AFRICAN WOMAN

The dwindling of the trees
The coolness of the breeze
The drizzling of the rain
The leaves flying around freely
Stream flowing endlessly
Children running happily down the street
Supper came in a big round calabash
The children sitting round the evening “Atupa”
To hear stories that plant in them morals.

Inside the next room there is a woman
Holding her child so close
Singing a lullaby to put her to sleep
So much beauty in a woman’s strength
The versatility of an African Woman
The creativity, it’s an uncomparable reality
She rises up above all the problems
Nothing is ever intimidating

African woman is blessed
She is inspired above all the odds
She is hopeful beyond a doubt
Always proud of her identity
You can argue that money rules
But at what cost?
How much is an African woman worth?

Fathers worked hard to feed the children
But thanks to mama
Who taught them the morals to excel
Oh my African woman
Looking radiant as if she never cries
Oh my dear creator
Let us realize everyday
The hope and strength she represents

Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s celebrate
The African woman
The one who makes everything look simple
She can see the future
Through the eyes of an eagle
The one ready to be the best
By any means possible
Lets stand for the power of
An African Woman

Should I?

When I remember that someday I will leave
This wishy washy cunning difficult life
I wonder if I should laugh or cry
Or should just do all I can to leave marks
To engrave my names on a rock
To leave behind works that would speak words

It’s a wide, wild, weird, woeful earth
Yes, I will be gone with no regrets
Cos’ I have walked on sands and left footprints
I have cried in the dust and left tear drops
I have tilled the ground and left plenty grains

Amidst deceit and heart breaks
I have gotten married and had children
Amidst rebellions, my children are role models
They have been proven by test and time
While my body rotten away in the soil
My name will remain on the lips
While my soul returns to the giver
My works remain as a proof of life gone

Where I could not speak, my works reach
The story will keep spreading that
There once lived a man whose life was worthy
Whose words has healed
Whose pen has written
Whose life was a sample
With knowledge of this certain fact
Should I still mourn this day yet to come

DUST

For a many nights I have been sleeping
And I know I may sleep to wake no more someday
These nights I dream,
When you see my dreams come true rejoice with me
Cos it’s a privilege
During the day when I stumble,
Don’t mock me
Sometimes the earth shakes and the mighty men fall
When I store up emotions and tears drop from my eyes
Still don’t mystify it, even the sky cries out rain
Knowing that rain blesses people’s grains
Every tear I cry will produce me joy and laughter
Every night in my life shall be followed by a new dawn
Surely my mourning will cease in the morning
My prayer will always end up with an answer
Even when my mouth seizes, my mouth speaks
My pen writes, my soul rises
Thus when I die, don’t mourn me
But mother the motherless and homeless
Just bury the body in the soil
Let the plants draw nutrients needed
Don’t build mansions over the dust and empty body
Rather shelter the living homeless and abandoned
Don’t feed the rich and mighty for my sake
Rather invite the poor and the hungry
This body too once lived on the streets
But picked, fed, cleaned and helped by an unseen hero
My spirit and soul disguised in this body
But I know so well that my body is dust
I’ll rather feed my spirit and soul
My body shall return to itself, ordinary dust!
Body is vanity as life

NEVER A MOTHERLESS !

I have seen different sizes and shapes of women
Sometimes, the tall, short, slim and fat
Each with their unmistaken body smell
Some so beautiful beyond description
Yet ugly ones still on the street with no shame
Then I look at myself and ask, how do I look?
Surely I have no relation with these ones
Unfortunately I was born in those black days
When faces die with no history to behold

Her face has gone with her, nothing to behold
Now I see theirs, mine is unknown
Family describe hers to me, still can’t be sure
I have tried to place a look for her in me
It keeps getting hard, couldn’t help myself,
I feel like a lost child
Looking for her mother she couldn’t identify
Every faces seeming like her lost mother

But one thing I was told and believed
I was conceived and born of a woman
Who at a point of giving me life lost hers
Who couldn’t lose me but preferred to lose herself
The woman who couldn’t watch me grow
But put God to watch over me
Who couldn’t give me anything
But left me with God who gave me everything
Then I decided to stop looking at faces
Since I am with God who has always taken me places
And I will never believe that I am a motherless!

