Best Kidnappers Poems

He said he was on quite a spree.
I asked what his next crime would be.
   I meant it in jest,
   As...

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As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion...

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Bandits Boko Haram, notorious religious discriminators
Organized by the so called defenders of Allah,
Killing and maltreating of human beings and
Opposing to modern civilization...

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Her eyes leak and her mouth sobs
Her heart beats to the rhythm of the drums
Her leg shivers and her hands weak
On the actuality that a...

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Kick against indiscipline; they say,
But they kick against our income;
Kick against the youth's progress,
Kick against the future of our futures,
Kick against the heart that tend...

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Please, free Will
I heard he has been caught
He must be important
They talk about him alot

Are they asking for a ransom
If so, then who will pay
Who...

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My Story of Nigeria.... 
Inflation rate high 
Regionalism become noxious 
Life's expensive in the South
Ritualist in the East  
Fraudsters in the West 
Poverty in...

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*Author's note. I wrote this after watching the 2004 movie man on fire and wrote the feelings that I felt the main character Creasy had...

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Justice howls like barking dogs chasing down the hollow street
Justice flows the same way blood gushes down his trembling feet
Justice echoes blatantly through woodlands and...

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Gbomogbomo {The Kidnappers}
  
   Most rebellious Mangroves limbs aloof
   Straddle the leprous ocean swamp,
   Here, no room for...

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Waking up from my sleep. I step outside to check the
mail. I get a postcard of a missing child...the trend 
seems to never fail.

Julie was...

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i remember when
the sky was not tainted with smoke
when the oceans were clean
and the families told jokes

i remember when
there were no worries
there were no kidnappers
when...

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Several times I have glances of a,
Past life in a time that is,
So familiar to me, just not this one.
The one thing I always remember...

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Dreaming of the past,
Remembering, feeling, despair.
It is not the same as any family.
Wishing, hoping, praising.
To survive knowing All is Lost.
Nothing can be gained from the,
Fantasies...

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Torrents of thoughts torment me
Floodgate of distractions rack my soul
Avalanche of delusions 
Decapitate my mental faculty 
As I muse over the degeneration 
That has dogged...

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