Time

I sat on the seashore,

Admiring the beauty of the sea.

As I looked on, the trees danced rhythmically to the beat of the wind.

The leaves fell from the tree in seeming majestic fashion,

And the sea roared like a lion.

It was such a beautiful sight,

I should stay on for long I thought, away from my real world full of pain and unhappiness,

And keep on enjoying this beautiful view.

And suddenly I started reflecting,

On how my life had developed.

And as I reflected, I exclaimed

Oh how fast time flies!.

It only felt like I was suckling my mother’s breast yesterday,

And now here I am, a full grown man.

It only felt like I was a child few hours ago, full of confidence and carefree of what tomorrow brings,

And now here I am, short of confidence as I wonder if I am capable of facing tomorrow.

It only felt like i joined the university community few minutes ago,

assured of a blessed future, gingered by the hope of becoming great.

At a point I took a nap,

Brainwashed by the tidings brought to me by procrastination,

I lost my vision and mission.

Blinded by the euphoria of freedom,

I squandered my time and wasted my today,

Not realizing that the future had been dealt a heavy blow.

Indeed I graduated from the university,

 but now my certificate only seems like a mere decoration, only useful to be trampled upon.

Indeed time runs fast,

Like a messenger hastening his steps to deliver a message.

Indeed time waits for no man,

Like a bullet released from a smoking gun, it moves with such unstoppable force and intent.

Knowing this it is best advised to utilize time well.

Indeed we know not what tomorrow brings, but we can work with the here and now and make our time worthwhile, to ascertain a future full of hope.

Make your time count, your future and everything around you depends on it.

BY AYINDE JOSEPH

Lost in the trance

Lost in the trance or is it wonder .

Where am I, I start to ponder

Am I in heaven??  Where’s my mother??..then a voice came and said shut up and don’t bother

I opened my eyes to a land of order. Peace reigned and trouble went asunder

The feeling of love would always transcend little did I know that it would soon end. The clouds darkened and the walls started to bend.

Gunshots everywhere lord when would this end. Mother and child running with hands on their heads.

I saw war with my own eyes bloodshed everywhere tears in my eyes. Then some thoughts came in and I started to realize

If this thing doesn’t end it would lead to my demise then I went on my knees and closed my eyes I woke up to the slight bright reading light from last night though it was very dim.i realized it was all a dream

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Woman

So she’s praised to be one of the guys

You tell her lies staring dead into her eyes

Them fellas play this game, it’s called who can get in her panties first

She’s not no prize

You can’t put a price on her size

Oh so she’s beautiful now?

She’s your heaven on earth, right?

Suddenly you think her life is your right?

Bullshit

Oh he’s a fag, pussy, bitch now

Notice how they’re all related to her

They say ignorance is bliss

But It’s really fucked up when the ultimate insult is being called a female

You expect her to succumb when you set the standard for her growth

You say her exposure be doing the most

You think she’s a toy, boy it just shows you’re rather coy

Tipping her crown to the side, I bet you thought it’d fall

So you stripped away her glory you threw it out with so much gory

She’s not a game

You play for fame

Oh what a shame

You think you run this, you think you own things

She picked her pride with so much strive

You think she wouldn’t rise???

You should’ve seen the brothers faces when she fell too her knees crying

Oh yeah they really tried

Plot twist

She got up,

Stood her ground,

Took her crown,

She wasn’t going to lose her rights cause of some clowns

The fellas got scared cause they had done their best

They were tired, masculinity and ego had failed

She laid a foundation from the dirt she was laid on

She laughed, “did you really think I wasn’t going to carry on?”

He saw her, a rebellion

But she wasn’t looking for war cause she had already won

“I am your mother, I am your helper, I am your comforter

God didn’t make me as a threat,

I wouldn’t be the reason you’d take your last breath

Even though you only see me as a hoe or your foe

I will still try to take away your woes.

If you’d let me.”

She is Woman

You still don’t get it ?

It means she’s a better man than the men will ever be.

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Pain’s pain

Can you hear it?

Sin’s drugging symphony

Orchestrated by things beyond the evils the mind can’t conceive

As the shadows grow lengthy

The signs of increasing unknown

The dead shall dance

Indeed things withered shall bloom in you

You are the last hope of these demons

Little is it known that before pain can be healed it must have been felt by the healer

In deep dark places

Who shall feel the pain of these demons abandoned

Condemned, blamed for the mishaps born of men’s stupidity

What if pain felt pain and thus inflicted it to reduce the immortal mortality in it

What is pain felt by pain for the cause of evils resting in pieces

Who shall advocate sin?

Who Shall accept the darkness accused of possessing only and all evils

I, whose wings unfold into black

Curses, screams, tears, blood

Ashes to ashes

Dust to the banished

Who will come and not shy away?

Who will be my solace?

