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Mr Green

He built a hut
In a tract of a wild country
Not too far from my neighborhood
I visited him pretty often
To gather crumbs of his wisdom
He was my big pal
His name was Mr Green
A wise sage of stoic antiquity
One in a million
He called me son

I loved a girl in my hood
Her name was Daniella
But I was afraid of expression
Afraid of being rejected
And once a day I visited Mr Green
He told me a tale
About two clashing enemies
In the time of old
And all the pities their enmity distilled
He ended his tale with his favourite words
"The folly of love is better
Than the seeming wisdom of war"

I told him about Daniella
And the fear that lurked
He smiled and said to me
"Fear is not real
It is but a mere illusion
Commit totally therefore
Those illusions to the flames
Move yonder and advance
The younger flame that has been sparked"

I had never doubted Mr Green
The whole night kept me awake
As I besought the muse to sharpen my flow
On the morrow
I stormed upon Daniella
In the meadow
Enjoying the grandeur of nature
And I simply said to her
"There is harmony and musical solemnity
When musicians play their instruments
And each person follows the staff of the notes
Let our hearts therefore fall into tune
Just like the musical harmony"

She jumped and hugged me tight
In a complete delight
And I felt like flying with her
In the wings of the wind

Big thanks to Mr Green

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How I Became a Street Boy

Can a lioness tender care
Cease towards the child she bare
Yes she may be forgetful
Yet I shall never forget you
Words of mom on that fateful day
As she lay there in the most pitiable way
She drew me closer and held me tight
And I knew something didn’t feel alright
She said she had earned her wings to fly
But I didn’t understand until she said goodbye
I looked and saw the cease of her breath
As her eyelids closed in death
I called mama! mama! but no answer
Alas! she has been taken by the cancer

I gripped her motionless body as I wailed
And my tears on her body trailed
I watched those around shed their tears
As they held me trying to show their cares
They uttered their words of sorrow
Asking what will be of my tomorrow
For I grew up not knowing my dad
Apparently he died when his health got bad
My only aunt, Mary was a policewoman
With a great career but in her life, no man
She came to the house the next day
Looking all fabulous and gay
And with gentle words rolling out her lips
She promised to give me a life of bliss

Few weeks later, I was at aunty Mary’s
It was a fine house decked with roses
I felt happy and felt at home
For in the street,I didn’t have to roam
She called me into her room that silent night
Said she will give something to make me feel
alright
Sooner than I knew it, clothes were disappearing
And I stood speechless and shocked staring
She was totally naked and so was I
I felt awkward and couldn’t look her eye
She carried me into her spacious bed
And I felt wild confusions rioting my head
She stroked me with her hand
Yet I couldn’t understand
Drew me closer to the center of her femininity
And the realisation of the drama came to me in
clarity
Despite the pains,she said I will feel alright
Though eight years old,I knew it wasn’t right

I stood frozen that night and couldn’t think
For she stole my innocence in the blink
My whole body was beyond broken
For I trod a path I have never taken
The blue light was there yet I felt blind
All I could feel was bleakness in my mind
She smiled and laughed while I frowned
Giving me promises of driving me downtown
She pleaded and begged that I shouldn’t tell
That she is simply making me feel well

The next day she called me again
And I went dreading another pain
She lay on the bed with no cloth
And on thee table was a bottle of hot
She ordered me to come on top
Ignoring my plea as I begged her to stop
She kept her hand over my mouth
Though in pain was I but I couldn’t shout
Her plea for me no to tell became an injunction
That I had to obey if I didn’t want eviction
She murdered my innocence and stole my pride
Inflicting my heart with scars in all side

Whenever I heard the sound of her car
I developed a fresh hurting scar
She would greet me with a warm smile
But all I saw in her smile was vile
I gave her back a broken smile and false laughter
Knowing what would happen a little later
She would enter her room to have a shower
After dinner,she would call me into her bower
Gave me fruits and lots of cookies
Telling me to get set for another rounds of
nookies
I would want to say NO but no words came
I felt anger, bitterness and a deep shame
I felt chained and I needed to be free
Even those cookies tasted like poisons to me

