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And Strangers Came

My heart clings to the 
memories of that night 
When the strangers came 

I lay on my neatly dressed 
bed 
With the sheet recently 
changed 
Staring at the ceiling
Carefully studying the patterns 

She would be here soon 
I thought, as I glanced at my 
wrist 
Wearing a goofy grin 

Tonight should be the night
I consoled myself 
After many nights of failed 
attempts 
Blood running towards my 
groin 
Goose pimples playing its 
tricks 
On my skin 

Euphoria hitting me like drug 
abuse 
As I fantasize the night ahead 

Alas!!! I hear my door go 
knock 
Like a child running to 
embrace his mama 
I answered the door 
That's when my limbs went 
numb 

They stood there 
Holding her like a strayed child  
The lust in their eyes 
Shinning like a rising sun 

little sobs escaping her lips 
Driving painful thrusts into my 
heart 

And I tried, tried to save her 
That's when I felt the tin sharp 
blade 
Sliding into me slowly

I could do nothing now 
Nothing for her 
I felt the warm liquid sliding 
down my belly 
Slowly I found the ground

As I watch them quench Their 
lust 
One by one, 
They took turns on her 
Like their last supper 
They lavished her 

Calling onto my name slowly
She moans bitterly
Begging for my life and hers 

The tears from her eyes 
Making my blood gush 
As I curse my existence
For the pains she receives now
As a parting gift   

before the last one reached 
orgasm  
The reaper came for me...

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2014



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Horrors of Boko

Chinua Achebe should write a 
book  
From the grave 
To soothen the hearts of the 
afflicted
the arrow of god is upon us 
Things have indeed fallen 
apart 

Niyi Osundare can en script a 
poem 
Even if he's long gone ghost 
 His bewildered lawn 
has been blasted by Boko 
bombs 
Our painful plight 
Its still his business

Christopher Okigbo, do what 
you do best
Your hands may yet be dust  
pierce the heart of Boko 
horrors
For they take the path of 
thunder 
Neglecting the fears of Black 
Orpheus

Ken Saro wiwa, you suffered 
great injustice
Your nonviolent campaign is 
needed
Even tho your soul seeks 
revenge 
Draft a journal to Boko 
leaders 
We can't handle bloodshed no 
more 

Dennis Osadebay, your power 
of attorney
Can still be exhumed 
The fear of biased party 
politics
Is causing massive blasts 
Of insignificant reasons
Write to your party movement
 
Uche Nduka, write to the 
poets in their youth
To anger the leaders with the 
Bremen poems 
They deprive the flower child 
of a second act 
If only the night Eel on reef 
Heart's field and Ijele 
Will send belltime letters  

Wole Soyinka, criticize 
Nigerian dictators some more 
They come in military disguise 
of misshapen silhouette  
Causing chaos of well-seeming 
forms  
Wright a play of not the Lion 
and the jewel 
Nor The trials of brother Jero 
But of The Swamp dwellers 
And the Horrors of Boko.

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2014

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Pot Belly Men

Pot belly men of our great 
Nation 
Ambassadors of poverty
Looters of National treasures
Breeding nest of corruption
Masters of lies and deceit

See what you have done 
See what you have turns our 
daughters into 
Making them slaves to vanity
As they make you embrace 
insanity

They feast on your pot belly 
As you call your wives at home 
With same lie night after night 

Your daughter with another pot 
belly man 
She is also feasting on his pot 
belly 
While he switch off his phone 
Lest his wife calls him from 
home 

Pot belly men flaunts 
themselves
In their expensive agbada' 
Cruising in range rovers 
Looking for young girls to de 
flower
With a trunk full of "Ghana must 
go"

Our daughters lost in the trance 
of naira 
They give away their glory so 
easy 
Like a child munching on akara 
For an end reward of naira 

Our sons stands no chance 
They hardly have enough to fill 
their belly 
they till soils and drill crude oils 
Their sweats making their 
pockets swell 
In a bid to marry 
The pot belly pleasures...

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2014

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The Messenger

Go mbazu, forerunner of the gods
And tell Ukpala of its lies 
Men can harm thee not 
For death fears thee the most 

Go tell Okosisi, king of Ukpala 
Of its treachery
That his kingdom breeds iniquity
And if he replies
Give him madness

Go tell Nweke, Queen of Ukpala 
Of her dirty ways 
Her soul stinks of adultery
If she replies
Give her agony  

Go tell Ude, chief priest of Ukpala 
Of his greed 
That his way are abominable
If he replies
Give him death 

Go tell the council of elders 
Of their persistent injustice
That their heart harbours corruption
If they give you reply 
Give them misery

Go tell the maidens
Of their lost glory
That their acts are abominable
If they give you reply 
Give them barreness

To the sons of Ukpala
Say to them 
Their cowardice mocks Ukpala  
For if they reply thee
Mock them with defeat

And to the children of Ukpala
Say this to them 
Forsake the ways of thy fathers 
For doom is its consequences
If they reply thee not 
Spare them life.

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2014

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No Escape

She's Loved, 
 She feels no love, not even herself,
 She's alone, But She's with Family, 
she wants to end it all,
She wants to be free,
 Free from her existence, 

She slit her wrist,
Feeling the cold dampness on her palm,
 Freedom is all she wants, a
Morphines running in her blood stream,

She can't,
She can't end it all, 
She can't free herself from her meaningless existence..

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2013



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Fear

Darkness growing over the horizon 
 i looked over to the other side
 to find my way as i embrace dark fogs 

The cold damp leaves soiling my feet
 Twigs cracking as i walk pass
 owls singing their horrifying melody
 Sending chill through my spins
Wolves howling across the mountains 
Looking for preys to devour

 The tidal wave clapping on the ocean walls 
 Inhaling the freshness of the ocean
 Filling my lungs with it
The ocean calling onto me 

Sinking gradually into the depth of the ocean 
 Feeling my belly with ocean water 
waiting for my end to come.

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2013

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Nightmare

Holding her is all i desire 

Kissing her, i crave for 

loving her, my heart aches for 

Protecting her, with all my might 

For her course, i lay down my life 

men i will slay if she desires 

Perfection shes made for

my heart aches at her sight 

she adorn the sun with her essence 

The ocean trembles at her presence 

Her touches brings agony 

Agony to a weary man

She illuminates darkness 

her nature is unique  

love is all i got to offer

My being, i give it up for her

But i only see her when i fall asleep 

In my sleep, shes all i dream of 

my NIGHTMARE, i call her...

Copyright © Austine Parka | Year Posted 2013


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