
you
It has been like forever since you've been gone.
You made my road so foggy in the middle of this
rocky world
With my thoughts as a heavy load
Which I carry on my back like a hunchback
Where did our fragile hearts go?
Did they travel and never came back?
Or perhaps as you always say
'They have flew to the forgotten paradise'

MYSTIC FALLS

Love brought me here
And love drove me out of here
I am different from you
I am human,I am a monster
My soul yearns for you, I am soulless
My heart beats for you,I am heartless
I died years ago,I am immortal
Death sees me as an arch but I will die for you
This is not right
It can't be possible, but it is happening
Stay away from me,I am glued to you
Flee from me,you are a part of me
I am a predator, you are my prey
Hate me,you are in love with me
I can't love you but I love you
I am not like you
I am a soulless monster
I am a killing machine
I suck blood out of humans
I am a beast,don't admire me
I kill to survive
I know no body
I have trained my soul
But I don't know when I can
Explode again
I am the ripper,I will fix you up
This love is mystic
Beautiful like a water falls
And it is in mystic falls
I found such love
Love brought me to mystic falls
Same love drove me out of mystic falls
I can't help it
Watching the one I love
Love my brother

A Home Not Mine

The world is our home
But we don't own it
We came with nothing
So we shall go
Why then
Single handedly
Carry the world
On your shoulder
The world is for us
It is not ours
None of us own it
But it is ours
Why look down on me?
Because of your power
This power Would not even last
For ever
But had it not been
For my power
Would you have turned
Your back on me
Or on us?
The very ones
Who gave you power
This power won't
Make you live forever
Neither will it last forever
The same way
You and I came?
The same way
You and I shall go
We came from dust
Into dust shall we go
Don't rob Peter
To pay Paul
Its nature!
You can never cheat on
You are highly regarded
You are highly respected
You are way above me
But what puts us
On the same scale
Is mother nature
Hate me!
Imprison me!
Torture me!
That won't change the fact that
Power is nothing
If it is not used Efficiently
Like sand
Through the fingers Misunderstand me
For i understand you
Because I stay under you
But when we finally depart
From the world?
You will know
We were always
On the same level
That is what life is about
We came
Surely we shall go
Life is a journey
Not a destination
There are no mistakes
Its chances taken
Through the pain,
Through the rain
Life must finally reach
Its destination
There we leave the world
Behind
And head towards
Our final destination

Velvet Skin

You have cheated on me
You enjoyed her in bed didn't you?
She was better than me wasn't she?
Don't just stare at me,answer me!
You made love to her
So says your son,what do you say?


I say let's not wash our dirty clothes outside
I can't deny these alligations
Trust dies because bad pay poisons him
I did enjoyed her but its you I love
Blame me not,its my fault
I did right but I accept my mistake
I was a mendicant in her land
I was a victim of her Cecity
She was of royalty
And I had no objections to her demands


Oh come on!
You are fearless and brave
You slay thousands with
A sling of your sword
I am not convinced
But I understand you
The power of a woman
The strength of a woman
Lies in her mouth
Her tongue sweet as sugar
Deceitful as Lucifar,beautiful like a serpent
You fell victim to her
Just like you were to me
On our first encounter
So I forgive you


Can I hold you now?
Can I touch?
I miss your soft velvet skin
Your sweet tenderness
And all your perfect imperfections
Being in the battle field for uncountable days
And now it feels like harmony
Your presence is like heaven to me
I am with you now
And forever more

UNDERCOVER

She exist in a different world
I look at her face and I smile always
Looking back at me, she does same
Motionless but she wears a smile
On her bright beautiful face
Making the sun shy away
With her mouth shut,she talks
Speechless but I hear her voice
Tickling my ears, causing tears to flow from my
eyes
My mind is free, but she is always on my mind
Right in front of me but I miss her presence

I see her vividly but its her I seek for
I kiss her on the lips every morning when I wake
And when I am about to sleep at night
But I wonder how her lips will feel like
A phantom she is in my fantasy world
But I know she exists
Not among the soulless and lifeless
But a part of the living census,she is
She makes my world complete
But I need her in my life to make my world
complete
If I should take a trip to out of space,she will be
the one I will see
With the key to heavens gate
She will be right there with an open arm
Like a smile waiting for me
At the gates of everlasting flames
Burning eternally mortal souls without any ashes

I know it is wrong to love her
It is just not right but that's how it feels
Daughter of Hades,Full of deceit and lies
But I believe her every word
You don't won't to see the real me she always
says
I am a monster I tell you
I walk on earth undercover
I am a devil in disguise
That was not how I was
But I have been stripped of my tenderness and
loving heart
And now I nakedly expose my other side
The part that knows no mercy nor compassion
Like a bird my wings is broken
So I can fly no more
And now I am stacked on earth
With no shoulder to lean on
Don't judge me,I am on a judgement quest
I pass judgement unto those who broke me down
It wasn't my intention my intentions were clean
So you can't love me I will drag you to Paradise
I am heartless but I can't watch you burn in
eternal flames

I could mend her broken wing
So she can fly again
But I don't want to lose everything
That I have gained, making me a selfish man
Without her my heart will beat no more
She looks like a girl but she is a flame
Her eyes blazing red like an erupted volcano
Medusa she is,half human half serpent
One stern look from her sends
Ones soul out of their bodies
I know who she is,
She is a fallen Angel
With the tongue of the serpent Himself
But I love her and I never want to let go
Drag me with you,I am willing
To spend life eternally with you
My beautiful monster
Beautiful like the ocean blue, scary like the
raging storm
Looking at her with complete Aphony
I can describe her like i am suffering from
amnesia

