I think I heard the sound of a halting fleet
I think the breeze has blown around my wrinkled brow
The aura of my child
Go look above the hanging hills
Search the valleys and comb the wood
Is there any glance of my child coming?
Aha... There he comes
When the hawk cried before the dawn
And the swallows whistled long into dusk
I knew my child will come
Its been a year since you left
I've prayed daily that life bring you back in peace
See my walls have risen
The harvest bumper
And my barns are full
I have kept a moon for you
Welcome home!
I heard you cross the Niger
To the banks of Benue
I heard you dared the storms
And brave the flames
You basked in the heat of Makurdi’s sun
And danced in the rain of Wurukum
The kembes of Wannune can't stop you
You've even learnt how to survive the daggers of herdsmen
There is nothing that can stop you now
Welcome home my child
Come and sit before this hearth
Where your aching feet is warm
Share with me the kola nut of life
It will make you understand wisdom in this world
Some things will never change
Like the strips on the zebra skin
Some tears will never dry
Like those rivers running into the sea
Some people never dies
Like the golden names on the history slates
Some prayers are never answered
Like those of the royal roses grassing the desert plans
Life has limit within its stretches
It won't always tilt the good way
Love life's unfolding with thanks
And accept people for who they are
The past is gone
Tomorrow is always unknown
So live now
Live today
Life may turn its cruel sides
Fence of confidence sometimes fall
Empires crash when dreams seems twisted
Those times you want to scream
You want to spit out all your sadness
Weeping is allowed at times
After all, tears is that part of us
That steadies the sail of our souls in the storm
Yet tears don't heal every wound
They only glitter the shores of pains
Life is cruel to some and fair to none
It seldom gives reasons to smile
When the going gets tough
And it seems hardest to smile
Always remember this
Storms by nature don't last
So do every pain and worry
Hold your peace my child
That darkness too will pass
You don't know where this life will take you
Maybe far from this rotten mat
To those ivory lands behind mighty mountains
Beyond the vast and boarderless sea
Wherever you are
However far you may go from here
Never forget the wisdom of your root
Those who run blindly after the world
Run quickly out of the world
Don't drink from the cup of ambition to the dreg
Don't haunt too much for power and beauty
There is neither peace nor end to that road
Some will underestimate you
Avoid them
Some will exaggerate you
Ignore them
If the blood be red and the hands be clean
There will be no mountains on your path
That will be too high to climb
Rise my child
From the feet of my fathers
Travel into your destiny
Chose your fate and captain your soul
With love in your heart
Wisdom in your head
And honesty on your hands
You may wonder where this life's wandering is taking you
But always remember
Good things will come to you too
Never forget your humble origin
The child of who you are
© Olatuja Oloyede
You're bright like a
Yellow sun that gazes day.
You're kind like like a
Gorgeous rainbow that paints sky.
You're mild like a
Morning dew on a rose petal.
You're bright, kind and mild
Until the day you grew a new wing.
_niyeric9518
©soulPoet
09-04-18
I am going home.
Filled with ecstasy at first,
It's called love at first sight
But like a smoke it faded away
The innate love gradually waxing cold.
Tired of the ever lifeless haven
Fed up with the unending light-less times
Brown is the water and black is the heart.
Struggling to make head way but
The head is continually beaten by
The only source of illumination.
I'm going home!
Away from extorts of the knights
And exploitation by the institutions in broad day lite.
Not that home is blatantly a Heaven,
The home is not really a better place
But, it's still a father compared to the son of this place!
©Gbolahan, Justice ABIOLA
*LOVE*
He's the modest of all,I've meet
Too handsome that I'd to quit my ex
So close that I think of no one else
He shines and glows brighter than the sun
His face stuns,that I'd no word left to say
What can I offer?
T-shirts are good, watches are nice,
Nothing can be so sweet like a kiss from him
He's an epitome of which words can't describe
When I'm restless,he gives me a dose more soothing than the drugs a doctor can prescribe
When am driving,I need no lamp
Cos his words are my light in darkness
When am so full of myself and unfaithful to him,
He never let go,but he's loyal and faithful
My heart pants for him,cos he's the life running through my veins
He is all I desire cos he is not a lair
Indeed he's the true definition of love......
© Abimbola D-xpressionz
Terror is the horror of the day,
People languishing in pain
Beggars have gone on strike
The road is now empty
We clamour for repair
They gave in return despair
Should we have stuck to transformation?
