Love the ultimate lie She’s nothing but a facade Books and movies lie Because the real tale is just so sad I was told of something beautiful Love, serene Yet what I found was pitiful Love is pain Endless wants that another cannot fulfill Blurred lines we see through brille For while we cannot bareContinue reading “Love The Ultimate Lie”
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KALAKUTA REPUBLIC
You can find my soul In the dense shrubbery, She is hidden, covered Camouflaged by weeds You can find my spirit In voicemail, Where calls for change Go unanswered. You can find my body In Kalakuta, Faint Yet very much alive. You can find my brain In the box, Shrouded by ignorance And locked inContinue reading “KALAKUTA REPUBLIC”
A Cautionary Tale
I say a prayer, For the young and the restless. Life not yet lived, Dreams yet to be achieved. A cautionary tale in wait. I shed a tear For my brothers and sisters. Futureless soldiers, The walking dead. Unbeknownst to life, Unbeknownst to death. I pray and I cry. I cry and I pray.
”I POSESS A PRETTY BIRD”
Ohh to cage my innocence is naught but futile For I am now nothing but a hollow shell, yet filled with bright gloom. I am a rotter in the making. Long gone is my meekness, All the joy, all the sweetness. Sunk in an abyss of bitterness. Clipped wings I sit airless Once naive heartsContinue reading “”I POSESS A PRETTY BIRD””
A Repressed Nigerian Youth
‘And the award goes to…’ The crowd goes wild, a standing ovation with shouts of praise ringing from all ‘round. Familiar faces past, present and future glowering with satisfaction yell ‘Speech! Speech!’ I stand up, my confidence glaring, my strut overconfident and my smile misplaced as I walk up the stage to receive my award.Continue reading “A Repressed Nigerian Youth”
A Wallflower’s Elegy
In anger yet I persist “I am a serial monogamist, A social conformist, A clueless idealist And a hopeless optimist… So tell me, I insist How could I be a light in the mist? With this life I resist, Will anyone ever know that I exist?”
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