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Defiance (Foe Fela)

Tonight, in kallakulta The walls resound the powerful orations of afrobeat Along the forgotten corridors of time Hoping that they sip true the cracks of continuous reality Tonight in Nigeria; A middle aged man gets high On the afrodosiac nostalgia of his childhood As he sings and sways to the rhythm Tonight in Biafra; A […]

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Come

Before words became the tools of expression This love was sung with the effulgence of glory Too sacred for the unclean lips of fallen man This love existed above time But this love entered time That this love may be eternal Before love became how lowly you can go This love shrunk God into a […]

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Aimed At You

my words would not be washed off Pilate’s hands to crucify them again on vain crosses my words would not re-stress the stress of our leaders they will undress the hypocrisy beneath your dress leaving your lies in a state of unrest my words are aimed at you to unseat the sited holiness of your […]

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Riddle

Riddle What is like Lipstick impression on stained glass? Beautiful! But out of place – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – What is like Fresh roses on display? Enticing! But desires for it fades as it rots away – – – – – – – – […]

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I Leave My Soul

I leave my soul to the scandals of wisdom to the scavenging of glory grind my bones upon the rocks of glory do not bury me make me your fading whisper of a beautiful memory Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Pun

Let the Foreplay of destiny that was before played be fore played Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Still Rising (For Maya)

You may trod me in history With your pretty petty lies, But just like dust trampled to the ground, I’ll rise How long will ours be a once sided dialogue in this conversations of self liberation How long will our best stories be nothing more than antidepressants against the addictions of oppression.? How long shall […]

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Home

Home For me is The brown sands Of the Sahara Where the scalding sun boils Intelligence in the Cauldron of Black skulls Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Raising Men

my words would not seek attention at the ulcer-ed conscience of unreachable malady they will not un-profit in screaming at corruption they will settle to build castles with the chaos of labour to raise children than rebuild men Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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I Will Write Again

I will write again Of slum love and ghetto fantasies of the class blindness of infatuation And well worn chanting rosaries Though each day is a struggle of survival Of hunger, anger and surrender I will write again Of Last night and nights like last night I will write again Though love crept behind enemy […]

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