Poetic Lifestyle

Sad

2012-01-11T20:44:00.001-08:00

This is to all the sadness
The world's madness
Hold on, don't let go
In the end real colors show
Media hides the foe
I know
I'm praying for you tonight
This is to all who lost thier mothers
Sisters who lost thier brothers
To everybody losing one another
I'm praying for you tonight
This is to all those who got it hard
Orphans, the homeless and the needy
Living life as a living hell
Coming down with all the rest that fell
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen
The Whole Arab World
I'm praying for you tonight
All those going through the struggle
Everyday got to make a hustle
I'm praying for you tonight
To get an inch, you gotta walk a mile
All you want is a penny or a smile
Hoping for it to be a better in a while
Hanging on there like a lily on the Nile
I'm praying for you tonight
Looking at all those who live on the street
Making it each day with nothing to eat
I swear, tears fall down from my cheek
I Feel like falling right down to my knees
I'm praying for you tonight
That this phase will speedily fade away!

Faded light

2011-11-20T10:43:00.001-08:00

Faded light
As the day emerges and seems trough,
I grow ever wary of what I do.
I start to contemplate of things that I said,
So tormenting, they unfold from my head.

I bring to mind the time when we had no beat,
Hanging on, not giving in to defeat.
No matter what surfaced on our way,
As long as we were together we would be ok.

But then the atmosphere gave way for our nightmare,
The last flash of joy and the creation of despair.
For our chain to be shattered so easily by a mere fight,
Is what makes me regret why I thought we were alright.

Now we wither away alone and full of remorse,
Our hearts lost and blinded all thanks to divorce.

The widow

2011-11-20T10:40:00.001-08:00

Over time things change, but never the heart,
can't seem to move on, still torn apart.

Offers to marry, someone to take care of the two,
I'll never be a good wife, to none other than you.

I still cry at night, when the babies lay rest,

Heard your face was bright, filled with light
I wish I could've seen you
on that crazy night.
To see for myself, what I pray is true,
a beautiful man seeing his life anew.

She asks for you, out of the blue
What can I say? but that we will see him soon,
"daddy's taking too long"
I tell her look at the moon.

God made that, and you and me,
he took daddy, just let things be.
One day soon we will see,
another time, another place,
and then we'll be free.

Don't be sad loving, Daddy's here
I point to her heart
and tell her don't fear.

We are all still in pain
I just sit starring at the rain.

What do I say and what do I do,
I keep trying to figure out things
but I'm always blue.

Grateful to God, that He is in our lives,
without Him I know I would never be able to survive.

Pain and tears,
but hope for Bliss
even still,
its you I miss.

On this lonely path

2011-09-05T07:30:00.001-07:00

On a lonely path I found me
Alone I needed a companion
Looked out,none was gotten
Busy people too big to be friendly
Little dirty girl with no care
Who could have wished to be closer
When the forest is quite and still
I am already lurking somewhere to tilt
All the farming seasons I knew and endowed with customers
who will use me till the end of the season
My life was by myself
I needed a friend
The search began,the thinking grew
Not until my pen beckoned at me
It encouraged me to get a paper
The writing started,my ink kept flowing
The diary of a lonely girl
Day after day I fill in my stories
On those pages,I put my worries
On this lonely paths....
Growing took me forever
Especially when there was no lover
Alone,I grew smarter
My life was a broken glass
Many fragments to pick
Here and there with life's trick
As I grow in knowledge
I realised I already hav an edge
With what I call a diary
I am a poet to be celebrated soonest
All on this lonely path!

Law of Karma

2011-09-05T07:26:00.001-07:00

Sore throat from trying to hold back the tears.
shaking hands that rest on her heart.
Sitting on the same chair for years.
Her loved ones so very far apart.

The clock is ticking and the weather is unfriendly.
The sun she once played in was grey and gone.
She never thought that it hurt like this to be old.
She never knew if she'd make it till dawn.

Her five children that she lovingly rared.
Where nowhere at all to be seen.
This feeling she had that none of them cared.
She was at the lowest point she'd ever been.

She wept alone in the house her children had paid for.
She witnessed the cruel thanks for all her hard work.
She ate food of a prisoner and would collapse on the floor.
Her only company in the corner,was where her shadow would lurk.

The day came when she felt an awareness.
The darkness lifted from her mind.
She was overwhelmed and almost careless.
And to sorrow she was blind.

Her soul had left her body and she felt more alive than the living.
Her hurt and pain were at an end and she was more than relieved.
She was done with all the cruelty of age and the grief that she was given.
All the injustice and neglect she most certainly received.

Now sleep and rest with God knowing all your hurt.
Smile and know that from all your pain you gained peaceful wait.
Your children weep as they see your body buried in the dirt.
But where were they when you cried out through that house wit big black gate?

But woe to them who forget their elders, and fathers and mothers.
Woe to them who ignore their every whim.
We must value them as precious jewels, like them there are no others.
Seek their prayers and pray for them for this life is much too dim.

And when you grow old and wither all your petals, be very sure to know.
That life is not complete till what goes around comes around.
And when the kids get tall and their bright eyes glow.
They too will leave you in a room,
then weep when you meet the ground.

BEFORE THE ALTAR

2011-01-27T03:54:00.001-08:00

If you will take my words
then give me no wars
If you will save me from pieces
then what you should leave with me peace is
If you will fill this emptiness
then be sure you will never give me sadness
If you tell me never again to try
then vow u will never make me cry
Now you can still my heart break
wait not until i am unable to hold my brake
listen to this tiny voice now
atleast before you make any vow
Altar is so near but let us ourselves search
before we call the world to watch
let us open our eyes wide without a wink
And see how much we can without a blink
Only fools will still say LOVE is blind
Let us arrange inside ourselves before we bind
Of what use is a union that put us in pains?
when normally we are to live in gains
Pls let me know if what you feel is right or not
Before we finally and forever tie the knot!

