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The Last Thing I Never Want To Hear

How did you go from IS to Was?
Is it just the tenses? 
Or just a statement?

Do you remember the name you gave me?
It was just after my birth
You aided to wash my infant head

You talked a lot about peace
You taught a lot about love
You loved a lot about God

Don't you think it's rude?
To leave without saying goodbye?
How did you go from IS to WAS?

Please don't make me say it
I just don't want to accept it
Because the last thing I never want to hear is
"Adieu"


To Patience Nwozichi Eluwa

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Delude

How can enough be enough
When lives are treated like garbage
Picked from the gutters
Thrown in the dump?

How can earth be at peace
When nature is disturbed
And air is defiled constantly
Yet superiors smile over it?

When a poor mother
Tries to save her child,
From the emitting of carbon
Burned by an industry close by,
She is deluded and placed low
Because superiors enjoy the advantages
Caused by the disadvantages.

Do not ask the masses to calm down
When their lives are endangered,
But you stand the chance to put an end
To this awful beginning of the end
That has placed mankind in disarray.

As they try to let it out
To fight in order to heal the world,
To restore stability,
They are rebuked by hierarchy,
‘Shhhh! Say no word’.

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Once Upon a Time

ONCE UPON A TIME

Once upon a time
I was told to listen,
Listen to voices on radio
Chanting praises at something,
Something called democracy
And it made me new.

As new as I was,
I tried getting a livelihood
But was asked to drop something.
Placing some papers on the desk
Made me a joke to the panel,
The generally accepted was the price.
Bribery was the right term
But the vice has become a custom
And reduced the essence of true value,
Where wrong is right and right is wrong.
It’s a law to abide,
Even education could not help.

In the book of freedom
Chapter if it is applicable
Verses why is there no freedom of expression
To how the people are treated,
Tells the insincere truth
Of the world’s chapter.
They asked them to vote
With lot of Promises Attached,
After election they are demons
Feasting on the same people,
The reasons they became leaders.

Many a people who strive for equality
But are faced with iniquities
By those who are full of insecurities.
Now there is obscurity,
Pacing from one end to the other.

Chapter by Chapter reads
The constitution that favours’ very few,
Moment by moment takes
The right of individuals,
Making earth too hot for them,
Making life too tough for them.

I say a big hello to the new dawn
Where I can’t say a word
But forced to accept the odds,
Because expression has been exiled
And the trophy for tomorrow
Has been made a play thing.

When I go to mother,
I will ask what it means to be a youth.

When I go to father,
I will ask what it takes to be honest.

When I go to my Professor,
I will ask what a degree is all about.

For now I would conclude
That the greatest weapon,
Isn’t just Education,
Isn’t just wealth,
Isn’t just influence,
But the voice to speak.

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I'M An African Woman

I'm a woman 
                   Yes, an African woman 
                   Who knows her wants 
                   And respects her deeds 

                   I'm taught to respect 
                   But I also deserve respect 
                   To maintain my essence 
                   And be the best me 

                   I'm a reason 
                   For multiplication 
                   No woman 
                   No generation 
          
                  I make meals
                 To make it real 
                  If they think it's a deal
                  Then I do have a choice 

                  I'm born and will reborn 
                  It's a beautiful thing 
                  It's not  just a story
                  Its my glory 
           
                 Call me a woman 
                 An adorable woman
                An African adorable woman 
                A super African adorable woman!


#I'mawoman
#Anadorablewoman
#happyinternationalwomen'sday

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My Love My All

How can I make you see what I feel
When love is blind
When I push hard
You might think love is wicked


Here you are staring at me
The only thing i want is to deep my lips to yours
And our love will be unbreakable
Don’t call it magic, it’s a miracle.




N.B : This poem is my contribution to the world's longest poem, 2020, published by the Society of Young Nigerian Writers Anambra Chapter

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Apex Superior

Poem
Apex superior

       Indeed the creator is perfect
       Making men and women to be the heads
       Making children to be the bodies
       Generations, generations all know him

       He speaks wonderfully of his images
       And creatures
       Created all without selfish pride
       And made them to multiple 
       What a wonderful story
       How did he do that?

