MAN RACING AGAINST TIME?
Many lies told
Many lines unprobed
Who can wrestle with his creator
Who can battle the supreme
No one can do the impossible
Time was the beginning
Time is the end
Time is now
How can you race with your beginning
Struggle to beat your ending
Time is the umpire
No player contest with the whistle man
Nobody races against Time
It was a lie told to us
As sold to our ancestors
No man races against time
No man.
Oloye Olufemi
? 2023
Categories:
unprobed, deep, devotion, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse
We are the Masters of the Seas:
Beyond the past, beyond the globe,
Beyond the glory, the disease,
Here lies our Way, intent, unprobed!
Who told you once – you ain’t the prince,
You ain’t the lord, ain’t your life Master?
And ain’t you ever felt that breeze
Forgiving previous disaster?
Yes, who you are and what you’re worth,
You are to blame and to admire!
Responsible for every loss,
For every life that’s put on fire!
And yet you are, to tell the truth,
That only one who’s been addicted
To fight for life - not rest in peace!
Your Destiny’s such way depicted…
Categories:
unprobed, adventure, encouraging, hero, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Another sleepless night
and the shadows even refuse to talk to me anymore.
When shadows lose interest, what's left?
Just the sound of my own voice
echoing off these four walls.
My ears have blocked me from my own thoughts.
Nothing but numbness.
I recoil to that faraway cave,
where I would hide as a child;
When the monsters would come and play.
I feel emptied of all existence
to an unprobed realm of spiraling blackness;
where it's hard to breathe in a new reality.
My mind crashes and screams for release
but there is no rescue here.
My soul snuggles up to my last heartbeat,
as the Boatman approaches, my candle goes out;
I am shut down
Categories:
unprobed, angst, me,
Form: Free verse
Our leaders being Neros
scamsters are our heroes
Even judiciary is not above reproach
For justice whom shall we approach
Dishonesty has become national character
Not a day passes without
gherao boycott or stir
Where are ye patriots who fought for freedom
Look! we have made mockery of your martyrdom
Every year new scandals come to light
Then unprobed recede out of sight
Poverty debts and slums multiply
Yet ministers short distances in copters fly
What is our national symbol asked someone
I told him: It is dear Howitzer gun
Categories:
unprobed, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Heroic Couplet