THANK YOU

2011-01-27T03:50:00.000-08:00

In a dark night,
I felt alone and hurt.
I put up a front of perfection
But was torn and scared inside.
Didn't want anyone to know what was happening.
I didn't want to be judged
Without them knowing the whole story.
Then you came into my life

In the very midst of this bitter strife.
You were there...and won a little trust,
But it wasn't over yet...
I tested you without your knowing
That everything depended on if you passed.
You stood the test and now I know.
You shone a light and brought the sun...Into my darkness;
my fears are gone.

Your care and friendship have erased all doubt.
I know you're there and won't leave me now.
I don't need to be afraid.
There's someone here who cares,
Who will just hold me and help me face my fears.
My dreams are once again;
My hopes live inside of me.
My broken wings are mended

All because of you;
I can fly again.

I LOVE YOU

2011-01-27T03:46:00.000-08:00

I am drawn to you like
The stars to the midnight skies
The Earth to the burning sun
Water to thirsting flowers

I am comfortable with you like
An old pair of boots
A faded pair of jeans
My favorite Ankara and gele
I am at peace with you like
Taking a walk in silence in the country
Listening to rain drops fall in the dark of night

I am alive with you like
The laughter that is uncontrollable
The heart that goes thump, thump, thump
Running through wildflowers in the wilderness

Every ounce of my being
Mind, body and soul are riveted by you
I am alive with you, free with you, comfortable with you

I love you

AFRICAN WOMAN

2009-10-12T08:44:00.000-07:00

The dwindling of the trees
The coolness of the breeze
The drizzling of the rain
The leaves flying around freely
Stream flowing endlessly
Children running happily down the street
Supper came in a big round calabash
The children sitting round the evening “Atupa”
To hear stories that plant in them morals.

Inside the next room there is a woman
Holding her child so close
Singing a lullaby to put her to sleep
So much beauty in a woman’s strength
The versatility of an African Woman
The creativity, it’s an uncomparable reality
She rises up above all the problems
Nothing is ever intimidating

African woman is blessed
She is inspired above all the odds
She is hopeful beyond a doubt
Always proud of her identity
You can argue that money rules
But at what cost?
How much is an African woman worth?

Fathers worked hard to feed the children
But thanks to mama
Who taught them the morals to excel
Oh my African woman
Looking radiant as if she never cries
Oh my dear creator
Let us realize everyday
The hope and strength she represents

Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s celebrate
The African woman
The one who makes everything look simple
She can see the future
Through the eyes of an eagle
The one ready to be the best
By any means possible
Lets stand for the power of
An African Woman

Should I?

2009-10-12T08:42:00.000-07:00

When I remember that someday I will leave
This wishy washy cunning difficult life
I wonder if I should laugh or cry
Or should just do all I can to leave marks
To engrave my names on a rock
To leave behind works that would speak words

It’s a wide, wild, weird, woeful earth
Yes, I will be gone with no regrets
Cos’ I have walked on sands and left footprints
I have cried in the dust and left tear drops
I have tilled the ground and left plenty grains

Amidst deceit and heart breaks
I have gotten married and had children
Amidst rebellions, my children are role models
They have been proven by test and time
While my body rotten away in the soil
My name will remain on the lips
While my soul returns to the giver
My works remain as a proof of life gone

Where I could not speak, my works reach
The story will keep spreading that
There once lived a man whose life was worthy
Whose words has healed
Whose pen has written
Whose life was a sample
With knowledge of this certain fact
Should I still mourn this day yet to come

DUST

2009-10-12T08:36:00.000-07:00

For a many nights I have been sleeping
And I know I may sleep to wake no more someday
These nights I dream,
When you see my dreams come true rejoice with me
Cos it’s a privilege
During the day when I stumble,
Don’t mock me
Sometimes the earth shakes and the mighty men fall
When I store up emotions and tears drop from my eyes
Still don’t mystify it, even the sky cries out rain
Knowing that rain blesses people’s grains
Every tear I cry will produce me joy and laughter
Every night in my life shall be followed by a new dawn
Surely my mourning will cease in the morning
My prayer will always end up with an answer
Even when my mouth seizes, my mouth speaks
My pen writes, my soul rises
Thus when I die, don’t mourn me
But mother the motherless and homeless
Just bury the body in the soil
Let the plants draw nutrients needed
Don’t build mansions over the dust and empty body
Rather shelter the living homeless and abandoned
Don’t feed the rich and mighty for my sake
Rather invite the poor and the hungry
This body too once lived on the streets
But picked, fed, cleaned and helped by an unseen hero
My spirit and soul disguised in this body
But I know so well that my body is dust
I’ll rather feed my spirit and soul
My body shall return to itself, ordinary dust!
Body is vanity as life

NEVER A MOTHERLESS !

2009-10-12T08:29:00.000-07:00

I have seen different sizes and shapes of women
Sometimes, the tall, short, slim and fat
Each with their unmistaken body smell
Some so beautiful beyond description
Yet ugly ones still on the street with no shame
Then I look at myself and ask, how do I look?
Surely I have no relation with these ones
Unfortunately I was born in those black days
When faces die with no history to behold

Her face has gone with her, nothing to behold
Now I see theirs, mine is unknown
Family describe hers to me, still can’t be sure
I have tried to place a look for her in me
It keeps getting hard, couldn’t help myself,
I feel like a lost child
Looking for her mother she couldn’t identify
Every faces seeming like her lost mother

But one thing I was told and believed
I was conceived and born of a woman
Who at a point of giving me life lost hers
Who couldn’t lose me but preferred to lose herself
The woman who couldn’t watch me grow
But put God to watch over me
Who couldn’t give me anything
But left me with God who gave me everything
Then I decided to stop looking at faces
Since I am with God who has always taken me places
And I will never believe that I am a motherless!