In school,her torment made me hide in shame
Couldn’t even join other kids to play any game
They felt I was an unusual child
Because I was always trying to hide
Academically, I performed badly
Socially, I flopped hopelessly
Oh! the trauma was too much to bear
For I lived every minute in fear
And as each day grew gradually to dusk
I dreaded, knowing the imminent task

Four years went by with this constant rape
And I thought it was time for me to escape
Yes I was ready to roam the street
And face whatever came out of it
My heart was already hardened
I decided to leave her deeply burdened
As I planned of what to do to this heartless aunty
That would cause her a great anxiety
An idea took root in my mind
Of what befitted a being of her kind
She has stolen the joy of my childhood
“Steal then also her livelihood"

As usual,she called me into her bower one night
And there,was her stainless pistol in sight
I walked in and sat on the mattress
While she was in the bathroom trying to undress
I quickly made for her pistol
Yes I had gathered enough mettle
And as soon as she opened the bathroom door
I pulled the trigger and she lay there dead on the
floor
Yes I did take her life
For she had given me so much strife
And at such young age,I became a killer
For she turned a beast who was supposed to be
my pillar
I ran out of the gate that horrible night
Into the dark lonely street with no one in sight
And that’s how I became a street boy

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One Friday Evening

Becoming an on-air personality has always been
my dream
So I studied Mass Com in the University of
Kareem
I worked for a radio station, TREASURE fm
Where I anchored a show daily from 6-8pm
The show was called Evening Whispers
It was a show that had many listeners

I was more or less a heart doctor
Or should I say a relationship Counsellor
Two years in a row,I have won the City's award
And have represented my station many times in
abroad
So you see, I had a blooming career
For nothing seemed to be my barrier

Cassandra and I were married newly
She was all that there IS to life for me
We had met in a colleague's birthday party
Where the show was stolen by her beauty
She carried this irresistible and unspeakable
charm
And her words to my soul was a soothing balm

"She may not be whom you think she is"
A big friend of mine had teased
"She was the missing rib from my side
Am a love doctor, there is no secret she can hide"
I countered, trying to defend my love
Unaware that the seeming straight road was
actually a curve

One Friday Evening as I was getting ready for my
show
Our technical unit had a fault,so I had to go
I felt bad for my fans but excited for my wife
We were going to make the greatest love of my
life
It was one of the coldest day of the season
And I got a video that would usher us into
erotism

I slowly turned the knob as I got home to surprise
her
But I saw something that left me with a haunting scar
There she was, utterly nude with the boy next
door
Doing the unthinkable on the floor
My whole world crushed inside of me
As I walked out into the balcony

Cassandra was indeed not whom I thought she was
I thought of where we had met and I cursed
It was a case of all that glitters not being gold
Telling me beauty has another story always
untold
I treated lots of heart but I could not treat mine
Until many moons later when NANCY sent me a
line

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Take This Message To Clara

Under the African blue skies
I saw this beauty with a sparkling eyes
Full of charms and majestic aura
They said her name was Clara
But I was a very poor cowboy
Who could not afford even a baby’s toy
How could I tell her the feeling in my heart
Since we both lived a world far apart
But I could with a full courage
For I really have come of age

I walked up to her with my cowboy’s hat
And told her of the love in my heart
She looked at my head and found no crown
She asked of the car to cruise her downtown
I stood speechless for I had none of those things
Obviously she belongs to the rich and the kings
But I have a garden full of roses
Where she could please me with myriad poses
She said “go and never come my way”
But her smiles looked easy and gay

I went home dejected on that silent night
Wondering at my rejection in such an extreme
height
I went and lay on the long grass
Feeling so bad about my social class
But like proton, I remained positive
Even though she called me primitive
All of a sudden I heard the call of love
Echoing from the sky far above
Whatever will be will be
It was a message that dropped in me

Few moons later,I met another cherubim
Who looked like my crush in my favourite film
And in a short while,there was a whisper of love
And as if that wasn’t enough
She made me a promise so grand
That she will forever cling to my hand
Wow! She awoken the glory of my blossom
Brought a company to a heart like mine so
lonesome
Like sun streaming forth from the sky
I now shine in love and always feel high