MY AKANNI

My only love Akanni,
Forever I remain your cherished Adunni
This love have survived
From the moment it emerged
How passionately I missed the mango tree
Life was as if we could never be free
Just a whistle from the stream
It was a transformation of my dream
Never knew a perfect gentleman
Neither did I know the honor meant for a woman
Nor the beauty that speaks without a word
Not until I met the prince charming
The total end to my day-dreaming
How I am out of the fantasy land
This love knows no bound
Black is beautifully outstanding
Long time ago I stopped doubting
The butterflies in my heart still growing
For you every time I’m glowing
Love has favoured me through my Akanni
Success has crept into my life, thanks to my Akanni
Every moment I live is Akanni and Adunni
What love tastes like is Akanni
Duduyemi omokunrin to dara bi Egbin my Akanni
The only destined husband of Adunni
With everything that I am,
I lay it all down, just for you to be
The only Olowo ori mi Akanni
Yours truly & faithfully

Coming Soon

Somewhere someday I will be a wife
To a man of long time dream and hope
Made and sent in here just for me
At last the identity will be revealed
The thinking and imagination shall quit
No matter how long I shall not be misled
My husband is only for me not any
Morning is almost here, end to the stormy night
In a cozy and fresh morning, he shall come
I have the strong inspiration
Never will I feel any desperation
With my God I have a strong communication
Safely my crown I will wear someday
Right now I shall pray for him everyday
Someday my Akanji shall come
With no tears nor difficulties
When it’s only a fulfillment to a destiny
Konge Konge I will meet him soon
Gbejege Gbejege I will be the happiest

My Africa

Go into the world and give them a good impression
Clean away the marks of rejection
Stop giving yourselves a bad image over vanity possession
Be renewed and show the world the determination
Represent a new Africa with a new generation
After all we have got outstanding values and tradition
We are the blessed offsprings filled with unbroken ambition
Full of unfailing inspiration
Now we use words and not wars for communication
After all we have dreams that can’t face interrogation
All we seek for Africa is promotion
To every children seek we education
To kill in our youths fraudulent passion
And stop giving the world tension
My dear Africa, pray for God’s compassion
Together we can kill the spirit of desperation
If we can dare to apply just a caution
My dear Africa, stop the deception
It will only bring us confusion
If the world forgets us and gives no attention
This time shall come except we do our correction
Africa, tame yourself and stop the shameful gyration
Never too late, we can start the preparation
It’s never impossible, not a hopeless condition
My dear Africa, let’s work towards the actualization
If these can become a realization
Then my Africa will come together in jubilation
The world will join in the celebration
Then Africa will have no complication
And the world will watch us in admiration.

Poetry Someday

My given talent someday will put food on my table
The works of my hand will become so profitable
Someday it will become so commendable
Even though they call me unreasonable
Very soon my work shall become so dependable
I am not bothered if they find it unbelievable
God has given me the grace to be capable
Someday it will become so fashionable
Poetry will become so palatable
Its force in the universe will be so formidable
For every event, it will be suitable
Then, people will know that poetry is no fable
Although this may not yet be understandable
But someday, this will be generally acceptable
Then you will agree that nothing is impossible
Poets will become so inevitable
Our dreams and hopes will never be breakable
I will become a hero unstoppable
I will heal the world and become undeniable
The world will grow and become charitable
Every book that has strong words will be readable
Then my death to the universe will forever be memorable

YEEPA!!!

So empty is the room, a love is lost
Who cares what I feel? Everything is dust
Tears are sweet, today I have the taste
Today I wish love had a cost
Sometimes not long, the man was here first
He is a thief and stole all so fast
I ignored everyone that called him not the best
I remembered how we walked down the street
Whispering words and passionately holding my wrist
Who could have thought, all was just lust
Am I his first victim or last?
Broken hearted, hard to believe I have joined the list
It was a relationship mama passionately detest
But wouldn’t listen until the bomb finally blast
Though a lesson is learnt at least
To listen to parents before anything first
If only you seek nothing but the best
As a teenager who needs knowledge and skill to be vast
Seeking love from men can still wait at least
Hope young ones like me will read it and digestThat obedience is nothing but the best!