MY AKANNI

2009-07-18T02:23:00.000-07:00

My only love Akanni,
Forever I remain your cherished Adunni
This love have survived
From the moment it emerged
How passionately I missed the mango tree
Life was as if we could never be free
Just a whistle from the stream
It was a transformation of my dream
Never knew a perfect gentleman
Neither did I know the honor meant for a woman
Nor the beauty that speaks without a word
Not until I met the prince charming
The total end to my day-dreaming
How I am out of the fantasy land
This love knows no bound
Black is beautifully outstanding
Long time ago I stopped doubting
The butterflies in my heart still growing
For you every time I’m glowing
Love has favoured me through my Akanni
Success has crept into my life, thanks to my Akanni
Every moment I live is Akanni and Adunni
What love tastes like is Akanni
Duduyemi omokunrin to dara bi Egbin my Akanni
The only destined husband of Adunni
With everything that I am,
I lay it all down, just for you to be
The only Olowo ori mi Akanni
Yours truly & faithfully

Coming Soon

2009-07-18T02:20:00.000-07:00

Somewhere someday I will be a wife
To a man of long time dream and hope
Made and sent in here just for me
At last the identity will be revealed
The thinking and imagination shall quit
No matter how long I shall not be misled
My husband is only for me not any
Morning is almost here, end to the stormy night
In a cozy and fresh morning, he shall come
I have the strong inspiration
Never will I feel any desperation
With my God I have a strong communication
Safely my crown I will wear someday
Right now I shall pray for him everyday
Someday my Akanji shall come
With no tears nor difficulties
When it’s only a fulfillment to a destiny
Konge Konge I will meet him soon
Gbejege Gbejege I will be the happiest

My Africa

2009-07-18T02:18:00.000-07:00

Go into the world and give them a good impression
Clean away the marks of rejection
Stop giving yourselves a bad image over vanity possession
Be renewed and show the world the determination
Represent a new Africa with a new generation
After all we have got outstanding values and tradition
We are the blessed offsprings filled with unbroken ambition
Full of unfailing inspiration
Now we use words and not wars for communication
After all we have dreams that can’t face interrogation
All we seek for Africa is promotion
To every children seek we education
To kill in our youths fraudulent passion
And stop giving the world tension
My dear Africa, pray for God’s compassion
Together we can kill the spirit of desperation
If we can dare to apply just a caution
My dear Africa, stop the deception
It will only bring us confusion
If the world forgets us and gives no attention
This time shall come except we do our correction
Africa, tame yourself and stop the shameful gyration
Never too late, we can start the preparation
It’s never impossible, not a hopeless condition
My dear Africa, let’s work towards the actualization
If these can become a realization
Then my Africa will come together in jubilation
The world will join in the celebration
Then Africa will have no complication
And the world will watch us in admiration.

Poetry Someday

2009-07-18T02:15:00.000-07:00

My given talent someday will put food on my table
The works of my hand will become so profitable
Someday it will become so commendable
Even though they call me unreasonable
Very soon my work shall become so dependable
I am not bothered if they find it unbelievable
God has given me the grace to be capable
Someday it will become so fashionable
Poetry will become so palatable
Its force in the universe will be so formidable
For every event, it will be suitable
Then, people will know that poetry is no fable
Although this may not yet be understandable
But someday, this will be generally acceptable
Then you will agree that nothing is impossible
Poets will become so inevitable
Our dreams and hopes will never be breakable
I will become a hero unstoppable
I will heal the world and become undeniable
The world will grow and become charitable
Every book that has strong words will be readable
Then my death to the universe will forever be memorable

YEEPA!!!

2009-07-18T02:13:00.000-07:00

So empty is the room, a love is lost
Who cares what I feel? Everything is dust
Tears are sweet, today I have the taste
Today I wish love had a cost
Sometimes not long, the man was here first
He is a thief and stole all so fast
I ignored everyone that called him not the best
I remembered how we walked down the street
Whispering words and passionately holding my wrist
Who could have thought, all was just lust
Am I his first victim or last?
Broken hearted, hard to believe I have joined the list
It was a relationship mama passionately detest
But wouldn’t listen until the bomb finally blast
Though a lesson is learnt at least
To listen to parents before anything first
If only you seek nothing but the best
As a teenager who needs knowledge and skill to be vast
Seeking love from men can still wait at least
Hope young ones like me will read it and digestThat obedience is nothing but the best!

I CHOOSE

2009-07-18T02:03:00.001-07:00

Every day is fresh and clean
Every moment is a feeling of hope in the next
Every hope is a quest for its reality
Every opportunity could be grabbed and used
Life could be sweet or sour
But today, I choose the good against the bad
I choose success against failure
I choose ocean against stream
I choose the sky against the ground
I choose hard work with reward
I choose joy in place of tears
I choose the best in place of average
I choose the almighty God in place of idols
I choose wisdom in place of foolishness
I choose life and fulfillment in place of death
I am given the chance to choose
Today and forever
I choose excellence in all my ways

LOVE

2009-06-14T15:50:00.000-07:00

It took me miles to reach you
Many years for me to meet you
I shed tears to have love
I felt pains to get close
This is a dream of ages
The story is on pages
Love so real so scarce
It’s never found in an easy source
Finding love is a destiny
It’s far above any learning
Where love is absent
Loneliness is present
Failure is possible
Depression is inevitable
But, today I touch my own love
I am face to face with my destiny
The joy I feel I can’t deny
Even in my pocket no penny
Although, it might sound funny
But a destiny is fulfilled

SHAME

2009-05-15T07:05:00.000-07:00

Hope is locked up in the closet
Breakthrough is pocketed deep inside some pockets
Development is sat upon by some strange humans
With sword innocent eyes are being plucked
Stream no longer flow water but blood
Young seeds no longer serve its planters
But plucked by thieves to glorify their shame
Here we see wealth but can’t behold
We awaits hope not forthcoming

Here we seek justice from the lawless
Here we are at the mercy of the heartless
Trusted methods have failed in the hands of the distrusted
Now we live in the mockery of our lives
Our offspring have gone to serve in a strange land
With a full grown hope in inhuman jobs
Hope in the money given to deduct only feeding
To immediately return back the rest in the name of utility bills
Hope in the place where they are in total denial of love
Total hope is in the self slavery that bring meal

If blood flowing were sacrificial
It’s enough to take away our reproach rather than adding
Even though nature have given us everything richly
But greediness of our hearts have defeated the gift
Our shallow minds have led us astray
We have spilled blood on nature
Invited disaster to the land supposed to be peaceful

Now confusion lives everywhere with us
Even the wicked have done so much evil
That their lists are blank and totally in misery
This is a reality that brings down tears
Heavy slap on the face of an hopeless giant
Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! I feel

REMEMBER

2009-05-15T07:04:00.000-07:00

Yesterday’s wars and struggles gone
The dropped down tears have dried up
The downtrodden is now raised up
Think about the tearfully planted seeds
That have brought these fat proceeds
Have you forgotten the co-runners of yesterday?
Who never completed the race to see today?
Remember the strongholds before now
What about the sleepless long nights?
The wet days under Eko Bridge?
Think about the lonely path toured
So soon forgotten how the story goes
Remember the hell before the help
The thirst, hunger, homelessness
Don’t forget your transition between then and now
Someone somewhere is wearing your formal shoe
Extend a help for a difference!

