WHAT MORE CAN I ASK FOR?

What more can I ask for?
this already built duplex with water non-stop
the faintly blue sky the roof over my head
my body mist never dry out for once
my hair lock more natural than the born dada
naturally endowed with slim bones
inside idumota market my mother works
under this ground my brother lives

inside these eyes lie frustration and uncertainties
father has been given a governmental burial
nights have passed with no meal to uncover this mouth
mama is so proud of her lifestyle
her look, the introduction of her entire life
imagine this life,what more can i ask for?

here nights are too short to dream a dream
here we celebrate the dead the living we mourn
here we don't talk,we shout
here we are never sick,we die
here we live in group and feel lonely
here we bear children we never fed
here what more can i ask for?

here we don't walk, we run, jump and fly
here we are sure of a thing......
government won't leave the rotten body
the body will lay somewhere ....
....somewhere when the soul is gone

when dreams become so hard to dream
..... hope too frail to lay hold of
...... love too weak to lean on
......life's too hard to bear
.... creator too busy to help
what more can i ask for?

this is the living we live here
the language we speak here
we are all insane here
everyone minding his madness
many words in my mouth
no ear to hear my words

everyone wearing their multi colour
suffering atires well fashioned out
many pregnant with his stories
but so sure of a befitting end
the great relief from a great pain
what more can i ask for?

THIS IA MY VILLAGE ...........

This is my Village ......
Bush and bamboo built huts
With the rich mud made houses
Stream sharing territory with people
Naked children happily running down the street
Clayed pot on the head to fetch water

Students bare footed to their only village school
Coming back to help papa tilt the ground
Super came in a big round calabash
Each cutting their various sizes to swallow
These children sitting round the evening Atupa
Only to hear tortoise stories and traditional
Beliefs and values

Mama continiously teaching them a lifetime morals
Planting in them the tree that withers never
This is exactly my village
Very tattered village with uncivilized inhabitants

.........my village now king's court
The home of the mighty and dignitaries
Its offsprings representing in all fields and countries
Smooth drive through roads with street lights
Ultra modern mansions and infrastructures

The centre of attractions for citizens and foreigners
Well equiped schools confusing mama to choose
This is my beloved village now
Where i was conceived,born and raised
Where i was humbly born with a wooden spoon
With boundless talents and intelligence

This village has brought forth great men
Successful and morally standard fellows
Submissive wives and loving husbands
Very examplary leaders and obedient followers
Ilara-mokin, ondo state, Nigeria

As small as you are, you have it all proudly
This is my root, my village
Ilara-mokin is the name
The proud home of superstars

i love my husband

The love that i know
the love that i see
the song that i hear
the one that i dance

the joy that i know
the peace that i have
The man that i know
the one that i love

the man that i need
the one that i have
this is my crown

this is my husband
this is my breath
i love my husband

Is your God this fair?

Look at me here almost at the end
Of this very wide ocean called year
How did i make it to this point?
This is surely not my power nor might
It could have been only one man
Favouring me in all ways this year
Paving me ways inside this deep wide ocean
Provided me with floater
Rendered the aqua harmful beings powerless
How He had done it for me is unknown
And for someone like me?
Guiding me through my sailing period
You are my God forever i promise
Lesser gods have failed over me
Manmaid gods wouldn't have helped me
My gold and diamonds wouldn't have matter
In this ocean many have passed out the breath
Some in the beginning,some middle
And even at the very end
Here iam using this hand that have failed many
To write my story and appreciation of my God
Thanking Him for an accomplished mission
For a gift so priceless and inestimable
A visit to any hospital will convince you
And even checking out the morgue will further assist
To estimate and value this gift of life
The gari that you drink is as a result of the mouth that you have
Yet that mouth won't say thank you !
But wallowing in complaints and excuses
As for me i have determined to thank God
For so long ago even in my grave
Because this is the only God i have come to know
The God that was with me in my mother's womb
With me when i was born
With me amidst of storms and turmoil
With me in my pains and pleasure
With me in danger and safety
With me when friends rejected and accepted me
With me when i lack and have abundance
With me when i fall and rise
With me when i started this year and ended it
This is my God,always with me in every condition
This is the only man i ever needed
All other man i could do without !

SYMPTOMS OF A FAILURE

SYMPTOMS OF A FAILURE

When he closes his eyes in sleep
He sees everything in clear images
He imagine great successes
He live a complete life
He has great ideas that can move toughest and highest mountains

He solves every problems
Waking up to face his stagnant life
Refusing to face it all for dreams to come alive
Living a life of fantasy and imagination
Wallowing in excuses and bitterness

Avoiding every risks of life
Forgetting that life itself is a big risk
These are symptoms of a failure
He simply live a life of no purpose

Yet he believes he has a dream
That someday will come real
And miserably waiting for an impossible change but
Only a step forward can set him free!! !

IF YOU MUST LOVE ME .......

