Disappointed Poems

Be Disappointed

Why must I be disappointed?

Experience?
Just reals
For life?
Save yours
Do they enjoy your suffering?
Yes
Must be disappointed?
To live life over them

Disappointed

I always kept my dreams buried deep within,
Making sure hope was meticulously protected by skin
But you chiseled your way in 
and showed me what could have been 
So now all i'm left with, is having to take it on the chin

I was okay, you know?
With my incandescent glow.
Before you convinced me that no,
That is not

Mr Slim

He was a born teacher
From birth destined to be
You'd know by his phene.

In capitalist-run schools
He's taught for many years
Earning pennies for labour.

Three years a beneficiary
On stipend of N-power teach
The Program axed by corruption.

Then long a community teacher
He's rendering public service
For little pay out of community levy. 

He's adept; he got more papers 
Hoping for full

Alone

In this life of mine/
I always end up alone/
No matter what I do/
The outcome is the same/
Each day I strive to belong/
To fill the hole within me/
The feeling of something/
Other than alone/
Fast friends come and go/
Building a quick connection/
That was snatched away/
A whisper in my ear/
That this May be the day/
That I won't wake up

in a funk

wilting in the setting sun
dissolving deflating
undernourished underfed
neglected rejected

unknown
a mystery
if any degree of pampering
can bring me back to life



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

My Heart

i got a gift for you 
I hope you just love it 
I wrap it up in the finest paper 
the only way to truly show my love I admit 
I cant wait to give you the object 
this polished piece I want you to own 
and if I give it to you
 this significance

I Guess I Can Say That's Why I'm Disappointed Too

Funny how they're all disappointed
When you willingly written a novel so predictable
But still upset when you yourself are unpredictable,
We all treat the ones we love like they're so fictional.

A Visit To the Mortuary

A VISIT TO THE MORTUARY
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi

Sleeping on the slab
Surrounded by kith and kin
In a conference of blab
No thought of sin
All opinions in the bin
Naked like a newborn 
Helpless like a lost chick
No thought about the morrow 
Dreams and aspirations long forgotten 
Intoxicated by silence 
None to see her fears
The future wrapped in loneliness 
Like

Happiness

Happiness is left to be defined by your ownself
As you know yourself better than anyone else
As you're special and unique
Moreover one man's meat may be another man's  poison
But don't ask for too much 
So that you won't always be disappointed 
As the world is to be shared by all
It needs effort and patience to

Un-Holy and Disappointed

Tastes the same
this hole-less
"Happy Belly"
package of ten

But how can it
be called "Swiss"?!
Never buying this
un-holy cheese again!

Disappointed

the more you talk
the more i think of
what you're avoiding to discuss



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

- Disappointed -

Falsehood and lies do no one any benefit
                                           Every lie is a mask

Disappointed She Is Not American

Haley Mills played Pollyanna
We kids thought she was American
We claimed her as one of our own.
When she got older she began using her British accent.
And we could neither understand her
or love her half as much,
so disappointed were we.
Anyway, I was.
I do not even speak British English.

I Am Disappointed

I was given the chance
I pushed it away
With one glance

T'was offered into my mouth
I spit it out
As if out of disgust
But really, just out of doubt

I imagine that moment again
It seemed worth nothing at the time
But now is worth a billion yen
Worth the difference between
Life and death in a den

This emotion
Comes when things seem so

Disappointed

I should be watching Rafa
In my Rafa hat and shirt,
But Wimbledon is at a loss
Because Nadal is hurt.

He won the quarterfinals
With an injury to cause
Some pain when he was serving
And it seems that gave him pause.

So he withdrew and all his fans,
Of course including me,
Are disappointed, knowing
In the finals he won’t be.

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