Please take this message to Clara
Tell her am now in love with a girl called Flora
Full of unmatchable and unspeakable aura
With a heart so large and even purer
Tell Clara that her beauty is not so rich
For she isn’t the only pebble in the beach
This I needed to let her know
So that her pride would cease to glow
That cowboy is now rich in fortunes and in love
With a magnificent being sent from above

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Letter To Aisha

Do not think that I am far gone
Tarry for in no time, I shall return
So let my face always appear and make you
proud
Like a sun breaking through a drifting cloud
Meanwhile each day, I shall write you a line
For until we part no more, you will be mine
At every point that our hearts meet
The earth always deck her flowers at our feet
And as an ocean’s surging praise in time of
peace
My lips will always pour out strains of praises in
bliss
So disperse those gloomy doubts that may arise
Discard those scales that may becloud you eyes
Although I left your bosom as a Jack
With only beads contained in a handy sack
I will come back to you as a king
And put on to your finger a golden ring
By the time the spring rains will come
There shall be a sound of our wedding drum
We shall proceed to the field beyond the rising
flood
And in ecstasy, our hearts will synch in one
accord
Blue will be the sky by day
With a crystalline radiance all the way
The grasses will stand dre

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I Have Failed One Life's Test

Granny and I lived in Bemeyills
A land beyond the hills
On a beautiful thatchy
In a tract of a wild country
She wanted me a life of bliss
So she called me and told me all these

She said event is a great lesson
It tells us whom and what to jettison
That, life most time TEST us
Making things true appear false
And things wrong appear right
Maybe because of their radiant light

She said life has many wonders untold
But all that glitters is not gold
That, many have failed life’s TEST
So I should try and give it my best
And never fall life’s pathetic victim
Instead,be among the victorious team

Many years later,I left the country
Having come of age,I wanted to be free
I had deep longing to taste pleasure
To an extent beyond measure
And those Granny words,that in my heart cleft
Got pressured and they all left

There, I met a cherubim
With such beauty that I ‘ve never seen
Beholding her arresting complexion
My heart beat skipped without caution
For the smooth perfection of her prow
Was like the blossoms of a snow

Of course, I stood still for a moment
Watching her fine hairs that needed no
enhancement
Observing her white sparkling eyes
My excitement couldn’t help but rise
And seeing those enchanting pearly teeth
Caused a jittery to my feet

I moved and touched her shoulder
Asking if her love was pledged to another
She smiled and said her name
A smile that put even the sun to shame
For me,it was love at first sight
It saved time,so I felt alright

I quickly demanded for a kiss
And she promised me “a moment of bliss”
She again called it a “night of grace”
And I tried hard to unravel that phrase
But I just followed where she led
And in a while,we lay warm on the bed

Yea,we found ourselves in mutual ecstasy
We were in reality,no more in fantasy
I laid that night with Amanda
But woke with a note that tore my heart asunder
For she departed to a place unknown
Abandoning me in the lurch all alone

Deep anxiety rioted my head
As I looked at what the note read
“I gave all my heart to him
But he made me a victim
He gave me HIV/AIDS
So am sorry to say we are now in same case”

I felt the wind blowing and the waters raging
Tears from my eyes were raining
Oh! the glory of my prime has flown
For life has indeed made me a clown
To life’s ill side,I have been made a jest
For I have failed one of life’s TEST

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This Dark Night of Life

The world has gone hostile
The land no more fertile
Women getting all sterile
And all men going senile

The sun now shines with cruelty
The always excited birds are all now in sobriety
The moon itself glows with hostility
All nature has indeed lost their hospitality

The dog has bitten its owner
That celebrity is now a loner
That man who feared weapon is now a gunner
And the once dauntless soldier now a runner

It seems all things have fallen apart
That God has called his glory to depart
Never again to men's life impart
Or to show men anything good in full or in part

But to whom shall we run
If not to settle under his (God) pinion
Though on this dark night of life we mourn
I do hope for that joy in the break of dawn