Adunni (Love Poem)

I see men hovering around Sweating and bolstering to make you smile! Like the ants invading my moustache For imprints of sweets you left on my lips Their voices whispering appraising beauty of you Hope the heavens are not bankrupt It seems you emptied it’s glittering vault As before you now, all angels are flawed […]

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Innocent Blood

Innocent bloods Is no sacrifice to an akbar Allahu Innocent blood Is no food for God Innocent blood Is not the price of freedom Innocent blood Should make all gods puke Yes! Yours too! Weather Je Sui tCharlie or I Am Baga Mike Brown or Eric Garner Innocent lives matters Bring back Our Girls Originally […]

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Rebirth

in pain, in suffering, in hunger I reborn myself! pushing the limits in the fortitude of travail. I will rise a new man Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Peace/Ploughshares

There will always be grievances War is the raging darkness Hungry for a slice of the human soul It is Thirsty To be drunk on the blood of innocent men The bar has been lowered and welded tight crushing the broken bended back of peace This bar Is not war, this bar is oppression No […]

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Spot

My buttocks are sore from sitting long My ears hurt from fangs of similar tongues My tongue: forlorn from penury of monotonous songs If remain on this spot I’ll soon be a spot! Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Who Says

i know a fish that a flies a bird that swims I’ve seen predators befriend preys so who says it cant be done? just walk them by and do it Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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God Made Tears For Days Like These

God made tears for days like these Love is a broken bottle inside pregnant wombs Emotions are shattered glasses in baby’s court Hearts pounding me on the stakes of folly Hearts were made to bleed! God made tears for days like these Love was blind and I wrote braille Love was deaf, and I sang […]

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Sankara

Whether on motherland or in death; We will win! I shed my blood and bleed my tears On the unmarked grave Cursed for bearing your unripe body; Sacred for covering the shattered and Fragmented pieces of what was once your body In a concoction of your brave blood seeped in injustice Offered on the sacrifice […]

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Days As These

No man can stand this gory sight Let darkness hide us in the shadows of the night Tell the sun to hide our abyss from his light Our destiny is a height of pitiable plight We eat with bloody hands at the brotherhood of love Rivers of our reality, splits into delta of deaths, And […]

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For Mike Brown

THE NOOSES STILL HANG Maybe the gods are in KKK Maybe fate allies with hate But the smokescreen fades one again Around the farce of love that never existed Hands in the air pleading don’t shoot Choking on a chokehold till breath mute Hate in the intensive care of malice Roars again in this crisis […]

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