Above all we are in love
And I want to lead her to the altar
After all I am an Adonis
And we make a perfect match
I am her heels of Achilles,she is powerful beyond
measures
Together we can live an Arcadian life
But It is like I have an axe to grind
She is as ageless as the sun and I am aging
Ancient as the stars,and I am current
She is awful as silent and pitch as a starless
night
But she is blameless as snow
And we are deep as hell in love
This is a dangerous love affair
The story never told

CHOICES

I sat quietly as thoughts run speedily through my
mind like a river. Flooding its banks and taking
absolute control over everything around its
surrounding. What I was really thinking about,I
did not know. I was sinking in my own
thoughts,or probably I was drowning in my own
pool of tears. Like Alice, I was in wonder land
Maybe I should just end the story tragically.
Suddenly like a movie, my mind carried me back
to three years ago when we met. Sitting under
that old deserted tree that distinguishes itself
from the few trees at the foot ball field. It was a
cold and foggy morning and one could feel the
harshness of the harmattan all around town.
Despite the harsh chillness of the weather,the
scorching sun couldn't afford to miss its
prescence, creating a mixed feeling for everyone
like we were victims of malaria fever. Feeling
warm and cold at the same time can be a very
uneasy situation to cope with, but not for the
inhabitants of the mountainous areas. They are
used to the weather condition especially at this
festive moments. Rumours had made it well
known to me that mystical creatures with
supernatural powers dwelt among humans in
these parts of the world. Valley view, Twin
mountain and the likes are vicinities victimised
of these mystical creatures according to the
mutual friend of everyone "Rumour". Now talking
of where we met, Clara and I met on one of
these festive occasions. Walking boastfully
around with stern curiosity, I spotted this quiet
extremely beautiful young lady probably a year or
two younger than me or maybe three,dark, short
and her eyes glittering like pieces of diamonds in
the Sun's rays. Like a butterfly to a flower,I was
attracted to her instantly. Looking a bit nervous
from the beginning guess she couldn't resist my
charm either. According to her she was feeling
uneasy and she was seeking for refuge under the
shades of the trees. Clara explained she was
new in town and so was i. The festival was the
only thing she came to witness while I had a
different agenda. "Adventure" it was. After a bit
taste of curiosity I couldn't miss to spice my day
up with a little bit of adventure. I was itching to
know more about this particular festival and also
to explore the town more. Having witnessed the
spectacular display from the crowd in their
various arts, which included gymnastics,acro
batics,fireworks which was one of my personal
favorites and many more,the sun was almost
completely out now and I had to go. I told Clara
it was nice meeting her and hope to meet her
again,we exchanged contacts but she insisted
she would have loved to go with me to see my
house but she had to wait for the sun to settle
down before she can leave. Was she waiting for
someone? She said no but the sun's rays burnt
her too much. Burning from sun rays is not
something new in Africa, it is something all
Africans suffer from and are probably quite
familiar with now except that may be you are
new in the system but according to her she has
been here for some years now. I decided to
leave her behind but on a second thought,I gave
her a ride in my brand new Mercedes. Inside the
car she told me strange stories of how she
became a demon.
"This was not who I am and this was not what i
was
I once had a life
I once loved and cared
I once had loved ones
I once had friends
I once had a family
But now I am alone
I scare the hell out of people, I am not scary
I once had choices I made
But now I am different
I am human,I am a monster
I am a vegetarian, I hate fruits and vegetables
I love them and they make me want to vomit
I am allergic to meat,flesh and blood is my
favorite dish
It wasn't my motive
I was forced to make that choice
After all it wasn't my choice
I was dying before my time,my time was up
And so I signed a pact with the devil
I made no deal,but we have a deal
The only way to survive was to feed
On human blood
I suck every drop of blood out of humans
I am human,I am immortal
I did it for every body, I was selfish
I hate what I am but i love my self
I can not be killed
I am immune to death
Nothing can kill me except that a stake in the
heart with a wooden object
Will send my soul to a peaceful rest eternally
I am strong and fast
I am fearless
I am way to black to burn from sun rays but that
is what I burn from
I can't last for an hour in the sun
I will turn to ashes
I am an abomination to nature
Don't judge me,tell me I don't deserve to live
Tell me I don't deserve to be loved
“I don't pretend to know what love is for
everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me;
love is knowing all about someone, and still
wanting to be with them more than any other
person, love is trusting them enough to tell them
everything about yourself, including the things
you might be ashamed of, love is feeling
comfortable and safe with someone, but still
getting weak knees when they walk into a room
and smile at you
Let the world despise you for who you are
I will still love you no matter what
I don't care who you are
What you did or what you have become
All that matters is I love you
Just let me in,I am at your hearts door
And let me love you until you learn to love
yourself
You were mine right from Adam
And in you I find my lost rib
In you I find my joy and happiness
I will stay with you forever
And I am not giving up on you
Never!!"
It was a long ride through town and I really did
have quite an adventure. Clara and I had lived
happily as lovers for about a year or two now
without any arguments,quarreling nor fights. With
my aid she no longer drained human blood she
depended on that of animals and everything was
fine, but why the sudden change now? She left
on the table a note that read "Please I don't
want to hurt you. I really do love you but for the
sake of that love I have to leave you. My burning
sensation for blood has aroused again more
intensely of late. And it has been tormenting me
,I don't know when I might explode and go wild.
Please do take care. When I am over with that
hunger,I will come back to you but when I don't
please be free to move on. Always remember
that I love you."
Yours ever.
Clara

