KANO. 23 JANUARY, 2012.

The sun in smoke was covered
as everywhere was in roars:
she placed her hands on aged breasts
and pictured it:
Kano: a city of rubble and death.
DARKNESS

Then military's intervention came
making obvious the doom that lay forth:
the stutter of gunfire,
the muffle of orphaned cries.
DARKNESS

That long- held- patient cry awoke:
looking upon his lifeless body
she said a prayer
'No mother should her son bury,
good lord, I'd gladly give my soul for his'
DARKNESS

tWeNtY and FoUR

From birth,

heaven gave her word:

'His name shall be Momoh,

Momoh who in Aquarius born'

Judgement

that can only be gifted by heaven:

upon me the lord released,

making my life like a jewel shine

Then my father to me speaks:

'as you turn tWeNtY and FoUR

my favors well you'd enjoy

as with lavish and grace, i'd freely give'

To not too distant past I think,

remembering when life to me was ill. 

.......... THE TAP HEAD

At 9:00pm

the president on news came

I heard him say a slogan

‘save water: every drop matters’

I asked mother for a drink

and she said

'turn the tap head,

and pray that this time, water flows’

I look through window as I turn the tap head

and see water lavishly wasted

in fountains that never run dry

and sprinklers that wet green grass

I swear a tear escaped my eyes,

as I turned in disappointment from the tap.

sWEET sPACE

A vow to myself I swear,

in immorality

would I not engage

for all the time I have left

But you,

my personal weakness:

it amazes me how

from closed to open I go at your sight

As I look in distance

and see you smile,

even more like slut I feel

when 'I love you' you say

Sadly, if truth be told,

You leave me in sweet space.... wanting more

FROM THE GALLERY

With tears smart,
I watched from the gallery
as the straps grip
firmly held him in place.

Tears flowed from my eyes
just as they flowed
when dagger
to my fathers chest he drew.

My lover of me asks,
'how is it that your eyes tear?
when without thought,
he made you fatherless'

To sum it all, 1 + 1 =2,
what justice do I find in two deaths?

A friends DISEASE

She waited for a stranger,
and fear took her mind;
a stranger who would curse
as from behind he penetrated her.

She waited prepared for a stranger:
for she knew
the pain and disease
his harm will bring to her.

Instead she saw a friend,
in secure arms she let her guard down.
he threw her to cold floor,
and did the strangers deed.

Now with a friends disease,
she forgives and tries to live right.

OUTSTRETCHED

I saw your hands outstretched,

your palms open and warm:

In them you offered hope,

hope that your love will be lasting.

I heard you say,

'do not my advances refuse,

for with intentions fair,

I approach with a lovefilled heart'

Your mouth of words tired:

Those words that should have been calm,

but my troubles were even severer

for the poor bliss of your words to settle

My insecurities raged onwards:

your palm I refused, and my way I went.

UNCERTAINTY

I fear wandering
For no matter where I tread
Every path
To the unknown leads

My quest for knowledge confuses me
Its as though
The more I insist on knowing
The less I learn

Ive sought freedom
But in my mind, the thought resounds:
‘Possibly before we are free
We should be fearful’’

My life revolves around uncertainty
Only the certainty of nothingness reassures….

nEW bEgGininGs....

This year has been one with many begginings for me: I got featured in my very first print magazine, I started my first proper job, I started a retirement savings account, ..........

A liFE BY CHAnce

From a father to his son was said

'Your life be by chance
for your existence to your parents
none but pain a thousand fold brings'

Of love... of mercy upon her heart
your mother with you a chance took.
But when with years you grow,
my own chance I shall take

In the rivers deep I shall cast you,
and with delight, hope by chance you drown'