Or is this the change we need?
I shake my head...
Still we say stealing isn't corruption
We've gone from pan to fire
Let's go back to tillage, they say
But where's the empowerment
I shake my head...
Graduates, ko ko ko, they go with shining shoes,
On the streets, no job
Fathers can't perform,
Mothers can't reform
Lack and want is the order of the day
I shake my head...
I shake my head, for the unborn generation,
For the Fatherless,
For the hopeless,
For the destitute,
For the Poor,
For the weak
We wrestle not against flesh and blood
We need an angel, humans can't do it
Because my head will fall from my neck
I'm tried of shaking my head
©Gbolahan Justice Abiola
The lies you tell
Can cast a spell.
The spell it cast
Can blind the eyes.
The eyes it blind
Can give love.
The love it gives
Can cause a mess.
The mess it cause
Can break a trust.
The trust it breaks
Can break a bond.
The bond it breaks
Can break a heart.
The heart it breaks
Can bleed to death.
©Nathaniel Stella.
A million cry
Slowly as the seconds count before our very own breath, its more than three month now with no single achievement. Students have cease to be one. Everyone is displaying insanity on the street. A saying goes thus; *"it is insane to be sane in an insane environment"*.
Over two scores, the nation still lives in late 19century tactics by refusing to pay workers, telling tales to the people how they'd build castle in the air ones s/he emerges but *all is done in 360 degree*. Over ten thousand students are being deprieved of their right and all is based on self interest which some will say they are not graced from Jah. *"When will we stop telling lies against Jah, and face reality?"*
A million cry yearly over bad governance of the ggovernment that has cease to meet the people's need and he feels it just to take the jeopardising step he took. The millions that cry are the masses that voted the aspirant into power. *"How long shall we stop being the same puppet of the unjust?"*
Daily as the Sun grows old, and still remains single and her beauty never fades away, we shall always be dupe, deprived, robbed, assassinated and brutalized if we turn deaf ears to the ongoing. The people needs to change not for good but from the old ways that has dragged them to the mud. Then, goodness from new ways will be their acolyte but a friend always say *"old habits are hard to break!"*
Finally, as for the future aspirants reading this, nature is spiritually, physically, mentally, financially, and psychological incline to be duped. Don't play with the unborn generation's future all in the name of pay back, power, name. *Karma is a prostitute that sleeps with everyone.*
*Let s/he that has a brain do the needful.*
© Taiwo Daniel
With heads hung high in the skies
With lies and deceit openly crawling into our lives
Helplessly were we forced to fold our hands
By circumstances unseen which tied our eyes
Our labours thrown on another soil
Our harvests brought again not joy unto us
Our lives gradually have turned empty and void
Our cries no longer matter since we all are poor
Hearts ripped with undue cause
For still a mystery remains if we were cursed
For our identity we'd searched for, for long
On a fruitless journey to live as one
Our brothers turned loathers
Insane hypocrites who fed off our streets and ate our peace
Our brothers turned crueslome animals
Who feed on friends and foe in peace
The land is hungry for change
The air sweeps and desperately wants to be clean
Our hearts, searching for that peace
Our minds, begging for purity
My part is small,for the world is big
To generations unseen,fight against prejudice
Our right,our freedom
Shall we get only once we're free
© Tujahsuccess
Our Bodies gyrated to the loud music
We wiggled, rocked, twisted and swayed
Like lab rats, we ingested loads of chemicals
Science students experimenting different liquids, our body the laboratory
Burning sticks, incense chasing away common sense
Each person a player, you can not beat the chimney team
Reliving the Noah's ark experience, we went in, in twos
To escape the impending flood of libido, different genders, coitus thereafter
In the morning, we wake with body full of regret and hang over
Reflecting, pondering, wishing we acted differently if things started allover.
©Prospero
All we ask of you
is that you kill not our dreams
so that when we eat
the mouldy bread of affliction today
we can imagine we're having
the honey crusted crumbs of tomorrow
All we ask of you
is our right to dignity
We can only bite our nails and stare
at your fine velvet capes
will you also have
our lice ridden rags?
All we ask of you
Is that you do not sacrifice our future
on the alter of ambition
Do not put out our lights
So all our days of darkness
will be worth it in the end
All we ask of you
is our lives
in exchange for yours
That's all we're asking
is it too much to ask?