THE PROUD

2009-05-15T07:02:00.000-07:00

Head high like a gigantic storey building
All others are ordinary ground
Walking down the hood
Singing himself songs of praise and adoration
He is the only custodian of wealth
His wisdom surpasses others
In his eyes he remains the best

Who dares question his authority?
All heads must bow to his majesty
His words to others are destructive weapons
To him, destinies mean nothing
His heart fully hardened
Only his life means something
His life, the pride, his doom

In spite of his incomparable wisdom
Full of crisis is his household
Wealth is his wall of security
Evil people are indeed proud and arrogant
Gathered wealth through evil means
Fattest offering for shutting up reward
If only he can accept he’s foolish

But at last,
Who is always in trouble?
Who argues and fight?
Who has cuts and bruises?
Whose eyes are red?

Wisdom brings strength not weakness
With, battles are won diligently
But a life void of wisdom of God
Purely nothing but a shattered life
If only we can plead for wisdom
Put away our destructive pride
Remembering wealth and honor forever never

DAYS OF MY LIFE

2009-05-15T06:40:00.000-07:00

DAYS OF MY LIFE

Days of my life seems endless but countable
These days I have, only God is my witness
The days of my life only God I trust
The days of my life only God I know
Of the things I do in my days
To the knowledge of God almighty alone
God, the only consolation in times of sorrow
The sweetness that outlast my bitterness
The days of my life, all my hope is in God

HE is my life long inspiration
His voice so loud that storms obey
His arms so long that I am never sunk
The days of life, purely the grace of God
Sometimes my sinful life has brought shame
Hindering me from walking tall amidst peers
For these days, God forgave me to walk tall again
The days of my life I realize I need only God
So much more than He ever needed me
So much loneliness, only God makes the difference

Unspeakable moments that only God understands
My life, my faith, my hope, my GOD
The living words in my life
My God, the comforting truth
The voice that silenced the storms
The hope of the just
The refuge of the forsaken
Everything, the origin of
The salvation awaiting sinners
For all the days of my life
How can I ever forget you?

WHITE PAP

2009-04-15T14:35:00.001-07:00

White pap from the black clayed pot
Mouth wide opened to what seems impossible
The shame has brought forth the glory
The glory unable to forget the shame
The heavy stain on the face of a King
The unspeakable story of a gem
Yet the King must stand tall
And look the world in the eyes
Yet the King emerged
From the very black and forsaken pot
Back then, a promise has been broken
A lie has been said
A step has been mistaken
Some words has been misused
All of these, the black clayed pot did
Yet it brought forth the white pap
Eko fifun from ikoko dudu
I am the unstoppable force of my time
Unregretable offspring of the land
I am the proud son of Africa
With boundless talents to face the world
Unbroken will to walk in the moon
I have no shame to introduce my identity
I am a black man with good manners
Black skin and hair color
Strong and healthy physique
Good day ladies and gentle men
I am from Africa, precisely Nigeria
The land of peace and abundance

ONLY YOU ....

2009-03-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

I have seen real love in you
I have visited the moon with you
I have toured the universe through you
And I am yet to see a greater miracle
I have seen us in a perfect dream
Only you bring me up when I am down
When you touch my lips you touch me right
I feel pains disappear
You make me weak and wild

I have kissed the moon in a million times
There is no limit in the sky
You did things love never did
Even though life is no fun so many times
But in you I have found a worthy life
Now I am crazy for you
But still I haven’t seen anything
That makes me cry like you do
Life is a bed of roses with you
And in roses thorns live too
You remain my number one baby!

TODAY .......

2009-03-18T12:52:00.001-07:00

TODAY…

Today I was born
Today was the beginning
Today that virtuous woman sighted me
Today that woman cried to have me here
Today she bared it all for me
Today I came from the world above
To bear witness to the greatness of my creator
Today I was welcome
Today they all felt the need to touch me
Today I was innocent
Today I was guiltless
Today, I am grown
With a lot of desires
And I keep on the trials
I search for the inspiration
Just to keep alive my ambition
Today, a day to reflect
Over the things I expect
Strongly, God I respect
I have a life impossible to oppose
Because my life is for a purpose
Even though I stumble
Never will I fumble
I refuse to settle for less
Mountain High River deep regardless
All thanks to God today and forever
Today has always been a blessing
Why will I not sing?
My journey started today
I was born today!

Black morning

2009-03-07T02:29:00.000-08:00

How can he leave me speechless?
Why did he leave me helpless?
Now he’s gone under the ground
He’s put my joy on a hold
Until i am again bold
All of these untold
My heart bleeds for a lost love
The sun now after him
The moon now he can’t see
Now cock crows he hears not
He’s gone to return no more
As short as life is
Never knew so his
What I feel now is fears
In my eyes drop bitter tears
We have seen seasons together
What happened to all we planted?
The fruits he couldn’t wait to gather
What about the dreams
The passion
The fire
The desire
The determination
The zeal
The hopes
What happened to them?
The future have vanished with today
This black gloomy morning
This morning
Brought me mourning
I cry for a friend
With a heart so heavy
Dear friend
You had a life
You had a laugh
But you had it not long
I will miss you
Tobiloba odeyemi