I CHOOSE

Every day is fresh and clean
Every moment is a feeling of hope in the next
Every hope is a quest for its reality
Every opportunity could be grabbed and used
Life could be sweet or sour
But today, I choose the good against the bad
I choose success against failure
I choose ocean against stream
I choose the sky against the ground
I choose hard work with reward
I choose joy in place of tears
I choose the best in place of average
I choose the almighty God in place of idols
I choose wisdom in place of foolishness
I choose life and fulfillment in place of death
I am given the chance to choose
Today and forever
I choose excellence in all my ways

LOVE

It took me miles to reach you
Many years for me to meet you
I shed tears to have love
I felt pains to get close
This is a dream of ages
The story is on pages
Love so real so scarce
It’s never found in an easy source
Finding love is a destiny
It’s far above any learning
Where love is absent
Loneliness is present
Failure is possible
Depression is inevitable
But, today I touch my own love
I am face to face with my destiny
The joy I feel I can’t deny
Even in my pocket no penny
Although, it might sound funny
But a destiny is fulfilled

SHAME

Hope is locked up in the closet
Breakthrough is pocketed deep inside some pockets
Development is sat upon by some strange humans
With sword innocent eyes are being plucked
Stream no longer flow water but blood
Young seeds no longer serve its planters
But plucked by thieves to glorify their shame
Here we see wealth but can’t behold
We awaits hope not forthcoming

Here we seek justice from the lawless
Here we are at the mercy of the heartless
Trusted methods have failed in the hands of the distrusted
Now we live in the mockery of our lives
Our offspring have gone to serve in a strange land
With a full grown hope in inhuman jobs
Hope in the money given to deduct only feeding
To immediately return back the rest in the name of utility bills
Hope in the place where they are in total denial of love
Total hope is in the self slavery that bring meal

If blood flowing were sacrificial
It’s enough to take away our reproach rather than adding
Even though nature have given us everything richly
But greediness of our hearts have defeated the gift
Our shallow minds have led us astray
We have spilled blood on nature
Invited disaster to the land supposed to be peaceful

Now confusion lives everywhere with us
Even the wicked have done so much evil
That their lists are blank and totally in misery
This is a reality that brings down tears
Heavy slap on the face of an hopeless giant
Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! I feel

REMEMBER

Yesterday’s wars and struggles gone
The dropped down tears have dried up
The downtrodden is now raised up
Think about the tearfully planted seeds
That have brought these fat proceeds
Have you forgotten the co-runners of yesterday?
Who never completed the race to see today?
Remember the strongholds before now
What about the sleepless long nights?
The wet days under Eko Bridge?
Think about the lonely path toured
So soon forgotten how the story goes
Remember the hell before the help
The thirst, hunger, homelessness
Don’t forget your transition between then and now
Someone somewhere is wearing your formal shoe
Extend a help for a difference!

THE PROUD

Head high like a gigantic storey building
All others are ordinary ground
Walking down the hood
Singing himself songs of praise and adoration
He is the only custodian of wealth
His wisdom surpasses others
In his eyes he remains the best

Who dares question his authority?
All heads must bow to his majesty
His words to others are destructive weapons
To him, destinies mean nothing
His heart fully hardened
Only his life means something
His life, the pride, his doom

In spite of his incomparable wisdom
Full of crisis is his household
Wealth is his wall of security
Evil people are indeed proud and arrogant
Gathered wealth through evil means
Fattest offering for shutting up reward
If only he can accept he’s foolish

But at last,
Who is always in trouble?
Who argues and fight?
Who has cuts and bruises?
Whose eyes are red?

