Long Maltreated Poems

I lie - what wife mine’d been saying (our solidarity betraying)
Was in fact much more dismaying: “Why have you not come before?
From our lives you’ve been absented – with your coming, I’m contented.”
Would I could...

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I saddened to see the merciless scene daily,                           ...

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Through this road of sorrow i walk in pains
Looking up to the gathering cloud of 
Thunderous rain 
Downcast.
I was pushed to the world as an outcast.
My spirit groaned and wailed.
The soil hated my footsteps
Just as...

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Night had been short, I still was highly tired
for my bones had been badly maltreated
during exhausting marches. I admired
comrade John who recently had cheated
the Reaper in the north at Stamford Bridge.
I left the troops and...

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Silenced, oppressed, tamed voices,
Tears of the innocents, amidst crisis
Genocides, massacres, fear of ISIS
Supposed friends of the masses, turned enemies

In the web of ignorance entangled
Deprived, cheated, manipulated, strangled
Betrayed by the ones we trusted the most
Became prey...

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It's absurd to think we're surrounded by love
Children shed tears, malnourished and maltreated,
Men go to war, fight, and die without justice,
Women are dejected by society, bounded by clothes of a prostitute.

 It's absurd to think...

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They packed us in ships and boats.
Sardines have more space in their cans as compared to us,
Low ventilation, no water, little food,
Out of our land of abundance, land of riches, land of gold, 
We sailed...

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What is she singing off, war or peace?
What is she humming of, that made the 
Grasses howled and the trees bent so low touching the ground?
Why would she disturb the peace of the forest
In such...

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Polithieves
On my behalf, a conclave of crows
Then, my Imminent appointment follows
Orchastrated triumph at the polls
Heralds me into Parliament of Owls
Perching in the FAAC Convocation
In control of State notes
I go swift lyk Abacha o. 

I have...

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The risk added excitement at the time, 
Admittedly a conscious decision was made to commit a crime.
Not yielding to ethical thought, 
Reluctant to believe that the transgression would be caught.
Self-assured I say ....weep not.

Disjoining, conviction,...

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I am an African boy 
I was carved from the chocolate melanin of the African soil
Tutored under the iroko tree by her grand sages
Baptised in the palm wine of Bomi hills
I am an African boy

I...

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Humming wind in a wider sky,
Turbulent perhaps catastrophic omen.
Thy born a curse of a forlorn life,
conceal nor run tranquil dim will bloom.

Stare those hands, repulsive, fracture
Mirrored of the vulnerable surrender.
Eyes that dehydrated from lengthy groan,
Mystified...

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Tatters, a tall funny clown
Is so famous in town
Always at a birthday party
Making kids extremely happy

But every trick or joke he makes
A disguise of his heartaches
Brought by his painful past
Grown at streets, feeling outcast

Parents died...

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These scars upon my wrist, fresh and wet,
Harsh actions displaying my love,
When sorry is the only word she cannot accept,
The only way I know is for me to feel the hurt,

Grown to feel discarded and...

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I am more than scarred flesh, 
and spirit.
I am more than the memories of his pugnacious tone,
and invective words.
I am more than my poor choices,
more than the flashbacks tearing at my soul. 
I am more...

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I am black
Dark black in my skin
I have never thought of changing it
Or improving it in their eyes-
They that named me as a beast
They that maltreated me with their minds
They that enslaved, and hated me...

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