Friends With The Bottle

Do you know why I drink?
I drink because the bottle is my only friend
It understands and comforts me
It gives me hope and invites me to a world of my
own
Apart from the bottle,every other person thinks
I am useless,worthless and unimportant
Nobody recognizes me at gatherings
They think I talk nothing sensible
Just because I don't see the impossible
I speak thrash, listen to my words of wisdom
Whatever that comes out of my mouth is
nonsense
But it makes complete sense
Don't undermine because I don't think the way
you do
I don't see things the way you do
Doesn't mean I am blind
You are blind to the fact
And to the truth, you are deaf and dumb
But I suffer less from such casualties
I am not visually impaired neither am I insane
I am the true definition of freedom
I do what I want when I want
I say what I want how I want
Never think I have no secrets, I have secrets but
they are open
I see what you cannot see using binoculars
My eyes are microscopic
I see beyond the invisible
Thanks to my trusted friend
The only friend I have in this world
The bottles, not empty bottles
Empty bottles are useless,unless they are filled
with the magical potion
The bottle is my friend
And I am friends with the bottle

Fair For A Firefly II

I walked lonely
Along the path
Covered by trees
In the middle of
The night.
Darkness!
Was everywhere
Making it difficult
To see a thing.
But in the middle
Of the darkness,
I was
Surrounded
By light.
Its not magic!
Miraculous
Is how best
I can describe
What met my
Mortal eyes.
Magnificent!
Spectacular!
Even though
I was enveloped
In total darkness,
Blinded by the
Dark but
I still saw her.
She was a thing
Of beauty.
A blessing to
Nature
And a victor over
Darkness.
She flew ahead
Of me like a
Mockingbird,
A miniature
Aircraft
With a bright light
At the bottom.
Made by no one,
But the supreme
One.
Luminous!
She was alone
Leading my path
And I followed
Their lead.
I was not lost
I just couldn't
Find my way.
Oh yes!
I did follow them.
You heard me
Right
I am not wrong,
Neither am I
Confused.
It was her!
And then another
Her appeared.
And then another
Again and again
Till there was
A trillion of her
Kind.
I have never
Met so much
I have heard
Of fireflies,
But I have
Never seen so
Many like this
Before.
Beautiful!
Words can't
Describe.
Like diamond
Pieces
Flying around
Me.
Talking of
Diamonds,
I have heard of
Some
In the skies.
I have seen
Their beauty,
But they are
Nothing
Compared to
What I am seeing
Now.
What I see now?
They are not far
From my reach
Compared to the
Ones above the
World so high.
Those are
Diamonds
In the sky,
Very far away.
But these are
Flying diamonds
Hovering
All over me

When Good Bye Is Not Enough

My limb is broken
I have lost a rib
How can i survive?
With my backbone gone
What can I lean on?
And who will support me?
I feel deeply wounded
In the upper left part of my chest
And i am bleeding internally
Weakening me slowly but swiftly
Oh! How can I be a mother and a father
How do I perform all the duties
How can I show motherly and fatherly love
Impossible! but it's happening
I am submerging in sorrow
Sinking deeply in the quicksand
My garment is made of sorrow,
It's like a robe which covers me up like a weed
I am engraved with pain
If tears could bring you back to life,
You would have acquired an immortal soul by
now
No amount of compensation
Can cover up the space you left
In my heart, you have created a rift
That can never be sealed
Not even with the stone of tears
Where ever you may be now
Watch my tears and agony
And always remember
That your days are gone
But you are never over
You still have special places
In the hearts of your beloved ones
Till we meet again,farewell

The Sweetness That Kills

I am going down slowly,I am falling
I am falling fast and can get hurt but I am happy
Like the wind I am suspending,I don't want to
fall for you
I don't want to fall asleep,unless I am falling for
you
Like the rain,I only fall on the soils of your heart
When you look at me,I feel I am the answer to
every question under the sun
My mind is occupied with thoughts of you
When I hear your name,I freeze inside
My heart skips a beat,I become lifeless

I am so afraid that I could die in your arms and it
feels alive
Your presence is like heaven to me
Send me to an endless sleep where the antidote
to waking up lies in your true love's kiss
Your love makes me stronger, I am feeble
Take my life, its all yours
I can't imagine your lips against mine,your arms
around my neck
With us tightly glued together, body to body
I can't stand it I will die from sweetness
Kill me with your sweetness, I can't live without
you
You are killing me softly,I will die without you in
my life

You eyes shine so bright like the sun
Looking at them,I freeze
You are not perfect, you exceed perfection
Your attitude, character and your behavior
Your body defines beauty within a beauty,a
jealous element for beauty herself
You are beautiful my love,your beauty is
immeasurable
Beautiful within, beautiful every where
Beautiful as the sun,beautiful as the moon
Let us live together like there is no need of
time,for eternity just ended
You are an angel on earth,sent right from heaven
above

I will love you till the end of time,I will love you
forever
Love is bitter-sweet
Love hurts because it is sweet
Love is sweet because it hurts
Love is sweet,it is painful
Love brings joy, it is grievous
But a life without love,will be incomplete
My life is complete but not without you