Who shall reconcile me from evils affiliate?

Who shall feel the pain of my pain?

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Reaper of my emotions

I met him in the midst of a storm

I was lost in a kaleidoscope of pain

Cloaked by anger, sarcasm, words easily taken at lips worth

He saw through the feign

He whispered my name

He reached for my hand

All the while I thought

“He’s an emotional one night stand”

Just this once I’ll let go

I’ll pour the acids of my soul on someone else

I’ll burn him with my pain

I’ll show him all my demons

He’ll leave by dawns eve

He won’t remember my name

With hatred in his heart for the human I’m not

But I didn’t care

There was a fire burning me down

Reducing me to a pile of sad ashes

Tying me up with deaths sashes

I had to do this for myself

But alas, my expectations were ahead of me

High on heaven’s shelf

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He listened.

He hugged me mentally in the hurricane

He calmed my insanity and brought me rest

Oh that sweet epiphany!

He took my sins and made them jewels

He made me beautiful

He saw my demons and tamed them in mere words

Woe. What would have been my lot if he did not salvage my remains

He was the darkness sent to show me light

He’s a devil who saved me

An irony

A contradiction

A god

That one night stand is now my emotional stronghold

He who I thought to scar healed my scars

Tell me.

Is this not the work of a genius

Who am I to leave my peace

He who has calmed the storm of my heart

Who has reaped my emotions

And shown me the beauty behind my masquerade

 I love him.

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Kiss me like fire

This is beyond physical

I could’ve fallen for you with my eyes closed

Your looks matter not

I’m in love with your soul

And for the demons in my dark

It was calm at first vibe

You’re the beautiful night

They want to disobey me and spill themselves into you

Welcome them in a soul of purple

And a love so dark it shames blood and black

The attraction.

Undeniable and palpable

Hitting us from the unknown

I immediately had to know

Would chocolate taste like his lips?

Beautiful evils and exquisite sin

Would you lead my body and soul into the night of your world?

Would he hold me in my nightmares?

That first kiss was fire

Flames, burning deep

Scarring, charring

Carving a hole straight through

Headed for my core

The soul of the damned

All in a single kiss

Every other thing is irrelevant

And if he belongs in me

And loves me

I’ll hold him

And won’t let go

I’ll give myself

Feel his soul with mine

Wrap myself around him

I might be clingy, jealous even

But I won’t let up

Because now he’s mine

And I’ll protect this love with everything

My happiness, my safe

Because my heart has no brain so my love is thoughtless

And my brain has no heart so my rational is heartless

But I need you

Let me know you’ll always love me

Let me know in a kiss.

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Dying Soul

My last words to the dying soul

You were great,

you fought and survived

You hide thorns And bruises till your going-days

you’ve been a warrior fighting the battles of life,

You endured the strives,

Survived the fairytales of doom,

Your path was never understood,

Yet you clinged on to believes of what was meant-to-be

As You drip out slowly from the grasp of life,

Taking time to enjoy your last-days,

Let tears have no place in your heart,

Know it in you,

That you were great,

An icon of Great respect and honor,

In this hours, :-

My mind running away to you,

Trying to comfort you with my pen and papers,

And every page of the left book,

Gripping you over the lonely air,

Breathing words of poetry into you,

Dear dying soul,

I bid you my last farewell

On your endless trip to the beyond and after.

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The Roaring Flame

And my father, the man of no titles

Love for music

And easy way outs

He seemed to dance to the music

And played the flute

You know the effect of drinking too much

Things fall apart on the bravest of souls

Moonlight nights fall in place to the laughter’s of kids

Evil spirits are the origins of our land

Lazy sons ask questions to the oracle of the hills

The happy voices and flight of kites pleased them all

The start in life is all I need

Since I survived that year I survive the next

Lack of rain and harsh sunshine

Brings to me perspiration

It is difficult and most painful when I fail alone

His love of talk bitters me

But with age and sickness

It tries my patience beyond words

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Flawless

You are still the one I adore
There’s no one else I her feelings for
And you know my heart is an open door
So please dont shut yourself out anymore
I still love the way you talk
And especially the way you walk
How you sashay across the room without any flaw
Flawless she is, without mistakes
All the grace channeled is a lot to take in
Haters will hate but my heart shall not quake
For on the throne I sit with her as my queen
Flawless she is
Flawless she will be
Perfection with ease
And all will agree
Sit with me in silence
Gazing at the stars
Beauty beyond this Earth
She must be from Mars
Hot as the sun
No less, some more
Flawless she is
The one I adore

 

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Pain

Pain and agony is all I feel

When am not close to you

If today was to end 

Without you in my arms 

What is the point to life 

Whenever I look into your eyes 

Seeing the world revolve around you

Winning your heart every blessed day

Is all I feel like doing 

So whenever I say I love you

I mean every letter of it

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