HE DIES

2009-03-01T14:33:00.000-08:00

Your pride and music ended here
In the world of the dead
Worms are your blanket
Maggots are your bed
Now you have eternally fallen
You have brought down lives
Now you are brought down yourself
Now you are deep in the land of the dead
Those who see you now will ask
So this man is not this more than?
This man who made the world trembles?
And shook up kingdoms?
This man who put innocent ones in prison?
And refuse to let them go alive?
You have murdered many
You delighted so much in evil
Now your family will be forgotten forever
And your sons will pay the crimes you committed
They won’t ever be called a leader
At last
The wicked man dies
Relief to many lives

I RISE

2009-03-01T14:29:00.000-08:00

The day was dawn on me
The sun came on me
The rain has fallen on me
Now the sun, slowly giving a way to the evening
Here I have been sitting
Eluded with gifts and talents so raw
My lips are dried away of my dreams
I sit here and speak to the sun and moon
Telling how lofty the dreams I have
The moon must have been tired listening to my stories
Of dreams never come true
The day keeps coming in and going away
My bones keep getting older and frail
Still unable to fulfill the mission
My passion lives here in my mouth
The vision gets blur each day
The older, the more, the prizes
Yet it’s only a life here
I can’t ask for more life
But I can ask for real grace
Now I rise
Now I go to ask the moon
Ask the stars, the sun
Even ask the birds
Because my place is up there
Up there where they live
I have been here for too long
Let me go ask and learn the way
I rise to go pay the prize
Now I quit the gaze
I want to run a race

MAN

2009-02-24T03:45:00.000-08:00

I shall labor to earn a living
I shall tilt the ground alone
Yet I shall eat the yam the least
I shall run the race to win
But the glory I shall bring home to give
If I am to bear a MAN
For years back I have been planting
Back home they wait confidently for the harvest
You will reap whatever you sow
I have been hearing that since when I was a child
But what happens to it after reaping?
They will always come eating
If I am to be called a MAN
I have to love and tolerate a woman
My heart has to be big enough
Peace loving
If I am to be called a husband
In the still of the night
Regardless the laboring of the day
The work goes on
If someday I am to be called a father
But that is not even enough
I have to work harder still
If I am to be called a SON, MAN, HUSBAND AND FATHER
In this world of hustling
I can’t help to stop struggling
If I want to keep leading
I realize success is not an option
It becomes priority for the man with mission
A MAN is responsible for things
But when he seize to be responsible
He’s sold out all his primary missions of life
He becomes a man that can’t man
Do you think you are a MAN?
Are you aspiring to be a MAN?
Then, work out to shine out the man in you
I have found in me the MAN.

OLUWADAMILARE

2009-02-17T22:47:00.000-08:00

I was lost in a world of lust
Tracing back steps became so hard
End seems right here in the beginning
Whom do I call for a rescue?
How do I speak out to my helper?
My voice as good as that of a dumb
But suddenly something happened
Just on my to a suicide mission
Something so awesome to neither estimate nor evaluate

This thing left my mouth opened
It left my body shivering
OLUWADAMILARE
I was rejected and condemned but ……
OLUWADAMILARE
I was gentle and kind but
They were wicked and mean
I was straight and truthful but
They were cunning and deceptive
But look at me now..
OLUWADAMILARE

I have been abused and harassed but now
OLUWADAMILARE
I have said things, done things unacceptable but now
OLUWADAMILARE
This is me that have bitterly wept but now
OLUWADAMILARE
I have made mistakes
I have been refused love and forgiveness severally but now
OLUWADAMILARE
My life has been a mixture but at last
OLUWADAMILARE

Now I am a full grown woman
Very confident and hardworking
A young girl whose life seems wrong back then
Whose hope seems frail
Whose future seems broken and empty
Here I am above all the complications
Above all my foolishness and difficulties
OLUWADAMILARE
It’s not about my wisdom
What I get is a pure divine favor
Mercy, love, and divine intervention
It’s far beyond my comprehension
OLUWADAMILARE
(GOD VINDICATED ME)

Valentine loneliness

2009-02-07T14:30:00.004-08:00

Across the table he sits alone
Gulping his wine as if running a race
Staring into the very empty space
Leaving people to ponder what
Is coming from the space
With a feeling of jittery and dissatisfaction
Love have dumped him in the cold
No one to love and hold
Very pathetic the story she told
She’s gone with a man that can spend
Oh, its true big girls don’t send
Only bills they care to offset
They run when there is nothing to get
So sorry, but you couldn’t meet the target
She has to go get the better
Valentine comes only once in a year
She couldn’t afford to spend the day with a yell
She will be back when your seeds yield
But too fragile to help you tilt the field
Don’t let this kill your spirit
when money come, love will be right
valentine will be sweet and tight
she will be steady and ready
when the soup becomes sweety and meaty
she will be loving and caring
unable to live without your cuddling
but today you are alone in this your thinking

SWEET VENGEANCE

2009-02-06T23:44:00.000-08:00

Today, you will go tell your peers
That never will you pierce
Today, I am ease of my own pain
So happy, I have given you the gain
Tell them your evil deal
I have brought you the evil meal
I know you always feel brave
But never in this grave
The deceptive kisses you gave
Couldn’t even save
Nor help your freely oozing out blood
Even this knife feel fulfilled
For the privilege to suck your wicked blood
Nothing can be more fulfilling
Than seeing this gory end
Right in the palms of my hand
Nothing as sweet as this sweet vengeance
I am sorry you couldn’t live to witness
The entire story told the world about your mess
But I hope you tell the unborn
That you meet on your way home
That it gets bloody, so bloody
When you toy with a blackened heart

I WON'T SHUT THE DOOR !

2009-01-31T11:33:00.000-08:00

how can i say goodbye to you?
where will this courage comes from?
when you were all i could see
when the turbulent seems endless
when the pains promised death
when the joy was stolen
when my neighbour wouldn't care
were you not the one that came?
that was all yesterday
today's come with changes
trying to push her away from the surface
strangling me to say bye
if i dare say goodbye
how do i pay back her deeds?
her words have pushed me this far
her tears have changed my evil ways
her prayers have healed my wounds
let the world greatest stand
let that man of wisdom speak
oh ! let him teach me how to talk it
how to stand tall and look her in the eyes
without a blink in my eyes
without a conscience in my heart
and without any descretion inside of me
tell this woman it's over !
time has come to make use of it
she says "endurance is needed to succeed"
yes,the time has come to do it
i won't say goodbye
so that i won't say bye to good
here we will stand the storms
run and win the race
i fail to shut the door
i won't say goodbye

Poetry for them,truths for me

2009-01-31T04:34:00.000-08:00

imagine my own life,just a story to many

many truths about my life

melody songs to listeners

this is my life,a song on many lips

see them dancing to my story

oh! they call it a song

these people call it ordinary work of art?

this is my entire world on paper

but what they see is just poetry

laying critics from their own worlds

afterwards it is only a written piece

but this is who i am,you are and they are

in this written piece we are all found

this is a world of you and I

making sense to different of us

all in our own very different way

anyway it is our own world of difference

MY INTERNET FRIEND !