IF YOU MUST LOVE ME

If you must love me
Let it be for nothing
Except for love’s sake only,
Do not say
“I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently

For a trick of thought that
Falls in well with mine
A sense of pleasant ease on such day”
For these things in themselves,
beloved, may be changed or change for thee

And love’s so right may go wrong
Neither love me for your own dear
Pity’s wiping my cheeks dry
A creature might forget to weep
After a long uninterrupted comfort

But love me for love’s sake
That ever more you may love me on
Through love’s eternity.

MY FOOLISH WISDOM

MY FOOLISH WISDOM

When i was young, i had alot of dreams
With possibilities in them all
Because i was young and believe in God alone
But as i grow older i became wise in my own eyes

I became logical and reasonable
I become a mathetician
I calculate the possibilities of all those dreams
I judged them with my brain

And felt some dreams are too big to come true
Yet i am only been foolish
Because i was born in impossibilities
Grown amidst of complications

And still living amidst of storms
Yet it never occured to me that my dream could survive
Just the way i survived
I become the God of my life

Playing the role of my creator
Thinking about what is possible and what is not
When how i come to be is not even known to me
But yet i exist

My problem is my foolish wisdom
Unknown to me my wisdom is worst than the foolishness
Of God that is, if He is ever in any way
But i use my discretion

My discretion is my doom
This is how a life that doesn't trust God looks
A life that doesnt have CHRIST always have CRISIS
HIS ways are beyond our discretion
All we need is to TRUST and OBEY

PROSTITUTION

PROSTITUTION
This once baby body of innocense
Glittering of oil mother rub
With a feel of softeness and tenderness
Bringing out truthful wishes
From young and old wrinkle lips
Causing heads turned and eyes unblink

Now the public trading store
The ground dumping of different
Dirts and fluid that stink
Now the body that lips rebuke
Saying it’s a curse to womanhood
Yet it’s only a survival means

A force to keep me moving
When empty space is all i see
Living me wit the dashed of my
formal hopes and dreams
this is a path i got into
thinking it’s an altenative to
my shattered hopes

but now can i stand this shame?
The hidden trade of no value
The trade that mama curse so much
The pain that can kill a mother
Yet the gossips won’t stop
how do i explain to womanhood?

What about dignity and morals?
Where have they gone to so soon?
Early days of my life
A torn shirt is a shame i fear
Now my penny i buy rags wit
Because this is a fashion that
Create awareness of my service

Shamelessness some call it
Sex hawking another rightful view
But PROSTITUTION is a name
That rings bell that even the deaf hear
Yet this survival have come to me
Fully accompanied with diseases
That i never knew nor heard before

Inside filled of me feelings of failure
Preventing me from walking tall
survival that i laid it all down for
unable to save me from my doom
only left me with regrets and shame
what a trade of total loss !

PROSTITUTION is the trade
I broke all the rules of decency
And earned all the ills of life !!!

Loved by an Hunter

LOVED BY AN HUNTER
Is this love you are giving or loss?
Whispering to me how empty you are?
If ever fly away without a trace?
That was only few weeks back
Gently touching my tender heart
With words so strong to ignore

Tender kisses where have you all gone?
Beach game and romance gone all
With the waves of the beach and wind
The endlessly seems fun have disappeared
This once light heart is too heavy now
Feeling heart could tear out this skin

Where is that love so soothing?
Where is the rythm that gets me dance?
Where is that face i always long to see?
Where is that touch always
Healing my stress away?
This was the thought i never imagine
But here now my fear is as a reality

This day i never wanted to see
But very clearly the day is break on me
With diverse thoughts shouting inside me
Will this dark sky ever be bright again?
My love has failed me woefully
I have been sailed to the middle
Of the ocean and dumped
Now survival goes only to the fittest

Here is my love seems so right
Where does this torn heart goes from here?
Who can help sow this heart torn?
I don’t even know if it still beat at all

Yeepa ! this love of mine
Have rendered me senseless
Love have lost me out so soon
Now it’s so clearly out spelt
I have been loved by an HUNTER

Loved by an Hunter

LOVED BY AN HUNTER
Is this love you are giving or loss?
Whispering to me how empty you are?
If ever fly away without a trace?
That was only few weeks back
Gently touching my tender heart
With words so strong to ignore
Tender kisses where have you all gone?
Beach game and romance gone all
With the waves of the beach and wind
The endlessly seems fun have disappeared
This once light heart is too heavy now
Feeling heart could tear out this skin
Where is that love so soothing?
Where is the rythm that gets me dance?
Where is that face i always long to see?
Where is that touch always
Healing my stress away?
This was the thought i never imagine
But here now my fear is as a reality
This day i never wanted to see
But very clearly the day is break on me
With diverse thoughts shouting inside me
Will this dark sky ever be bright again?
My love has failed me woefully
I have been sailed to the middle
Of the ocean and dumped
Now survival goes only to the fittest
Here is my love seems so right
Where does this torn heart goes from here?
Who can help sow this heart torn?
I don’t even know if it still beat at all
Yeepa ! this love of mine
Have rendered me senseless
Love have lost me out so soon
Now it’s so clearly out spelt
I have been loved by an HUNTER