Dark Night

Please baby don't leave
If you go how can I live?
Your love is like a sweet poison
Like a slave I am locked in your prison
Where you heal me by making my life short
You go to church in white but in the dark,black
prophets you go to sort
Yet you claim you are a Christian,only God you
consult
You do nothing but only pour insults
Even when you are at fault
You stabbed me in the dark even though I stood
by you like a fort
You vowed your love was everlasting
But it was never lasting
You are a slow poison
Killing me swiftly for no reason
And all you keep saying is
Please baby don't leave
If you go,how can I live?
Thanks to God,I am still alive
For all you were after was my life
Sell more excuses, I am not buying
No way sweet heart!,I can take it no more
Those crocodile tears,I feel nothing for them any
more
Once bitten,twice shy
I want to see you no more,don't even try
Like the prodigal son,I have learnt my lesson
If I love no more, you are the reason
Please baby don't leave
If you go how can I live?
Don't even mention it!,I mean it!
If you can't live, I can live
Today I am serving you with papers, I am
divorcing you
Go find somebody else,and make him miserable
like you did to me
But always remember that, what goes around
comes back around

Lost On An Open Road

Follow your heart
And I did,
Without inquiring
Where it led.
Now I am in the
Middle
Of nowhere.
I am not lost,
I am only trying to find
My way.
I believe in my
Heart.
It will never
Disappoint
Me.
I know exactly
Where I am,
Where am I?
I am not confused,
I want to know.
I have been here before,
I know this place
I have been here.
In a dream within
A dream
I have not lost my
Memory
I just can't
Remember.
I have lost my
Sight,
I am not blind
But blind folded.
And i can see

Clearly
What I have been
Searching for.
I always thought
I knew where
To find
Love.
Always thought
I will be ready
And strong enough.
I never thought
I could be here
But here I am.
Somewhere I
Never thought
I would be.
Now I see
What love
Means.
I can feel
The beauty!
Of love.
Unbelievable!
Her smile
Melts the sun,
Her eyes shine
Like a black star,
Casting a bright
Shadow like white
Clouds enveloping
The full moon at
Its brightest glow.
Her voice sings a
Soothing melody
That melts the
Soul.
I can hear her
Heart beat
From a million
Miles away.
I am in love
And I am not
Letting go.
The road to love
Is not straight.
It is parallel but
Always meets at
One point in time.
How we met was
A mystery.
But our story shall
Remain history.
I felt like giving up,
I never doubted
I surrendered
But I listened
To the language
Of the heart.
And it never lied
It knew the way.
It is a broad
But narrow way.
To get there
I had to
Drive
Straight on a road
Full of nails.
I have passed
Through hell
Just to get me
To heaven.

An Angel In Hell

He was a free giver, he never gave for free
He was always in white yet enveloped in
darkness
He was a blessing to his people yet the cause of
all their plight
Always getting richer and richer yet his people,
poorer and poorer
He is the pauper, what is money in his sight
He is a cushion for money, he slept on money
Money is like a river he swims in,money dived
deep into his heart
So he did what he had to do to get money, he
was innocent
He did it for his own greed yet for the benefit of
all
He owns billions of billions, he is poor
He gives with a clean open heart,he is filthy rich
Poverty, like a boat in the midst of a storm
Overshadowed his village
They were surviving from hand to mouth
Nobody was coming to their aid, nobody was
willing to help
So he had to make an alliance with the devil
With no risk involved,he made the deadly alliance
He made a sacrifice no man will dare,
An act of foolishness but bravery
He sold his man hood to his brotherhood,he is
not impotent
He is potent yet he knows no connection with
the opposite sex
He walks naked in the market square at mid
night,he is not shopping
Talking to nobody but himself, he is sane
He had bad intension, his intension was clean
He loved the wealth but he loved his people

more
His wealth was bloody but he never spilt any
blood
His acquisition of infinite wealth drowned his
village in poverty
That was the secret of the brotherhood
He never knew what he had gotten himself into
He only thought sacrificing a part of himself was
all
But more sacrifices was reacquired
He tried questioning his superiors in the
brotherhood
But he was stroke with blindness
He was later revived on another condition
He now fled to seek refuge,he was brave
Then he was visited by the spirit of madness
The love of money is the route of all evil
Hate him not,he is a hero
He saved his village from poverty
But the fate of his people hanged on his
shoulder
And now that he is exposed, their pillar is broken
But at least he has taught them something good
To stand up for themselves

A Wish For Christmas

I wish Christmas never passed
I wish it never came
All the merry moments
And the magnificent
Display of fireworks
The flowing of gifts
And presents in abundance
The bountiful display
Of food and drinks
The breathtaking
Decoration of trees
And houses
The glow of candlelight
On dining tables
Like the burning of moonlight
From the sky above
All the joyous and
The gay moments
I wished they never passed
I wished they never came
Misunderstand me!
I still remain same
Have you ever thought!
About those?
Those who are held hostage
By sickness and diseases
Those who could not
Afford a daily meal?
Those roaming
On the streets?
Those sleeping in the open,
Where the sky is their only roof?
You and I know
I speak the truth!
And I need no proof
Don't stand aloof!
What I speak is news
The ear is tired of
Listening and hearing
I speak for myself,
I speak for the speechless
I am a mouthpiece
For the public
Call me the wanderer
Thinking of myself
I think about others too
We are only humans
We are all the same
Why then should
Some be gay and
Then others, gloomy
Moody and sad
All the joyous moments
That never lasts for ever
The way Christmas brings
Golden rays of smiles like sunlight
And then it suddenly disappears
I wish it stays forever, but it never does
Thinking of all these
I only wish Christmas
Never passed
I wish it never came

