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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Dear Instagram generationFacebook neighbors from countless nationsWhose who speak in the voice of a twitting bird,Come and riddle me this Sing me a freedom songComposed without the bass linesOf sacrificed blood Find me a free lunchWithout the secret seasoningsOf hidden agendas Bring me a first fruit harvestWithout the fertilizationOf diligent bloody sweats Show me showers […]

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Summon the Gods

Bring me rubles from Maiduguri Let me build a monument to Allah Bring me blood from Bornu Let me fill this trench like Elijah Bring me charred bones from Baga Let me commune with my ancestors I will split my heart on this altar And send them as ravines to the gods Life is a […]

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Stepping Hopes

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 […]

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Is Dad God?

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 […]

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