Wednesday, 6 April 2022

"The Endless Search"

 



"The Endless Search" 


In search for the cure for a fool,

He almost became one

Until he was forced back to his wretched holes

By the strong fledgling arms of new reasonings 

Standing tall against all the body of piled up truth he has ever known.


Truth stored up for long 

Soon loses its efficacy

And become sour in the mouth of youngsters

Who the new times have overfed with sweet sense at their fingertips. 


How we ever came to this point

Has eluded both sense and reason

Nonetheless, we are on a march

With ourselves, dead or alive, as the perpetual slaves

of our search to know which lies beyond knowledge... 

"To Beg is Crime"

 



"To Beg is Crime"


I won't beg you for your thoughts anymore,

Though mine are daily shared on the streets 

by men deprived of home-grown pleasures,

Yet, I won't act beggarly before you.

No, I won't beg you, even though I am one.


We have been warned by you not to be choosers in life

Even when the options are myriad. 

So we won't admit the conditions of our minds. 

No, we will hide behind the cloak of feigned riches,

And pocket our huge balls of ignorance from your scolding eyes,

To be a beggar is an off-sense, to act rich is good sense.


We will be rich before you,

But romance in the dark our plenty I-don't- knows 

Which we are hated for ever desiring to know.



Thursday, 18 November 2021

"The Hungry Soul"


"The Hungry Soul"



When you with scarred feet 

Tiptoes into endlessness

A ray of light spreads its thin self 

To guide the paths of your feeble feet 

Through the rough roads of timelessness.

The curious hunger in your soul 

Yawns endlessly begging for the meat of angels

Or the droplets from a salty sea.

Here time is static but still runs its course 

Circling round and round nothingness

Meaningfulness stretches into vagueness

And all creation get lost in its search of the Creator.











Tuesday, 9 November 2021

"Red Love (Flaming)"

 "Red Love(Flaming)"

Yours words strike hard at everything I hold sacred

They start to flutter, and fall to the ground.

At first, you promised to hold me where I stand

Your tongue flaming while your promises soared round my head

I started to hope again, to bask in the warmth of the heat that cocooned my shivering heart.


Do people change like shifting shadows or do words dissipate quickly like smoke?

I was wondering the one we were

Until our two fingers slip out of our loose grip.


Letting go of what we once held to heart

Was a bitter pill to swallow

But we did it so hard

That a day was enough to get over the gulping pain and the midnight tears. 



"Droplets of Silence"

"Droplets of Silence"



 This piece of everything beautiful that you left behind was a terrific bang of silence

Reaching towards my soul

Then I turned it into a picture frame

And hanged it on my wall

Woke up every morning to its ugly sight

And weep my woes on the wall beside it.


Depression can be adorned to look like a smile

A broad long charming grin

Perching on faces of sorrow.

Yet you will never know

Because they have sworn to never break silence.


But to help your prying minds

They live behind faint whispers

Like a dying soul in the hands of a brute.

Tuesday, 1 June 2021

"When all hell let loose"

 


"When all hell let loose"


What will be has begun

Fate is what we walk into as we return 

Every chapter has a story

We keep flipping till we meet the end.


Arguments, worries, fear,

Sink like stones within your soul

That fall and never rise again.


Belief, breath, hope

Hover over the sky

Reluctant to set feet on the earth they once admired.


You begin to count your loss

For in this, you hope to gain true knowledge of yourself,

Or know why you feel so estranged.


Laughter dies prematurely in between your smothering smiles

Your eyes stretch afar looking into nowhere

Begging sweet memories to return.




Fell in Love with the Wrong Girl"




 "Fell in Love with the Wrong Girl"


Lockdown brought a lot of shits

Down my crib

Dark stuff into my soul

That I ain't proud of. 


Whenever night comes here,

Here's me messing with my phone

Scrolling up and down the street of Facebook

But they're no one to holla.


Then I pulled over a pics,

Of a Short brown skin girl witta a big behind,

That grew up somewhere down South South.


I threw a few hiiiis 

And she respond with excited hellos

Convo flew with high speed,

And I never knew when I asked her out

She said yes and we fell in love.


Some of dem nights

Cold will come upon us,

We then spoke about being in each others arms

Motherfucker sends her crazy pics

Shaking her ass in front ma phone screen.


Things got worse, nigga,

Didn't know when I started to play with my thing.

I imagined banging her on the bed till she screams my name.

I saw her wet pants too.

*Laughs*


Love story now in yesterday,

But ya nigga still hooked on this touching thing,

It ain't getting any better neither am I


Y'all should look before you fall,

Some rivers got invincible sharks with sharp teeth

Dem gonna tear your soul before you know everything happening to you.


This my story,

Now everything seems lost

Cos ya nigga ain't free yet

Stories still goes on

Am a 'keep writing too.


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