The Messenger

I carry message from the dead
I am not dead, neither am I from the dead
I am the living dead
I communicate with the dead
I am the mouthpiece of the departed souls
A gift I bestowed upon myself with grave
compulsion
They dont choose me ,I am the chosen one
I chose myself to talk
In their favor
I am only pretending
But whatever I say
Is always the truth
With me,all secrets are open and closed
I know everything because
I need to survive on my own
You are covered with filth
Yet you pretend to be holy
Greedy bastards!,learn to give
Pathetic!
Peasants!
Some people had to die
So you could acquire your wealth
Filthy wealth!
I will drain you wisely
You fools!
People loose every day
So you can gain
People die every blessed day
So you could live
Where was your conscience?
When you were spilling blood
When you were forcibly
Taking what is not due you
People suffer for you to only gain
And you make merry
For them to suffer the pain?
Then I am sorry
For I am here
And I carry a message from
All of your victims
Those ones you robbed and slaughtered
The ones you brutally murdered
For your selfish deeds
Shiver not,there is no problem
That money can't solve
You fear of being exposed
But that is against the rules
The Pareto rule you survived on
What goes around,
Surely comes back around
I must expose you
To be covered
I will no longer live
From hand to mouth
Now that I know all
Of your evil deeds
People suffered for you
So you could enjoy
Now is the time to return
That very same favor
I deliver false message
To get true facts
I predict to dig the truth
Then I bury the truth
In order to resurrect a lie

Now people must be recipients
For I am the messenger

BLEEDING

Dad walked home one night
Drenched and highly perfumed
With the stench of alcohol
He mised the way to his room
A couple of times before finally finding his way
in
He was intoxicated and wasted
Mum followed up
To the bed room
The next thing that came
Was a scream for help
Then she fled from the room
To the hall with dad
After her in a hot pursuit
His face,beaming red with anger
His eyes, flaming red
He grabs a glass from the table
And throws it at mum
Dad!, I screamed at him to stop
But the glass misses mum
Hits the wall and splits into pieces
Now a heart has been crushed
A family has been broken
A dream has been shattered
Mum leaves for she can
No more take the heat any longer
She gave up not, she was brave
If she stayed who knows
She might have ended in up her grave
Every day her tears flows
Nourishing the ground with sorrow
Now in my heart is an arrow
Deeply buried inside of me
I bleed anytime I remember
Dad was a good man
But why that sudden change?
A doctor I had always dreamt of
But now look at me
The streets has become my shield
My only protector and shelter
I wanted to save lives
To make ends meet
But now I make ends meet
By taking lives
I wanted to be helpful in society
But now society is helpful to me
No pity for the pity,
The pitied pities me
Point no fingers at me
I am the center of attraction
Don't judge me,I am not evil
Call me the builder,I demolish things
Hide your wealth from me,they are mine
For I get what I want when I want
Don't fix me, I will fix you
I am not the fixer but if you come
From a family where everything
Is broken,you learn to fix things
Watch me as I fix my new life

I Walked With You Once Upon A Dream

I know them,you know them,we know them
Their words are the cut that we bleed of
Their mouths are the pit we are exiled into
Their tongues are slippery
They are the climbing plants
That binds us with lies into servitude
They are the nails on the roads we walk on
Who are they?,I have already told you
I know them, you know them, we know them
Every body does, they are every where
They are our heads and we follow their lead
They are always at the top of the ladder
We took them to the top,
Yet we remain at the bottom
Their mouth so sweet yet salty
Bitter but sweet full of words and not deeds
We gave them power,we are powerless
Hypocrites!all they do is to pretense
They will come, throw their dignity at our feet
Just to gain power and authority
And after getting what they want
They ignore us and regard us less
Our leaders are the tears we cry
They are the plagues that strike us
They have infested our land
With corruption and bribery
They deprive us of our own properties
Freedom is like religion to us
Staying peaceful is the most
Powerful weapon we yearn for
The movement is a rhythm to us
Justice is just a position in us
Justice for all is not specific enough
We are blinded by the many dusts
That they throw into our eyes
We have had enough of their lies
But every blessed day it seems
They are just getting started
We can build mansions from
The dust they have left on our eyes
And out of that same dust,
They build castles in the air
Their promises are not just empty, they are
worthless
Greed and selfishness has enveloped
Their whole body and minds
They care less about we their people
But in case they need a reminder
A war can never be won single handedly
It takes the wisdom of the old
And the strength of the young to win
We are through with your deceptive mouths
Pathological liars! you need medication
Very soon they will come craving for power
Again and again till they get it
They have always got us talking
Yet they are not ready to change
We will stop talking when we see change
So you better think twice and be men of deeds
Or you will forever remain
Gardens full of weeds

I Embarked On This Journey

I embarked on this voyage a lone man
With the black version of myself as a companion
The world was my path and destiny was a map I
followed
Fate was a broad but narrow road that led me
To my unknown destination
I walked till my feet hurts and could carry me no
more
Yet my journey seemed endless
Hope was a binocular which I spied through
Because I knew not what lied ahead
The future remained a mystery
And the past was a history
I only strived hard to attain victory
But some day,glory will prevail
Behind each day is a veil
Only the future knows what's behind
So we live each day to leave a veil uncovered
But until when shall we uncover all
Because the days are numbered
Each time the sun rises and fall
Many a times that can't even be remembered
Some times it leads us to obstacles
Huge as mountains that requires miracles
To overcome yet we still fight on
The journey of a lone man
Requires no road,nor trail
It is an endless journey
We came alone,and alone we shall go
Each man is alone on his tracks
It is not a race,nor a competition either
It is not a war,it is a challenge
It only reacquires determination
It is a journey,not a destination
It is like a ladder which has an end
It is endless, only Heaven knows
The end of the lone man's journey

