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Best Poems Written by Saifullahi Sagir Yusuf

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World Poetry Day

I taught of it to be a day filled with ink and empty paper
Where ill paint myself rainbow 
Blank paper scribbled with ink should rain upon me
In appreciation for the proper use of poetry 
Today every word play will queue up in a cemetery 
Exhuming words buried in my archive
To march forth to me for their salary 
For they slaughtered for me every life alive.  

World Poetry Day |2020 
©Pensayf

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Covid-19 Doctor Says

Covid-19. Doctor Says:

If i was given an option
I'll prefer quarantine with my family 
Self isolation with no glimpse of light 
Until all of it is over, but 
You sit me here fighting a war I've no tactics for 
Swapped my TV screen with telescope 
Doff my necklace and trade it with stethoscope 
Undress me to dress me with scrub and a lab coat 
Don't i deserve better with your deaf ears 
I'm sending you too a war no one has trained you for
Let me fight your battle and you'll do the same for me 

Do me a favour 
Grant me your deaf dripping ears 
That choose to listen not without a gun 
The weight upon me is unbearable 
I've been sleepless stopping a fire 
But you seem to be a wanderer with a leaked gas station 
How do you like the impression 'Sorry, he didn't make it' 
Yeah, you understand that even without moving a lip 
How is it different from stay at home and be safe 
Avoid handshakes and engage yourself with sanitizer 
Isolate yourself and turn on your TV 
Watch me as i keep you posted 
Wouldn't you save a soul like I'm trying hard to 
We'll get through this together,  Yes we can.  

©Pensayf  |2020  
Covid-19

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Covid-19

I write this poem here where i lay 
Where sunshine is gone i could only see grey 
Where babbles of a monster who refuse a weapon was told 
Not a fairytale of a monster that'll hug you and stab you 
But a monster who'll sneeze a life out of you 
And cough a casket to what remains of you 
This monster will handshake your father 
After a heart felt eulogy at your funeral 
Then Hug your sister with sympathy 
And come back for condolence visit the next day 
To dine with your mother 
The bloody monster that pauses the earth to rotate 

Covid-19 held us captives for a crime we're not sure of 
I see the way it move at high speed in the air
By passing every blind checkpoints of humanity 
Getting itself merged with everything that we cherish 
Covid took away every kind gesture we demonstrate love 
And turned us ninjas running from our loved ones 
What kind of a world survive without love but massacre 
Ask Venus or Mars, and move to Pluto to testify 
What do you do with our isolated souls in coma 
Tell us what to do with them for we've buried enough

Our world is sick and we're its symptoms 
We can defeat this monster plague if only we adhere 
Let's work together to change the red headlines on our screens to green colour of victory and freedom. 
Sanitize your hands regularly and stay Home and safe 
In the end, I wish you a happy new year in advance 


Pensayf |2020 
Covid-19

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Uncuff the Silence

Days of letting ignorance slipping by 
Seducing my innocent silent soul 
All in the name of satisfaction 
Hitting my kind gesture of hospitality 
Eating up my futuristic nourishments 
Letting go of all the sarcastic ill says 
And leaving fingerprints on my double coloured face 
To weep with convulsive breath in silence                    
Are over. 
 I can't recall the last time i was laid, rather 
I Sit on my moist blanket enough to smear 
I didn't get in to imagine how it's done 
I am in to please and be pleased the pleasure 
To speak aloud and get life with no pressure  
Will the law hold me for shutting you forever 
For i endured enough to speak of no more 
You pushed me to uncuff my silence 
And put an end to the nightmare violence.
             
 
©Pensayf

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I Missed You

When i again heard your voice 
As it echoed through the strings in my ears 
I felt remorseful 
For it makes me wonder 
Was i not one of the lucky ones 
Who stripped out the street 
Dancing to the rhythm of 'I MISSED YOU' 

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Rapist

Hey you a rapist
Stop acting like an artist 
How do you feel making her scream
A ruthless satisfaction that turned her future to dream
Is it worth the violation
Cos of your selfish temptation
Look into her eyes before you made her lie
The horror in her eyes could make her die
To welcome suicide the next thing after.

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When I Die

When i die 
Come to my grave with your metaphors 
Carrying your pen close to your chest 
Let my grave serve your plane sheet
We're having a poetry duel on top my grave 
Seduce the soil to vomit my dead body 
For I've punchlines ready to get your ears dripping 
My iambic pentameter are arranged like graves in a cemetery 
Dug for me a grave of Alliteration 
And wrap me up with assonance 
A Coffin filled with roses of simile. 


©Pensay f|2020