       Bees stinks all beautiful flowers
       It still produces nice honey
       Birds fly round the sky 
       But build their nest 
       No question can fetch 
       An answer to your deeds
       For it is gloriously
      A splendour.

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My Little Lily

As I watched the rain dance
   The lightning was busy
   taking accurate scores about the sounds 
   And the moves of thunder
   The grounds were fed to their taste
   But the earth was still hungry

   This is not the world eating too much
   This is life taking too much 
   I am being generous with my time
   May be I should stop trading with life
   That will be a call
   for funeral

    Don't give my daughter
    Too much sweet potato
    Make her know the sweet taste 
    of bitter leave
    So she will make do 
    with what is given to her
    when there is lack

    Tell her stories about me in uniform
    I am standing on the ground 
    where bullets and bombs are our guest
    If I die to live or I live to die
   Place my pictures on the walls of her room
    so that she won't forget my face
    
     I will never stop smiling 
     Even in the war front
     I didn't forget to drop a note before
     leaving
     Teach her how to read and write
     So she could read it when she's grown
     "To my little Lily, you remain the 
     Smile on my face "

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Twinkling

So we were told, Just like the Song we sang
"Twinkle twinkle little star"
But the stars are dim
So we keep wondering
And now, we are in a wander land

You have right to vote
and to be voted for
But I can't remember the last time
They used the count


While we raise our voices in secret
To speak our minds
The only voice we hear is
"This is Nigeria, get use to it"
I don't believe in this, but we are living in it

They make the rule and break
They take the treasures to hides
They make patrol with it
All we do is to wave at their vans and say 
"They are eating our money"

Even the one we thought
 would make the  Change
Wears his glasses to say
" They are now in chains"
They all come in like youths
With their ages reduced
Only to steal the goods
And forget the youths
Who are the pillars for real
If the pillar is weak
Then the house will fall!


#Bitterbutbetter

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1234 and 5

1234 & 5
                 These were the years we had
                 How can I forget those creamy
                 years?
                 Wining, dinning, dancing and 
                 chatting
                 These memories are stock inside 
                 of  me

       
                Please, let's travel back to what 
                we had
                May be, they weren't enough
                for me
                So I pray, we repeat history
                together!
                Can we talk more about
                Friday 23rd Of  July?
                Let's meet at the old store 
                like old time, 1800 hours!

               I'm there, but I can't see you
               It's dark out here and I can't 
               see Properly
               Please give me a sign
               that you are out there
               I want to see the beautiful blue gown
               You always wore during picnic.
         
               Someone just waved, 
               Are you the one?
               No it's not you.
               She's got blue eyes,
               You have brown eyes.
      
               Please where are you?
               I've been waiting
               Why am I so scared?
               I'm now at your house knocking,
               But no respond from anyone.
       
               Your neighbours are now starring 
               At me Like a total stranger 
                they haven't seen before,
                Just one was bold enough
                to tell me that You are no more
                But I didn't believe him
        
                This is the 3rd time 
                I am hearing this,
                But I refused to believe it's true
                even after visiting your new
                 home, grave.
      
                 Please come back, 
                 I wish to see
                 your face again
                 1234 & 5! 
                 Were the years we had.
      
       

In loving memory of
Esther Johnson
 RIP

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Wash My Trash

This was how it went down
                Just before my countdown
                I was sent in a lockdown
                And was seen as a downtrodden
                Caressed and scourged
                How did i get down?
   
                I wouldn't say
                But i would if i could
                I only slept for few seconds
                Just to wake in a fine bondage
                With someone feeding me with 
                Pottage 
                Of course the one i trusted
                
                So i told you about me
                And you hated me for being me
                Whose fault is it that i grow?
                While i called you "my person"
                You pressed the button
                 And the dragon was unleashed

                 Well not this time
                 Because i woke while you slept
                 Took the fire extinguisher
                 And defended myself from the fire
                 Poured by your dragon
                 It had burned me enough

                 I wasn't shock when i knew 
                Its you
                But i felt pity for your actions
                Because i defeated the nightmare
                Kindly read the letter i sent you
                "Dear Ex- trusted one,
                Do Wash My Trash"