Of Gaza’s bonesAnd Syria’s marrows,I would tell you their talesLike folktales with nursery rhymes,To form parts of yourChildhood memories Of the blood I suckedThrough my trigger’s mouthAnd of the flesh roastedWith my feral mind,I would tell you stories of love,Of hatred, and pity, and livesRuined while I obey deadly orders See my smiles,They are reciprocal […]
Damilola Ojo Their eyes sparkle, gleaming at the possibilities of achievement, bodily perversion contravening the law of nature, the pulchritude of its eventuality glows in the minds of its initiators. ‘Soul nature differs from physical appearance’ The message of this deviance gradually pierces our conservative tradition, robbing our memory of its innocence, creeping into our […]
When dreams are becoming illusionYou can’t make out between visionOr delusion and your goals and dreamsSeem to be flying away on light beams When life’s silence grows louderAnd it seems the end is nearWhen stormy forces grow strongerAnd all our hopes are ‘strained by fear When darkness shines the blackestWhen life’s storm hits the hardestAnd […]
He rules us – a fiery beast Supreme! Unquestionable fist He says he knows what’s best for all Through winter, summer, spring and fall To him we’re enslaved appliances To rule and stomp to compliance Our welfare his least agenda For his, we must run helter, skelter His broad shoulder is no shelter They do […]
INVITATION come into my parlour,said the spiderto the fly;never mind the cobwebs,just come in and don’tbe shy;find a wealth of gourmetto suit your palate’schoice;let not my smile deter youor the silence of the noiseface it —this is heaven,leave the air’s thick fog,and rest;enter my conditioned netto bask indelicatessecome into my parlour,said the spiderto the fly;I […]