2009-01-22T14:39:00.002-08:00

His smiles from the miles
The feeling so near
The friendship so real
Eyes unable to see each other
Yet my joy his joy
In my fears he assures
In my success he rejoices
In my pains he cares

His advice so meaningful
Filling in deep emptiness
His words heal faster
Unseen and well known fellow
Technology have made us known
Minds similarities the major bond
Intelligence our common factors
Prosperity the goal we pursue

Together flock birds of the same feathers
I have found a companion in you
My unseen internet friendship
You are among the genius we await
Our generation needs you and I

WHAT A LIFE !

2009-01-12T04:04:00.000-08:00

It is a life seems loaded
With many things gliterring like forever
Deceit becomes the carpet of the room
With its length seems endless
And the thinker becomes eluded with
What is life all about afterall?

With the players playing the game of
Uncertain ending and reward
Never bother to know where
The life comes from and goes
Even with different faces that
looks like so unknown
What a life of unanswered questions

unspeakable fear of the minute next
Each one keeping secrets of the unknown
Smiling out a sorrow so deep
Pretending all is well with
Everything wrong and frightening
feeling lonely amidst thousands of human
living poorly amidst of diamonds
it is indeed a life of ours !

yet,the right hand,the criminal u curse
but because you have to keep your
two hands together it remains your
friend unable to live without
is that not a life enough?

It seems options full for all
Yet it’s so empty with hands
Held tight and mouth sealed
Mysteries so strange and heavy
What a life live we ! ! !

Secret Admirer ......

2009-01-10T16:48:00.000-08:00

When I face the front
He steals a look
When I laughed,
His soul smiles

When I am not happy
His mood changes
When he’s asked if he knows me
He said never saw me

He’s asked if he likes me
He said he’s unsure
He’s asked if he wants me
He said somehow

Secret admirer
I caught u a long time ago
Today is too late to deny

HE

2009-01-05T13:14:00.000-08:00

HE
He’s smiled and laughed
He’s sang and dance
He’s stumble and trembled
He’s been trusted and entrusted
He’s whispered and talked
He’s touched and kissed
He’s been given and taken
He’s been loved and cherished
He’s been respected and adored
He’s been wanted and needed
He’s been my friend and confidant
He’s been the centre of my attraction
He’s been my standing ovation
He’s come and gone

WHAT MORE CAN I ASK FOR?

2008-12-31T07:06:00.000-08:00

What more can I ask for?
this already built duplex with water non-stop
the faintly blue sky the roof over my head
my body mist never dry out for once
my hair lock more natural than the born dada
naturally endowed with slim bones
inside idumota market my mother works
under this ground my brother lives

inside these eyes lie frustration and uncertainties
father has been given a governmental burial
nights have passed with no meal to uncover this mouth
mama is so proud of her lifestyle
her look, the introduction of her entire life
imagine this life,what more can i ask for?

here nights are too short to dream a dream
here we celebrate the dead the living we mourn
here we don't talk,we shout
here we are never sick,we die
here we live in group and feel lonely
here we bear children we never fed
here what more can i ask for?

here we don't walk, we run, jump and fly
here we are sure of a thing......
government won't leave the rotten body
the body will lay somewhere ....
....somewhere when the soul is gone

when dreams become so hard to dream
..... hope too frail to lay hold of
...... love too weak to lean on
......life's too hard to bear
.... creator too busy to help
what more can i ask for?

this is the living we live here
the language we speak here
we are all insane here
everyone minding his madness
many words in my mouth
no ear to hear my words

everyone wearing their multi colour
suffering atires well fashioned out
many pregnant with his stories
but so sure of a befitting end
the great relief from a great pain
what more can i ask for?

THIS IA MY VILLAGE ...........

2008-12-27T06:01:00.000-08:00

This is my Village ......
Bush and bamboo built huts
With the rich mud made houses
Stream sharing territory with people
Naked children happily running down the street
Clayed pot on the head to fetch water

Students bare footed to their only village school
Coming back to help papa tilt the ground
Super came in a big round calabash
Each cutting their various sizes to swallow
These children sitting round the evening Atupa
Only to hear tortoise stories and traditional
Beliefs and values

Mama continiously teaching them a lifetime morals
Planting in them the tree that withers never
This is exactly my village
Very tattered village with uncivilized inhabitants

.........my village now king's court
The home of the mighty and dignitaries
Its offsprings representing in all fields and countries
Smooth drive through roads with street lights
Ultra modern mansions and infrastructures

The centre of attractions for citizens and foreigners
Well equiped schools confusing mama to choose
This is my beloved village now
Where i was conceived,born and raised
Where i was humbly born with a wooden spoon
With boundless talents and intelligence

This village has brought forth great men
Successful and morally standard fellows
Submissive wives and loving husbands
Very examplary leaders and obedient followers
Ilara-mokin, ondo state, Nigeria

As small as you are, you have it all proudly
This is my root, my village
Ilara-mokin is the name
The proud home of superstars

i love my husband

2008-12-25T15:36:00.000-08:00

The love that i know
the love that i see
the song that i hear
the one that i dance

the joy that i know
the peace that i have
The man that i know
the one that i love

the man that i need
the one that i have
this is my crown

this is my husband
this is my breath
i love my husband

Is your God this fair?