I Need You

I need you every now and then
I need you in the day time
Especially through the wicked nights
With our mouths, hugging
Our arms,forming a tight belt
Drawing our waist together
And let me write my name in your thighs
It shall take a life time to separate
You and I tonight, and everyday
I miss you like how i miss last year and the
years after that
Come and let's cover our bodies
With the colourful night
So I can get inside of you
And write my name in your heart
With your hands scratching
My back till we see a baby born
All in a days work, and thus tonight
Swallow me like Jonah
In the belly of the whale
Into your world of eternal joy
That seems to last forever
You are all over my system
And I still want more of you
If my arms are wide
If I open my eyes
All I want to see
Is your face smiling at me
Like the stars from the skies above
Smile,and let's illuminate the world with love
Today I will die right in your arms,I will die on top
of the world
And resurrect on the same day
Let's hush the world, in the rising twilight
I can feel your presence,even in your absence
I kissed your soft succulent lips
And heaven felt like the taste of your spittle
Our tongues hugged each other
As emotions rose wildly to meet tension
On the able of laps of the earth,I was breast fed
With the milk of reality for eternity
And it is never enough because, I need you

War On Death

Charge! We are on the battle field
We cry for war to call for peace
Hear our voices as we chant war songts
Songs of redemption
Victory songs
Archers,shoot lightening from your bows
Make a shield wall
Save yourselves,protect the king
Let your feet talk to the ground
Let the skies feel the roar of thunder
Emerging from the ground
As you stamp your feet
You are men not women
Make no space for cowardice
Fill your hearts with flames
Fear death not but stay alive
There are a uncountable ways to die,choose one
Do not seek for death, death will find you ready
or not
Whether it is your time or not
People defame death but life makes you suffer
Do not let death be grateful today
Turn your enemies to dust
Eradicate your foes with a smile
All the Gods dwell in you
No matter what night mares
The future holds, there is nothing
Compared to the dreams behind us
The fate of every soldier lies
In the hands of a dark eternity slumber
And so is every man, but we choose our fate
today
We shall rewrite our destiny
And today,we set forth

A Will I Never Wrote

Swords slashing throats.
Ripping heads of shoulders,
Leaving soldiers swimming in their own bloody
pools.
On the hard grounds of the battle field.
Fighting for Greece, fighting for Rome.
Fighting for Sparta,fighting for Athens.
Fighting for love, fighting for hate.
Fighting for honour,fighting for pride.
Fighting with joy from the rage within.
Spare them,kill them all.
Feel the wrath of Achilles mighty sword.
Feel the spike of the mighty Hercules.
Strong like Samson,weak within.
Fearless like a coward,retreat like the brave.
Fear less, to be fearless.
No retreat,no surrender
Like a cold wind,fell the warmth.
I died at war,burry me in peace.
Let the scavengers perform not my postmortem.
Keep me not, at the open mortuary.
Don't let me be at war whiles i rest in peace.
For the love of all I fought,I fought for nothing.
Kill me, I am a dead man.
Bow to me,I am your slave.
Do as you please with me now,I am your king.
I am gone,remember me with a befitting burial.
Let me lie on a bed of roses, in my wooden
house.
Let the guns talk to the Skies.
Let the world know a great man has departed.
That is my will,I never wrote.

STORY

I have a story to tell,I am dumb
It is a long story,it is a short story
This is not a dream,it is a story
A story of love,a story of hate
A story of life,a story of death
A story of peace, a story of war
A true life story, a mere fiction
A myth turning to truth and truth a myth
This is the story of my life,this is our story
This is my biography,this is your story
This is our history, this is just a fairytale
This is a story of true love
Written by the broken hearted
A story never told but heard
A story never written but read
This is a dream full of nightmares
This is not a dream yet it all happened
Once upon a dream,when we met
We met in a movie and you asked
When do we meet again? Behind the scenes was
the reply
We met in a dream and you asked
When do we meet again?
When you are wide awake was the reply
And if being wide awake means
Dreaming of you no more
Then I don't want to meet you
I want an endless sleep
Filled with infinite dreams of you
This is a love story written by
The one who never loved
The story of a generous man who never gave
A warrior who never went to war
But fought and won many battles
A brave man but died in cowardice

A Poem's Love

I will pour my heart out
With my ink on the soils of my paper
Like a seed, i burry my voice deep
In the heart of my lover
I will make joy flow through
Her soul like a tamed river
Flooding its territories
As she reads my painting
Of her whole body on my paper
I will burry my heart in my ink
And sow it in the soils of my paper
To put a smile on her face
Like the sun does to the world
Every blessed morning
Like my poems,she is my main priority
I will do nothing but everything for her

I will give her my everything
And I will never be left with nothing
Because she will always share
Like I do on my social media walls
And she is never bothered about comments
Because no matter what happens
I am the only one man she likes
It has been a while now
And I haven't felt the touch
Of your beautiful ink on my body
Your touch so tender and soft
And the way you handle words
On me like a glossary, carefully
Like a poet and his diction
I miss you like your paper misses
The touch of your pen
And the flow of your ink on its body
Love me like you love yourself
And I will love you more than
I love myself
Handle me with care like I am never yours but, I
am all yours
I give you nothing but my everything