I pledge this

I PLEDGE THIS
My life the greatest pledge i give
To give my best even on a bended knee
Saying the truth in the city of deception
Walking tall in all that i do
To boldly look the world in the eyes
To challenge wickedness with good deeds
To cry for the poor until i am heard
Of what use is my voice anyway if can’t
Scream aloud for the dumb?
These gold and diamonds speak for me
Only as long as i live
Only my deeds can outlast me
My offsprings i am not sure
If ever they will speak after me
But my attitudes i bet
Wind ! only sweat you can blow away
The smoke of my deeds never can you
These wicked and destructive footsteps
I pledge never to reckon with
Friends i rather lack than to befriend
These impostors wanting to take my words
Away and bring back me luxury
I pledge never tp dance to this
Rythym of shame
I rather die with my hands dry
Than to live with my hands blood soaked
I pledge to keep my conscience in order
I pledge to be the rich without a cry
Because i will never make them cry for
Possession of richies to come
I shall bend till i break if that
Is the price for my pledge
When they say
‘let us go deceive, kill and destroy
i pldge to follow them not
because when the whirlwind comes along
only the house of the wicked will crumble
thus, i pledge to uphold justice, decency
morality and hardwork only to quit
the moment this breath of mine
forever goes away
I take a bow
I take a pledge
With an unbreakable will
I pledge this

DEAD HERO

DEAD HERO
This hero have seen it all at once
The bad, the ugly, the sweet and the sour
This heart was once woven with joy
These arms motionless have embraced dignitaries
This mouth have given orders
Saying ‘go now and fight the war and
Make sure victory is brought’
This heart have known and felt love
Unbroken glory and a gathered radiance
Walking tall and leaving a mark
The years have given him kindness
The dawn, the sunset and colours of
The earth have favoured him
This one have seen movement and
Heard music, known slumber and waking
This one have been loved, gone friended
This one have touched flower and cheeks
This one have been passionately hug
And kissed all at once
This one have fought and won
Fallen and risen
This one have failed and passed
Starved and filled
This one have cried and laughed
This one have slept and dreamt
This one was born and born he
What a life of variety this one have lived
He has heard and was once heard
This breathless thing was once our
Leader and our king
To whom we bow and say
K A B I E S I, your royal highness !
Akinkanju okunrin !
What a brave man !
But here we are missing this man
Standing taller than this man
Greeting him without our chest
On the ground
Waving different shapes and sizes of hands
To this worldly known a conqueror
Whom death has eternally knocked down
This man have truly lived and died
Adieu !!! the hero of our time !

DEAR MAMA

Dear Mama !
Nine months of you and i
All alone in our own world
Pains of labour only you and i
Thereafter life becomes you and i

Sleepless nights of singing lullaby
Pampering me like a diamond
Mother ! for me, many nights
You went hunger strike
So that my belly will potrude
Sacrifices uncountable

Dear mama
Now i am grown with dreams and wishes
But still our bond remains unbroken
Each moment remembering this woman
Full of strength and courage
What a life of shambles it would have been
Without your inestimable sacrifices

My music teacher from the womb
Mama you are second to none
From the first day i knew you
I knew you are an inestimable jewel
Ever true, timeless and loving

To only buy you diamonds
That will be very ungrateful of me
But forever i will love you
Even in your grave my love i promise
Truly truly i know
You are incomparable !

THIS DAY ........

THIS DAY.....
My dear inestimable daughter
This day i have prayed and
Prepared you for
This day i can’t help but cry
This day i slaughtered cows for
This day my girl is going
With all the love she has for me
This day she goes away
Forever goes away with this
Man unknown to us but her
As sweet as this my home is
Here she is vowing to live
With this stranger for as long
As she breaths
This day my feeling is purely
Interwoven with joy and sorrow
Diverse thoughts won’t let me be
But here my girl is smilling
Within her thanking her creator
For an answered prayer
Feeling that the mountain is moved
When she has never seen one
Looking at my girl i see a
A traveller with luggages
Gorgeously dressed and seated
In the bus and awaiting a driver
The driver she doesn’t know
The destination already set in the mind
But driver unknown,the route unfamiliar
Yet the destination,her priority
This day she has decided
This day i have accepted
This day, what more can i say?
For all my labour,pains,love
Sacrifices,endurance and resources
This stranger has brought dowry
And tubers of yam to me
Now my girl is gone with him
Gone to be a woman for a man
Gone to give this stranger her breasts
To get the best
Gone to give this man princes and princesses
This day she is gone to bear a strange name
In a strange land of a strange man
This day my girl publicly declared
She has found a new love,home and
Life till her breath walks out on her
This day my girl got married
This day my girl is exhanged for a dowry
This day i love but i cried !