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Autobiography Little About Me

'Autobiography' little
about me.
Whenever I recall my
infant years
Which I spent on
dumping
grounds
When daddy stabbed
mum's heart
-with an unhonored
divorce
In those sunny days
Before i began to 
cling
on adult's
wings
'I laughed then I 
cried'
Just to give the 
earth-
What it
demands
I tossed around with
my red pant
In a circular direction
Under the roof of 
the
frigthened
sun
There I was, to feel 
the
innocent
world
My mum cried and 
cried,
All because her heart
was left
uncovered
O I must cry too,
Because her breast 
was
dried in
suffering
When our kinsmen
reject us
Mosquitoes came in 
the
night
To give us a bitter
sound of relief
Then Suffering
comforted us with
his hunger
What goes into our
mouths
-Never passes 
through
our anus
because our bellies
were not
satisfied
Let me pause a while
and mourn
my twin-sister
Our rivers both 
flooded
the same
stream
But she has now
diverged to the
sea i never taste
Kehinde! when 
would i
see thy
face again?
Here also, to die, is
better than to
live
When would lightning
flash and
-take the 
photograph of
our
wearied souls
To the throne of 
mercy
To start again our
world in
sweetness
My people!
Daddy is back again
from the lake
of lust
To cover my mum's
heart with
urgent harmony
Should we receive 
him
again
-or reject his offer?
Because now our 
hearts
are filled
with sugar.
Adesitimi Taiwo
Nigeria.

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I Know a River

I know a river;
long before I began to 
hold a pen
those days of-
-"twinkle, twinkle little 
star"
I know a river;
A river of words; 
not river-benue or 
river-niger
But its a  river that 
flows in human-
imagination
And a paper is made as 
a boat
-paddled with pen
To sail a message to 
the earth
From heaven's gate
-a lullaby to the infant 
and wise-words to the 
adult
I know a river; 
Shakespeare and 
others've been to the 
river
-they took their bathe 
and left
Today,
Here I stood by the 
river bank,
With my colleagues 
Akewusola habib, 
Oludipe samuel,
muhammad-ahmad 
-Rasak-malik-
Gbolahan, Randy 
michael, Oloidi kingfemi 
and others
In the young of our 
days 
Bathing in the  river of 
words
Though we're nude in 
the river 
But we're clothe with 
our imaginations
I know a river;
A river from solomon's 
source 
Now I am swimmer,
-in its floods
Adesitimi Taiwo Damilola.

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Never Mourn At My Funeral

Never mourn at my
funeral
Because i'm not dead
but sleeping
And relaxing on
Abraham's bossom
Never mourn at my
funeral
You that come in 
view
to mourning
But within you, 
you're
here to mock
Because my poetry 
has
once expose your
secret-deeds
Throw my body 
where
you please
Or let it be
dismembered
Never mourn at my
funeral
You the insect that
bites my daffodils
And you who want 
my
fish to swim on a 
dry
earth
Throw me on a 
stormy
sea
Where Jonah fell
But its a glorious 
shame
I can never sight the
river bank of Joppa
Never mourn at my
funeral
You that come in my
maker's name
Just to bless my end
Go thy way and 
search
for lust souls
Wear them a 
garment
pure as snow
Before they lie low 
with
me
And journey hell 
eternal
Never mourn at my
funeral
But mourn for we're
debtors of death
Adesitimi Taiwo

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My Song of Sorrow Part 1

"MY SONG OF SORROW"part 1'
I sing to you my song of sorrow
A song from my bittered-heart
To call your consent to solemn-meeting
Tears rolled down my face
Like when the sky is profusely-cryin g
I wailed till my very physical-eyes saw nothing
It was so great that I bathe inmy tears
Its just for you,
-You the children of end time!
In thy presence faith and church are dying
And the kingdom race is less-running
Those who stand among you to run are falling
-and those who hath fallen are dying
The more the heaven is getting near
The less you're striving to enter
O children of end time!
You seek after girl-friend & boy-friend
-till you're completely lost in lust
You clothe thyself with the garment of wickedness
You bring thy arrogance-shoul ders-up against your parents
I wailed for you,
-Only God knows if I would stop wailing
Your hair-style is like the hair of a goat
-when he arose in his anger
You kill the cities with the slangs of thy mouths
The slangs like ancient-incanta tions
All in the name of "swagger"
I blow for you now the flute of salvation
Because days, months and years are like an uprooted-flower
When sun-set, it withers
Repent now before you sleepbeneath the sand

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War In Her Wedding Gown

War 
in 
her 
wedding
gown
The 
bride 
of 
the 
world
Waiting 
for 
her 
groom
to 
come
Some 
say 
its 
a 
conjugal
bliss
While 
others 
say 
a 
vale
of 
tears
From 
what 
I 
captured
live 
from 
my 
telly
I 
hold 
with 
those 
who
say 
vale 
of 
tears
Two-
drummers 
are
beating 
their 
drums
mingles 
with 
the 
sound
of 
a 
gong
War 
touches 
her 
head
and 
her 
anus
She 
faces 
the 
four
cardinal 
points
And 
she 
dances 
and
turns 
in 
an 
india-
style
Alas, 
viewers 
go 
the
way 
of 
all 
flesh
Péople 
wobbling 
up 
and
down
Because 
the 
bride 
has
gone 
mad
She 
runs 
here 
and 
there
As 
if 
she've 
lost 
her
groom
She 
runs 
to 
the 
market
Shops 
and 
houses 
fell
to 
swallow 
human
bodies
A 
large 
passage 
to
infant 
graves
And 
be 
one 
external
viewer
I 
snivel 
for 
peace
Later, 
the 
two
drummers 
vanished 
like
a 
candle 
flame
My 
people,
The 
fame 
of 
war,
Is 
the 
flood 
of 
human
blood
And 
still, 
war 
is 
calling
for 
her 
groom
Which 
are 
yet 
to 
be
found
To 
tell 
the 
drummers
the 
need 
for 
harmony
But 
now, 
the 
drummers
are 
gone
And 
the 
innocent
viewers 
die 
like 
flies
Until 
the 
day 
the
drummers 
are 
in
harmony
Thereafter, 
her 
groom
will 
come 
to 
the 
scene
to 
appease 
her
Adesitimi 
Taiwo

