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Beauty of Irony

when i look at you;a beautiful soul.
when i look at you i see fireworks
when i look at you i hear songs
when i look at your i hear moans

when i look at i hear angels
when i look at you i hear laughters
when i look at you i flip new 
chapters
when i look at you i see idle 
chatters

when i look at you i hear hausa 
music
when i look at you i see spanish 
music
when i look at you i hear partys 
peaking
when i look at you i think 
lovemaking
when i look at you i hear kids 
sooshing
when i look at you i see us ageing
when i look at you i get mixed 
feelings

when i look at and you look at me,
i know we are meant to be.
when i look at you and you look at 
me
i know we will never be.
when i look at you and you look at 
him
i see the beauty of irony.
most of all i learn a lesson;not to 
look at someone that looks at 
someone else.

Copyright © Alumbugu Akolo | Year Posted 2013



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Busy Men,Idle Sun

busy men,scatter like travel of 
pain,
through every road;every nerve 
end.
they push me;push through my 
rays.
walk pass me,afraid to lend a gaze,
alone,frustrated,pouring out my 
heat waves,
i watch as they forget i need them.

busy men,walking back-straight 
back,
through same roads-same or 
different cars
glad that i am leaving,to natures' 
park.
they walk pass me without regards,
talk less about on weather forcast.

heading home,alone.
someone is an island after all.
will somebody be kind enough,
to sit and watch?
busy men will never see the 
beauty of a sunrise.
busy men-will never see the 
beauty of anything in life.

Copyright © Alumbugu Akolo | Year Posted 2013

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While Leaving Wake Me

go around my 
group of 
seedlings,
go about my 
lush of green 
leaves.
do not thread 
on my efforts 
please,
do not rain 
upon my 
drying leaves.
lend a tap on 
the back to me,
lend a 
compliment,try 
to please.
my plants 
wither 
because no 
one sees.

pick a tour 
group or a 
guide,
take the dying 
soil for a ride.
see the 
cassava trees,i 
swell with 
pride.
try a produce; 
invest in time.
time!
thats what a 
lazy farmer 
buys
thats all his 
imaginations 
provide.

though the 
farm is barren 
now
though its 
fallow for a 
year now
time will 
provide all we 
need,
time will put 
the lazy 
farmer out of 
misery
he sits;hand to 
cheeks
he sits,he falls 
to sleep.
that is all he 
did these 
passed season.
thats all he 
reaped for 
some reason.

go around my 
ripening reaps,
taste a 
few,take a few.
while leaving 
wake me
while leaving 
wake me.

Copyright © Alumbugu Akolo | Year Posted 2013


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