Wisdom brings strength not weakness
With, battles are won diligently
But a life void of wisdom of God
Purely nothing but a shattered life
If only we can plead for wisdom
Put away our destructive pride
Remembering wealth and honor forever never

DAYS OF MY LIFE

DAYS OF MY LIFE

Days of my life seems endless but countable
These days I have, only God is my witness
The days of my life only God I trust
The days of my life only God I know
Of the things I do in my days
To the knowledge of God almighty alone
God, the only consolation in times of sorrow
The sweetness that outlast my bitterness
The days of my life, all my hope is in God

HE is my life long inspiration
His voice so loud that storms obey
His arms so long that I am never sunk
The days of life, purely the grace of God
Sometimes my sinful life has brought shame
Hindering me from walking tall amidst peers
For these days, God forgave me to walk tall again
The days of my life I realize I need only God
So much more than He ever needed me
So much loneliness, only God makes the difference

Unspeakable moments that only God understands
My life, my faith, my hope, my GOD
The living words in my life
My God, the comforting truth
The voice that silenced the storms
The hope of the just
The refuge of the forsaken
Everything, the origin of
The salvation awaiting sinners
For all the days of my life
How can I ever forget you?

WHITE PAP

White pap from the black clayed pot
Mouth wide opened to what seems impossible
The shame has brought forth the glory
The glory unable to forget the shame
The heavy stain on the face of a King
The unspeakable story of a gem
Yet the King must stand tall
And look the world in the eyes
Yet the King emerged
From the very black and forsaken pot
Back then, a promise has been broken
A lie has been said
A step has been mistaken
Some words has been misused
All of these, the black clayed pot did
Yet it brought forth the white pap
Eko fifun from ikoko dudu
I am the unstoppable force of my time
Unregretable offspring of the land
I am the proud son of Africa
With boundless talents to face the world
Unbroken will to walk in the moon
I have no shame to introduce my identity
I am a black man with good manners
Black skin and hair color
Strong and healthy physique
Good day ladies and gentle men
I am from Africa, precisely Nigeria
The land of peace and abundance

ONLY YOU ....

I have seen real love in you
I have visited the moon with you
I have toured the universe through you
And I am yet to see a greater miracle
I have seen us in a perfect dream
Only you bring me up when I am down
When you touch my lips you touch me right
I feel pains disappear
You make me weak and wild

I have kissed the moon in a million times
There is no limit in the sky
You did things love never did
Even though life is no fun so many times
But in you I have found a worthy life
Now I am crazy for you
But still I haven’t seen anything
That makes me cry like you do
Life is a bed of roses with you
And in roses thorns live too
You remain my number one baby!

TODAY .......

TODAY…

Today I was born
Today was the beginning
Today that virtuous woman sighted me
Today that woman cried to have me here
Today she bared it all for me
Today I came from the world above
To bear witness to the greatness of my creator
Today I was welcome
Today they all felt the need to touch me
Today I was innocent
Today I was guiltless
Today, I am grown
With a lot of desires
And I keep on the trials
I search for the inspiration
Just to keep alive my ambition
Today, a day to reflect
Over the things I expect
Strongly, God I respect
I have a life impossible to oppose
Because my life is for a purpose
Even though I stumble
Never will I fumble
I refuse to settle for less
Mountain High River deep regardless
All thanks to God today and forever
Today has always been a blessing
Why will I not sing?
My journey started today
I was born today!

Black morning

How can he leave me speechless?
Why did he leave me helpless?
Now he’s gone under the ground
He’s put my joy on a hold
Until i am again bold
All of these untold
My heart bleeds for a lost love
The sun now after him
The moon now he can’t see
Now cock crows he hears not
He’s gone to return no more
As short as life is
Never knew so his
What I feel now is fears
In my eyes drop bitter tears
We have seen seasons together
What happened to all we planted?
The fruits he couldn’t wait to gather
What about the dreams
The passion
The fire
The desire
The determination
The zeal
The hopes
What happened to them?
The future have vanished with today
This black gloomy morning
This morning
Brought me mourning
I cry for a friend
With a heart so heavy
Dear friend
You had a life
You had a laugh
But you had it not long
I will miss you
Tobiloba odeyemi