I am nothing,take me as your everything
For my heart beats for nothing but you
Give me your life like you do to words
Form a pyramid of strong words
To guide the love we share
I am the poet and you are the poem
Like my paper loves my ink
I will love you like each lines
And stanzas of my poem
I will handle you carefully
And perfectly like a favorite character
In my favorite book
I want to be with you tonight
I want to sit by your bed And watch you as you
sleep
So I can write you in a poem
Weave you carefully with alphabets

I will take my time to draw
Every curves and shapes of you
In my little writings with my ink
You will make such a wonderful ink
Your portrait will be one of a kind
Beautifully painted in a poem
Making the world jealous
Tonight you will be my dream
I will dance on your beautiful
Soft,smooth velvet skin
Like my pen does on my paper
And the world with a face beaming with smiles
Will sigh with relief when they read
The beautifully,carefully woven words of you

SOULESS

Strolling inside the painted forest
I came across an open treasure
As I wander in my soulless body
I feel the presence of your absence
So deeply that it hurts more than sweetness
I want to be on my own with you by my side
Walking side by side yet I am alone
With my thoughts hidden in the colourful night
Awaiting the rise of the dark nights
Accessory cinerary from blazing heart
Oozing through my flooded emotions
Like a supercilious river
Feel the coldness of the vibrant fire
Oceanic flames circulating through my veins
The very moment we received
The malediction of a benediction
I knew we were built to fall apart
Blind folded, I can find my way
Kiss me with your succulent lips
Knotted with cursory animosity
Inanimate, take my life for it is all yours
Tear me apart limb by limb like you are fixing me
But my heart will still beat for you
As awkward as a cow in ice,yet it is the truth I
speak
You are my debility,you are my fortitude
Your heart is transparent and I can't see through
But I can see the deceptive truth hidden under
The dark nights in your eyes
Coated with sweet truthful lies
I know we are never meant to be together
But together we are meant to be

WINDS

Yesterday, a strong wind blew pass my house:
Pass my window like it was on a mission
From the far west to deliver a message to me.
A wind so strong that I felt my house move
And floating in the skies
Like an innocent bird scared by the night.

It was a dream, perhaps, an imagination.
I saw it come in the dark like the thief of the
night.
It stole everything that he could see.
I saw it sweep away lost dream and hopes.
Unanswered prayers and unsung songs
Empty promises and dead aspirations
Beauty and tragedy.

I watched all and prayed.
I stood there and asked myself
"Will the world be free from evil?"
But then I asked myself
"Who am I?"
Then I answered myself
I am a moving piece of work
A walking poem
A portrait painted in the clouds

But more importantly I am;
The liar who seeks the truth
The voice of the people
I am a dream, the present and the future
Most importantly
I am that wind that
Seeks to make the world
A better place

A Revolution On The West Coast

Help me eliminate the king
To kill the king for no reason?
This is a big treason

The king has done nothing
But rules with the hand made from iron
To eliminate him,let's summon

His entire royal blood line
And eliminate all of them with him,
Tie them to the shrine

Call upon the great oracle
To come down and perform a miracle
Maybe send down fire rains

To consume the special feast
Which is in the form of royals
Or maybe unleash a beast

To appear from no where
To come and feast the royal feast
As I watch pathetic king

Aklika the iron ruler die
The fire consumer being consumed by fire
Sinking, and gasping for breath

As we watch in delight
What a joy this day will bring
To the village and beyond

All they wish for is
The death of the cruel king Aklika
As they watch him suffer

They just can't wait for
The very day the peace maker himself
Will finally rest in peace

The day the man who
Never knew peace in his life time
Will finally rest in one

His body lying in pieces
Miserably with his entire family peacefully rotten
With scavengers doing the postmortem

That is the only cry
Of his very own once beloved people
Who now wish his death

The death of the king
Who made earth hell for his people
And died in cold blood

On his own crowned throne
By the very people who crowned him
The king of peace

And the king of peace
Laid in pieces with his whole family
End of the tragic story

Hymns Of Praise

Once upon a hallucination
I met her not in my dreams
But I held her in my arms
Her breath was so cool
Like the harmattan wind
Her voice was like a host of angels
Singing hymns of praise

I listened as she sang in chorus
To my uninterrupted attention
She calmed the winds with
Her walks as her majestic feet
Touched the soils of mother earth
Her eyes were burning like the sun
As I stared through them I froze
She burned me with her
Cold,tender and loving arms
I never wanted this to end
I wanted it to last for eternity
But I guess I was never right from wrong

I wish I could go back in time and
Turn back the hands of time
So that she could be mine forever
I wish we could walk in the clouds
Play hide and seek in the moon
For the world to see the
Reflection of our love in
The moon light at night
I wish we could take a cold shower
Together inside the sun
So the the world will jealous
The warmness of our hearts

I know we are meant to be
Meant to be in a different world
Which is yet to come
Our love story is archaic
Old like the Egyptian pyramids
Until yesterday comes back
I will never see you again
For all I saw only happened
In a once upon a dream

Tears Of A Poet

I hide behind the dark nights
The dark clouds under my eyes
I hide the pain when I say
Your name but the pain in me
Is still the same, my rocky heart
Pours down heavily any time I sit
Under my roof in secrecy
I hide my emotions behind that smile
Sitting alone, I think less
I think about you, I think about the world
I think about us
Sitting on the walls of my heart,
My emotions flow like a cascading water fall
Pouring from my eyes like a rolling stone,
Flowing like a raging fire.

