Best Rootless Poems

Dedication:  To my mom, Pauline, who gave me the spark to write the Rootless Tree…..

A Rootless Tree

I have a tree that has no roots
Although it keeps growing in my yard
It stands big and tall and seems full of life
Yet is hollowed and somewhat scarred

My...

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Reflection of a past is lingering in mind
Illegal was religion and Gods were not so kind

So THEY demolished faith, put Churches upside down
and built a monster palace for a self-elected clown

As I kneel softly, slowly, on rootless Nature's beauty
To quench my thirst for Freedom hindsight's...

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Tufiakwa! That land suck!
I can't spend my next life here
Where women birth in joy and
Grasses sprout out not when cut.
Blood meets where two love lines are 
drawn, freedom, which is life, is ceased.
Has Nigerians a god at all?
Tell the gods  I can't come back...

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When I draw near you,
the streets make grinding sounds
as if we’re on an alien planet 
where we need huge machines to survive.

When I extend myself towards you,
the river emits queasy reek
as if I’m sailing through
a trench full of filth.

When I offer a drink to you,
cars...

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