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A God, I Am

With just a switch I create light
I create them in different shades
Yellow, blue, red and white
Though they be unlike the sun.

I am a god, I am
great-great things I wrought
The elements proud and strong
my Homage  they brought
Air, Iron, Mistress Earth
Water, Fire, and what have you
At my throne do all bow.

I make things but not life
I make creatures big and small
wrought of my hands,
my own designs
Alas! they breathe not, even all––
though I be a god
Ha! I laugh.

All of nature I hold
and in my fort they dwell
Yet my powers, they fail me
for still I be a mortal soul
and when death’d come, I can’t tell
My life’s gone and I am dust!

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Candle In the Dark

She’s a Candle
Glowing in the dark…
A lighthouse 
Pointing to the shore… 
Through gloomy days that seem so dark 
Through tempests that rage and pour 

She’s the Oasis 
That quenches my thirst…
The passion 
Burning in my veins…
My heart swells within my chest 
My passion, my pleasure, my joy, my pain

She’s the mystery 
I never can solve…
The balm
That soothes my tears…
My goal, my zeal, my sole resolve 
With her I mock and taunt my fears

She’s the kiss 
I can’t forget …
Yet the very one 
That broke my heart…
My love, my soul, she did reject 
My dreams, my hopes, she knocked them flat

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Temi!

I gathered water in my palms,
and cupped the sun in my fist;
I claimed the wind as my own
but who can drain the ocean? 

I chased a star as it fell
even the rainbow to its tail;
I tracked the wind to its home
but who can clothe the earth red?

I sought a pin in the Nile
and drew my face on the sky;
I cast my line in Dead Sea
But who can love like you did?

Oh Temi!

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Across the Niger

Let the sun meet the moon
and the dusk embrace the dawn;
let parallels form a plain
a bridge to unite East and West.

Let language be no curse 
and distance be no barrier;
let earthly divides cease to be 
like ashes scattered to the wind.

Across the Niger I found my bride
let no tongue wag or snide;
love transcends language or tribe
and I return a fulfilled soul!

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Desire

Stuttering words, they fade away
dying like a flame gone cold;
Nothing much is left to say
but this need that's born of old,
old as the skies up above.

Now! Now! the fervent plea
sung by lips seeking a bond;
This must be... it must be...
frantic pants of souls love-burned,
dazed by desire's hot touch

Our eager lips cling together
urging on an explosion;
Time recedes, she goes further
borne by waves of that ocean
that sweeps across our hungry hearts.

Alas! her father, he walks in
and we spring far-far apart;
Babbling words to hide our sin
still it burns in our hearts
this earth-born need between you and I

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Alone

I searched high I searched low
I tried to join the flow...
yet love deals a bitter blow
why should this always be so?

I gave all that I own
wore a smile over my moans
but my tears won't melt a stone
always I love yet I'm left alone

Now I pray for love that's true
Love that's whole, pure and new...
someone to paint my sky deep blue
tell me girl, will it be You?

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Let Us Speak

Let us speak 
no more of wars;
turn your left cheek
when struck and booed...
cleanse each other's sores
like a brother would.

Strife bears no rose...
carnage wears no garland;
Of what use is "these" and "those"
when Red flows through all veins?
let's make peace an eternal standard
and happiness'd have no stain.

Let Language be no curse
nor belief become a barrier
Colour is just a vainful force
of what use be these three?
Let's make peace our lifelong career
and love'd set mankind free!

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Polarity

Positive plus, Negative minus
on chanted my science teacher 
Positive runs, Negative hops 
they never met each other;
Positive North, Negative South
poles of magnets, Mother Earth
positive charge, Negative swells 
'lectricity comes to be!

Positive you, Negative me
our differences make us unique
Positive here, Negative there
balancing earth's mighty scales;
For every this, a that exists 
and righty too I dare to say 
for if we lacked all opposites
what a place our world'd be!

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Babel

A thousand tongues cackle on, 
championing divergent views;
then hatred comes, a tidal wave, 
washing ashore total chaos.  

A thousand voices bawl and brawl, 
heeding not the other’s words;
each clings to its own beliefs, 
and disdains all other ways.  

Hatred sings, destruction sways, 
still the tongues they shout loudly; 
each proffers the remedy, 
yet Babel strikes, raiding unchecked!

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Mama!

I touch her cheeks with my lips
somethings seems amiss...
for no warmth greets my kiss

I touch my hand to her wrist
no sign, even the least...
can fate deal such bitter twist?


Immobile, she lies on her bed 
it sinks slowly in my head...
my lovely mother... is dead!