©Josh Ébuka
Dedicated to:
#AAUA
#ODSG
*DEDICATED TO ALL THE ORPHANS OUT THERE*
Seating on a lonely sit
All by myself
Thinking of how it all began
The memories we had,
The love we shared,
The laughter,
The advice,
The scolding,
The fight
But nature has choose to play hard on me
Nature what wrong have I done to you?
Why do you choose to take away my treasures?
My source of inspiration and laughter
But who are my to question the creator?
The end of time can't be turned,
but the future lies all positives"
Prior to lion is a cub
Every great tree was once a seed.
And every king was once a suckling baby.
It doesn't matter what you are today,
what matters is what you will be tomorrow.
Keep investing in yourself and keep hope alive!
Nothing should stop you from attainting that height
Not even death
Keep believing in yourself
And your tomorrow
#D- Xpressionz*
© Abimbola Noble
Love to the hills
The world so heavy by Carried by a pin
Defines my love for you my darling queen
My heart skips a beat at the sound of your feet
Your charm keeps my heart ever resounding
The light In my deepest valley
Though blind but still my eyes dare to see
This beauty that radiates the earth and
Like a bee has stung my heart and sunk so deep
She's the moon in my ever lit shining sky
The star that shines so bright with an angelic smile
You're more fairer than the morning sun
You're the golden fire that burns my silvered heart
You're the angel that keeps my calm
You're the river bank I keep my yatcht
You're the flower who's scent lifts my heart into the air
You're the rarest beauty life has ever seen
My damsel of delight
My golden loving pride
My Ever beautiful Olori
Having you simply completed my masterpiece
©Tujahsuccess
When I was 7, my classmate told me
"Boys aren't suppose to play with girls"
I never really asked why
I mean why should I
She was the oldest of all the girls
(the ones in my class I guess)
When I was 8, I had my first kiss
No it wasn't a him
Damn right you got it
I kissed a miss
I'm not sure you can call that sin
I mean how was I suppose to know it wasn't meant to be
By 08.5, our relationship grew stronger
When I was 9, I had my first sex.
It was weird at first
Maybe cause it was lesbian sex
We did it again when her mom was away..
We tried 69
Trust me, it was exciting
When I was 10, I had my first heartbreak
She fell in love with a boy
He lived just down the street
No warning no signs
She left without a word
No worries cause soon enough
I met another girl that I could love
©Khaytee
You allured me like virgin Mary,
And I adorned you
Like Joseph the carpenter.
Your rosaries are
More than Hushpupp Gucci.
But yesterday
I saw you at Gomorrah
With henchmen of Apocalypse.
Oh! Delilah,
Tear the mask, I'm Samson.
_niyeric9518
©soulPoet
10-04-18
*In The Midst of The Broth*
Many dip their hands deep into the potion,
Some bury their heads deep to find the solution,
But all standsup for nothing but re-election,
And few notably for their first election.
Sad to face eviction,
Many give up to a lot of seduction,
But whether the broth is cold or in commotion,
There can't be a real seclusion,
For those who truly cares to make the difference in their generation.
There obviously is a dislocation,
And the groin hurts to the junction,
Causing more pain than the system canst properly function,
But whether it's up for destruction,
Or they're making up so much decoration,
Their messiah is here not to offer a salvation.
A million-naira question,
Yet no one would bell the cat and save the poison from going inside that potion.
For the humankind is the only virus cursed with the horrifying knowledge of its hots fragile mortality -
And if we all knew this-
I bet, there won't be a division!
©EazyLines
2018
Tears of blood fall from her broken heart
When ever she remembered how you ripped her heart apart
When you held her, you said forever
Now that you're gone, she knows it meant never
Saying you loved her with that look in your eye
Was a cold-hearted lie
One thing about you she will miss
Is your tender kiss
She should have cried a long time ago
But she can't just let go
Maybe with her love is blind
She had only you on her mind
What you did to her is deeper than the wound of a knife
Yet I believe wounds heal and she'll go on with life.
✍🏽 ©KennyDaniel
I can hear the beckoning calls of the river waves....
I'm coming to embrace your silence.... Tell your emissaries not to herald my presence with rumblings....I am me.... My grudge is against the naked moon.... Nothing.... Noting..NOTHING...