With mixed feelings I shed tears
No body can understand
The reason behind the tears of the poet
No body understands our emotions except us
We cry because we are happy
We laugh because we are sad
This is not a poem
It is a lamentation of a poet
This poem has no poet
This poem was not written
This poem was cried out
Penned down by billions of flowing inks
Blue inks and gay inks
This poem shall linger in our hearts
It shall be forgotten not

This poem calls for change
Turning back the hands of time
Erasing the prints in the sands of time
To right our wrongs
We write the wrongs
In history and forget about the rights
We have rights,yet lawlessness is what we enjoy
We cry in pain
Yet our tears flow in vain
The cries of the writer pours like rain
At every every single stare of the world

Our tears pour for the world
Through our inks we cry for the world
We shed our blood
Through the living words flowing through us
Passing through our veins
And coming out as colourful inks
We cry for our selves
We cry for the world
The words of a poet
Are the voices of the world
The tears of the Poet
Is the cries of the world
The world is dumb, it can speak
Yet it can not be heard
Who is a poet?, you may ask

A poet is not a painter
But a writer who paints
The world with colourful words
And this is not a poem
But the tears of the poet
Always remember that these are not writings but
they are tears
Do not read nor recite them, mourn them
Share the joy of the poet
Mourn his pain and celebrate his joy

AFRICA

Tears flow from my eyes
Running down my cheeks like a waterfall
Pouring down the soils of my home land like rain
My eyes are filled with dust,I am can see clearly
My heart is sinking in sorrow
As I watch my beloved Israel turn Sodom
And there is a thing I could do, I am not helpless
Africa is my home, I have no home
How can I call a house a home
When the sun scorches under my own roof
I blame my people not,they are at fault
Yes they are,after all they have done?
We still live up to them
We embrace Western culture and despises ours
Well, they have a point,we are clueless about
what we have

Africa is not united, we are one
How can we stand up for ourselves
If we do not stand up for our brothers
How can we fight our foes,if we fight ourselves
How can we defend what's ours?
If we value most what's not ours
How can we protect what we have
If we keep fighting for what we do not have
Africa is a land of gold
A land where gold sweeps along the coasts
Yet we live from hand to mouth
Why do we have to beg for what is ours
After taking away all our wealth
They still want to turn our land to hell
Upon tricking us and depriving us of our
properties
They want to drag us to sin
If hell is such a nice place,
Why don't you enjoy the comfort alone
But rather you try to drag Gods people along with
you to Sodom and Gomorrah
Where a man can be free to marry a fellow man
A woman is free to marry a fellow woman
Why? How can we encourage homosexuality and
lesbianism?
Such an abomination to nature

Oh Africa! Precious Africa
With all these blatant lies
All these years of severe slavery and servitude
Which came along with hardship,torture and pain
All these years of our children living
Under the roof of the open, exposing their ribs to
the scorching sun
All this misconceptions about black's
All these discriminations,calling us animals
Yet we still value western culture
Every thing from the Western world is the best
Oh why Africa? Where is our courage?
Where is our pride?, we have nothing
Yet through us they got all the precocious
stones
Took away our women and branded our customs
barbaric
Upon all the blood shed?
As if that was not enough, Africans
My people,Why have you turned away from God?
Man taking his fellow man to bed
Women taking their fellow women to the isle
Which is more barbaric my people
Africa,a land of gold filled with milk and honey
Yet we lack,we are wealthy

My people not all glitters is gold
Is this the land Yaa Asantewaa stood up for?
Are these the sons and daughters of Ghadaffi?
The descendants of Nelson Mandella,
Osagyifo Dr Kwame Nkrumah
Mugabe,Mbeki,J.J.Rawlings
Kofi Annan,Okomfo Anokye
Born with the fusion of great leadership,
Bravery,wisdom and the spirit of change
Where are these your sons Oh Mother Africa
Your sons have turned against each other
Breaking your heart,breaking Gods heart
Oh why? Africa! Mama Africa
God in his own wisdom created a woman for
man
Who are you to change that?
Are you superior to God?
God have mercy on your poor souls
This sin of an abomination
Has existed centuries ago even before your
arrivalarrival

You came to tarnish our culture and branded
Africans as inhuman
So why then do you want us to legalise such an
abominable sin
And an inhuman act, May God forgive us all

The Sacrilege

Our crushing lips
Left behind
Broken hearts,
Opened scars,
Deep wounds,
Pain
Tears like rain
War in heaven
Fought on earth
Leaving no demons
In hell
They are here with us

We fell in love
And hated each other
No love found
In our beautiful romance
A Bad romance it was
A tragedy of a love story
Come-tragedy
A madrigal
Together we wrote
An elegy
The world sang

Epitaphs
Engraved
On tombs
Roses,
Scattered
On graves
War of love
That brought
Disaster
We fought for
Love
And gained hatredhatred

Abominable love
Day loving night
Darkness
Embracing
Light
Death
Kissed
Life
An irony of fate
Destiny
Cheats on nature

The world trembled
The earth opened
Its jaws and swallowed
Everything in it
The seas rose
Like mountains
The moment our lips hugged
Every thing became
Vise versa
Things went back
To their right place
Heavens was filled
With dust
And earth with clouds

She was an agent
Of the dark
An angel of Hades
And I was for the light
Our love was a clash
Of light and darkness
No body won
But the world will
Have to suffer
The consequences
This is just the beginning
Of the love story
That will change
The world