2008-12-23T22:35:00.000-08:00

Look at me here almost at the end
Of this very wide ocean called year
How did i make it to this point?
This is surely not my power nor might
It could have been only one man
Favouring me in all ways this year
Paving me ways inside this deep wide ocean
Provided me with floater
Rendered the aqua harmful beings powerless
How He had done it for me is unknown
And for someone like me?
Guiding me through my sailing period
You are my God forever i promise
Lesser gods have failed over me
Manmaid gods wouldn't have helped me
My gold and diamonds wouldn't have matter
In this ocean many have passed out the breath
Some in the beginning,some middle
And even at the very end
Here iam using this hand that have failed many
To write my story and appreciation of my God
Thanking Him for an accomplished mission
For a gift so priceless and inestimable
A visit to any hospital will convince you
And even checking out the morgue will further assist
To estimate and value this gift of life
The gari that you drink is as a result of the mouth that you have
Yet that mouth won't say thank you !
But wallowing in complaints and excuses
As for me i have determined to thank God
For so long ago even in my grave
Because this is the only God i have come to know
The God that was with me in my mother's womb
With me when i was born
With me amidst of storms and turmoil
With me in my pains and pleasure
With me in danger and safety
With me when friends rejected and accepted me
With me when i lack and have abundance
With me when i fall and rise
With me when i started this year and ended it
This is my God,always with me in every condition
This is the only man i ever needed
All other man i could do without !

SYMPTOMS OF A FAILURE

2008-12-16T14:12:00.000-08:00

SYMPTOMS OF A FAILURE

When he closes his eyes in sleep
He sees everything in clear images
He imagine great successes
He live a complete life
He has great ideas that can move toughest and highest mountains

He solves every problems
Waking up to face his stagnant life
Refusing to face it all for dreams to come alive
Living a life of fantasy and imagination
Wallowing in excuses and bitterness

Avoiding every risks of life
Forgetting that life itself is a big risk
These are symptoms of a failure
He simply live a life of no purpose

Yet he believes he has a dream
That someday will come real
And miserably waiting for an impossible change but
Only a step forward can set him free!! !

IF YOU MUST LOVE ME .......

2008-12-16T14:10:00.000-08:00

IF YOU MUST LOVE ME

If you must love me
Let it be for nothing
Except for love’s sake only,
Do not say
“I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently

For a trick of thought that
Falls in well with mine
A sense of pleasant ease on such day”
For these things in themselves,
beloved, may be changed or change for thee

And love’s so right may go wrong
Neither love me for your own dear
Pity’s wiping my cheeks dry
A creature might forget to weep
After a long uninterrupted comfort

But love me for love’s sake
That ever more you may love me on
Through love’s eternity.

MY FOOLISH WISDOM

2008-12-16T14:09:00.000-08:00

MY FOOLISH WISDOM

When i was young, i had alot of dreams
With possibilities in them all
Because i was young and believe in God alone
But as i grow older i became wise in my own eyes

I became logical and reasonable
I become a mathetician
I calculate the possibilities of all those dreams
I judged them with my brain

And felt some dreams are too big to come true
Yet i am only been foolish
Because i was born in impossibilities
Grown amidst of complications

And still living amidst of storms
Yet it never occured to me that my dream could survive
Just the way i survived
I become the God of my life

Playing the role of my creator
Thinking about what is possible and what is not
When how i come to be is not even known to me
But yet i exist

My problem is my foolish wisdom
Unknown to me my wisdom is worst than the foolishness
Of God that is, if He is ever in any way
But i use my discretion

My discretion is my doom
This is how a life that doesn't trust God looks
A life that doesnt have CHRIST always have CRISIS
HIS ways are beyond our discretion
All we need is to TRUST and OBEY

PROSTITUTION

2008-12-16T14:07:00.000-08:00

PROSTITUTION
This once baby body of innocense
Glittering of oil mother rub
With a feel of softeness and tenderness
Bringing out truthful wishes
From young and old wrinkle lips
Causing heads turned and eyes unblink

Now the public trading store
The ground dumping of different
Dirts and fluid that stink
Now the body that lips rebuke
Saying it’s a curse to womanhood
Yet it’s only a survival means

A force to keep me moving
When empty space is all i see
Living me wit the dashed of my
formal hopes and dreams
this is a path i got into
thinking it’s an altenative to
my shattered hopes

but now can i stand this shame?
The hidden trade of no value
The trade that mama curse so much
The pain that can kill a mother
Yet the gossips won’t stop
how do i explain to womanhood?

What about dignity and morals?
Where have they gone to so soon?
Early days of my life
A torn shirt is a shame i fear
Now my penny i buy rags wit
Because this is a fashion that
Create awareness of my service

Shamelessness some call it
Sex hawking another rightful view
But PROSTITUTION is a name
That rings bell that even the deaf hear
Yet this survival have come to me
Fully accompanied with diseases
That i never knew nor heard before

Inside filled of me feelings of failure
Preventing me from walking tall
survival that i laid it all down for
unable to save me from my doom
only left me with regrets and shame
what a trade of total loss !

PROSTITUTION is the trade
I broke all the rules of decency
And earned all the ills of life !!!

Loved by an Hunter

2008-12-16T14:05:00.001-08:00

LOVED BY AN HUNTER
Is this love you are giving or loss?
Whispering to me how empty you are?
If ever fly away without a trace?
That was only few weeks back
Gently touching my tender heart
With words so strong to ignore

Tender kisses where have you all gone?
Beach game and romance gone all
With the waves of the beach and wind
The endlessly seems fun have disappeared
This once light heart is too heavy now
Feeling heart could tear out this skin

Where is that love so soothing?
Where is the rythm that gets me dance?
Where is that face i always long to see?
Where is that touch always
Healing my stress away?
This was the thought i never imagine
But here now my fear is as a reality

This day i never wanted to see
But very clearly the day is break on me
With diverse thoughts shouting inside me
Will this dark sky ever be bright again?
My love has failed me woefully
I have been sailed to the middle
Of the ocean and dumped
Now survival goes only to the fittest

Here is my love seems so right
Where does this torn heart goes from here?
Who can help sow this heart torn?
I don’t even know if it still beat at all

Yeepa ! this love of mine
Have rendered me senseless
Love have lost me out so soon
Now it’s so clearly out spelt
I have been loved by an HUNTER