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We Shall Vote With Our Consciences

" WE SHALL VOTE 
WITH  OUR  
CONSCIENCES"

Let us cast our minds 
back to '1983' massacre
When inking our thumbs 
were as inking our 
death-warrants
We exercised our 
franchise in peace
But the result was 
given in pieces
We roared against it !!
Our roars were 
silenced by gun
Then,   
Roads were littered with 
human-bones
And frozen bloods in 
our drainages
Homes were razed to 
flame
The hands of Akure 
sons were drumming
-the broken-wall in 
sorrow
And her daugthers 
were dancing in anguish
To the feast of war
Today,
We shall vote with our 
Consciences
To elect our favourite 
not an alien
-Who came from 
beyond to rule our 
within
My people!
Help me to tell 'PDP'
We can no longer stay 
under their teared-
umbrella
Where our heads 
expose to sun's rays
Tell 'ACN' brooms can 
no Longer sweep away 
our banes
Tell 'LP' it's done whats 
good
Our consciences'll say 
maybe 'LP' to stay or go
All I know is that;
We shall vote with our 
consciences.
Poet: Adesitimi Taiwo.

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Remember Me

REMEMBER ME (poem 
for all poets by 
Adesitimi Taiwo 
Damilola)

I am a poetic hero;

In my veins flow 
rivers of satire
And my words are 
the locusts,
Munching 
corruption’s 
greenleaves!

My words speak for 
the mere men,
And shines light on 
the darkdeeds
Of them that loot our 
war chest!

My words are like 
the lightning
Showing you a path 
to the shore of 
solace
When sorrow rains 
on your heart!

So remember me 
when I've gone
The way of my fore-
fathers,
Beyond the border 
of this world!

When I go where 
legs shall walk
Into the womb of the 
earth
On the lane of 
eternal silence!

My people let my 
words remain
In your heart and 
recite my verses
When thorns grow 
on your earth!

Whisper my name to 
the ears
Of your unborn, that 
I was once thunder,
Before the time of 
their rainfall!

Nigeria, celebrate me 
now
And when I breathe 
no more,
Inscribe my name on 
remembrance’ wall!

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Africa, I Were the One You Killed

"Africa, I were the one 
you killed"

In those misery-days; 
When happiness of 
birth cried with an 
oversized echo; 
Africa, when your gods 
roared in its wooden-
cages
I were the twins you 
unjustly killed; 
-Just to appease your 
gods
When darkness fell on 
the skin of your sky
-and gave it ugly spot;
I were the lamp-lights 
you held;
to walk on the blood-
shed roads,
when "ebora-Inu-igi" 
are thirsty and in full 
rage,
-in their desert homes.
My bloods you gave, to 
turn away their  anger.
Africa, when you killed 
your"today"
Tell me what would your 
tomorrow be?
Thanks be to angel 
Mary Slessor,
who came to dry-clean 
the tears of Mama-
Africa, with her most 
decent affection.
Africa, I can't laugh 
without you,
because; I will simply 
be half without you.
Africa, I'm back-again 
not to avenge,
but to tell you how much 
I love you.
Poet: Adesitimi Taiwo 
Damilola

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She's More Than Gold

"she's more than 
gold"

In her haven I 
reside for nine 
months;
she sleeps and 
wakes in pain
until my head comes 
out her womb;

she shivers in the 
rain
when she searches 
for my needs
o what a great 
mother!

she's my mother,
she's more than gold!

she humbles her 
breast for me to suck
though I bite her 
nipple with my teeth
but she nods to my 
innocent deed

when I begin to grow 
teeth;
sickness emaciates 
my bones,
and she annoints my 
head with tears

she's my mother!
she's more than gold!

she nurses me till I 
become her father
and she pilots me to 
the evening of my life
to where my eyes 
can see the world

She's my mother,
she's more than gold!

I pray for you my 
mother
your legs will never 
attend my funeral
neither your tears to 
wet my infant grave

and I'll live to nurse 
you to your old age
before you sleep the 
sleep of elders
Adesitimi

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I Will Rise

"I will rise"

I will rise, "boldly I 
say",
You that study my 
stars and say,
-it will but dim
Let me wake from my 
dream
Like Joseph, soon I'll 
rule
don't take me for fool
I'll rise and see my 
glory even if I've no 
eyes
Like Barthlomew I will 
see with surprise
Don't be afraid of 
selling me to the 
Ishmeelites
Do it, because its just a 
lift to my heights
I will rise, even if 
potiphar's wife comes 
my way
I know she is a hole on 
my way
She knows I'm at the 
corner to my throne
"I'll rise", to you is just 
a mere tone
My brothers, to me, this 
is not a sorrow
Because you will bow 
for me tomorrow.
Adesitimi Taiwo.