Loved by an Hunter

2008-12-16T14:05:00.000-08:00

LOVED BY AN HUNTER
Is this love you are giving or loss?
Whispering to me how empty you are?
If ever fly away without a trace?
That was only few weeks back
Gently touching my tender heart
With words so strong to ignore
Tender kisses where have you all gone?
Beach game and romance gone all
With the waves of the beach and wind
The endlessly seems fun have disappeared
This once light heart is too heavy now
Feeling heart could tear out this skin
Where is that love so soothing?
Where is the rythm that gets me dance?
Where is that face i always long to see?
Where is that touch always
Healing my stress away?
This was the thought i never imagine
But here now my fear is as a reality
This day i never wanted to see
But very clearly the day is break on me
With diverse thoughts shouting inside me
Will this dark sky ever be bright again?
My love has failed me woefully
I have been sailed to the middle
Of the ocean and dumped
Now survival goes only to the fittest
Here is my love seems so right
Where does this torn heart goes from here?
Who can help sow this heart torn?
I don’t even know if it still beat at all
Yeepa ! this love of mine
Have rendered me senseless
Love have lost me out so soon
Now it’s so clearly out spelt
I have been loved by an HUNTER

I pledge this

2008-12-16T14:03:00.000-08:00

I PLEDGE THIS
My life the greatest pledge i give
To give my best even on a bended knee
Saying the truth in the city of deception
Walking tall in all that i do
To boldly look the world in the eyes
To challenge wickedness with good deeds
To cry for the poor until i am heard
Of what use is my voice anyway if can’t
Scream aloud for the dumb?
These gold and diamonds speak for me
Only as long as i live
Only my deeds can outlast me
My offsprings i am not sure
If ever they will speak after me
But my attitudes i bet
Wind ! only sweat you can blow away
The smoke of my deeds never can you
These wicked and destructive footsteps
I pledge never to reckon with
Friends i rather lack than to befriend
These impostors wanting to take my words
Away and bring back me luxury
I pledge never tp dance to this
Rythym of shame
I rather die with my hands dry
Than to live with my hands blood soaked
I pledge to keep my conscience in order
I pledge to be the rich without a cry
Because i will never make them cry for
Possession of richies to come
I shall bend till i break if that
Is the price for my pledge
When they say
‘let us go deceive, kill and destroy
i pldge to follow them not
because when the whirlwind comes along
only the house of the wicked will crumble
thus, i pledge to uphold justice, decency
morality and hardwork only to quit
the moment this breath of mine
forever goes away
I take a bow
I take a pledge
With an unbreakable will
I pledge this

DEAD HERO

2008-12-16T14:01:00.000-08:00

DEAD HERO
This hero have seen it all at once
The bad, the ugly, the sweet and the sour
This heart was once woven with joy
These arms motionless have embraced dignitaries
This mouth have given orders
Saying ‘go now and fight the war and
Make sure victory is brought’
This heart have known and felt love
Unbroken glory and a gathered radiance
Walking tall and leaving a mark
The years have given him kindness
The dawn, the sunset and colours of
The earth have favoured him
This one have seen movement and
Heard music, known slumber and waking
This one have been loved, gone friended
This one have touched flower and cheeks
This one have been passionately hug
And kissed all at once
This one have fought and won
Fallen and risen
This one have failed and passed
Starved and filled
This one have cried and laughed
This one have slept and dreamt
This one was born and born he
What a life of variety this one have lived
He has heard and was once heard
This breathless thing was once our
Leader and our king
To whom we bow and say
K A B I E S I, your royal highness !
Akinkanju okunrin !
What a brave man !
But here we are missing this man
Standing taller than this man
Greeting him without our chest
On the ground
Waving different shapes and sizes of hands
To this worldly known a conqueror
Whom death has eternally knocked down
This man have truly lived and died
Adieu !!! the hero of our time !

DEAR MAMA

2008-12-16T13:59:00.000-08:00

Dear Mama !
Nine months of you and i
All alone in our own world
Pains of labour only you and i
Thereafter life becomes you and i

Sleepless nights of singing lullaby
Pampering me like a diamond
Mother ! for me, many nights
You went hunger strike
So that my belly will potrude
Sacrifices uncountable

Dear mama
Now i am grown with dreams and wishes
But still our bond remains unbroken
Each moment remembering this woman
Full of strength and courage
What a life of shambles it would have been
Without your inestimable sacrifices

My music teacher from the womb
Mama you are second to none
From the first day i knew you
I knew you are an inestimable jewel
Ever true, timeless and loving

To only buy you diamonds
That will be very ungrateful of me
But forever i will love you
Even in your grave my love i promise
Truly truly i know
You are incomparable !

THIS DAY ........

2008-12-16T13:43:00.000-08:00

THIS DAY.....
My dear inestimable daughter
This day i have prayed and
Prepared you for
This day i can’t help but cry
This day i slaughtered cows for
This day my girl is going
With all the love she has for me
This day she goes away
Forever goes away with this
Man unknown to us but her
As sweet as this my home is
Here she is vowing to live
With this stranger for as long
As she breaths
This day my feeling is purely
Interwoven with joy and sorrow
Diverse thoughts won’t let me be
But here my girl is smilling
Within her thanking her creator
For an answered prayer
Feeling that the mountain is moved
When she has never seen one
Looking at my girl i see a
A traveller with luggages
Gorgeously dressed and seated
In the bus and awaiting a driver
The driver she doesn’t know
The destination already set in the mind
But driver unknown,the route unfamiliar
Yet the destination,her priority
This day she has decided
This day i have accepted
This day, what more can i say?
For all my labour,pains,love
Sacrifices,endurance and resources
This stranger has brought dowry
And tubers of yam to me
Now my girl is gone with him
Gone to be a woman for a man
Gone to give this stranger her breasts
To get the best
Gone to give this man princes and princesses
This day she is gone to bear a strange name
In a strange land of a strange man
This day my girl publicly declared
She has found a new love,home and
Life till her breath walks out on her
This day my girl got married
This day my girl is exhanged for a dowry
This day i love but i cried !