HE DIES

Your pride and music ended here
In the world of the dead
Worms are your blanket
Maggots are your bed
Now you have eternally fallen
You have brought down lives
Now you are brought down yourself
Now you are deep in the land of the dead
Those who see you now will ask
So this man is not this more than?
This man who made the world trembles?
And shook up kingdoms?
This man who put innocent ones in prison?
And refuse to let them go alive?
You have murdered many
You delighted so much in evil
Now your family will be forgotten forever
And your sons will pay the crimes you committed
They won’t ever be called a leader
At last
The wicked man dies
Relief to many lives

I RISE

The day was dawn on me
The sun came on me
The rain has fallen on me
Now the sun, slowly giving a way to the evening
Here I have been sitting
Eluded with gifts and talents so raw
My lips are dried away of my dreams
I sit here and speak to the sun and moon
Telling how lofty the dreams I have
The moon must have been tired listening to my stories
Of dreams never come true
The day keeps coming in and going away
My bones keep getting older and frail
Still unable to fulfill the mission
My passion lives here in my mouth
The vision gets blur each day
The older, the more, the prizes
Yet it’s only a life here
I can’t ask for more life
But I can ask for real grace
Now I rise
Now I go to ask the moon
Ask the stars, the sun
Even ask the birds
Because my place is up there
Up there where they live
I have been here for too long
Let me go ask and learn the way
I rise to go pay the prize
Now I quit the gaze
I want to run a race

MAN

I shall labor to earn a living
I shall tilt the ground alone
Yet I shall eat the yam the least
I shall run the race to win
But the glory I shall bring home to give
If I am to bear a MAN
For years back I have been planting
Back home they wait confidently for the harvest
You will reap whatever you sow
I have been hearing that since when I was a child
But what happens to it after reaping?
They will always come eating
If I am to be called a MAN
I have to love and tolerate a woman
My heart has to be big enough
Peace loving
If I am to be called a husband
In the still of the night
Regardless the laboring of the day
The work goes on
If someday I am to be called a father
But that is not even enough
I have to work harder still
If I am to be called a SON, MAN, HUSBAND AND FATHER
In this world of hustling
I can’t help to stop struggling
If I want to keep leading
I realize success is not an option
It becomes priority for the man with mission
A MAN is responsible for things
But when he seize to be responsible
He’s sold out all his primary missions of life
He becomes a man that can’t man
Do you think you are a MAN?
Are you aspiring to be a MAN?
Then, work out to shine out the man in you
I have found in me the MAN.

OLUWADAMILARE

I was lost in a world of lust
Tracing back steps became so hard
End seems right here in the beginning
Whom do I call for a rescue?
How do I speak out to my helper?
My voice as good as that of a dumb
But suddenly something happened
Just on my to a suicide mission
Something so awesome to neither estimate nor evaluate

This thing left my mouth opened
It left my body shivering
OLUWADAMILARE
I was rejected and condemned but ……
OLUWADAMILARE
I was gentle and kind but
They were wicked and mean
I was straight and truthful but
They were cunning and deceptive
But look at me now..
OLUWADAMILARE

I have been abused and harassed but now
OLUWADAMILARE
I have said things, done things unacceptable but now
OLUWADAMILARE
This is me that have bitterly wept but now
OLUWADAMILARE
I have made mistakes
I have been refused love and forgiveness severally but now
OLUWADAMILARE
My life has been a mixture but at last
OLUWADAMILARE

Now I am a full grown woman
Very confident and hardworking
A young girl whose life seems wrong back then
Whose hope seems frail
Whose future seems broken and empty
Here I am above all the complications
Above all my foolishness and difficulties
OLUWADAMILARE
It’s not about my wisdom
What I get is a pure divine favor
Mercy, love, and divine intervention
It’s far beyond my comprehension
OLUWADAMILARE
(GOD VINDICATED ME)

Valentine loneliness

Across the table he sits alone
Gulping his wine as if running a race
Staring into the very empty space
Leaving people to ponder what
Is coming from the space
With a feeling of jittery and dissatisfaction
Love have dumped him in the cold
No one to love and hold
Very pathetic the story she told
She’s gone with a man that can spend
Oh, its true big girls don’t send
Only bills they care to offset
They run when there is nothing to get
So sorry, but you couldn’t meet the target
She has to go get the better
Valentine comes only once in a year
She couldn’t afford to spend the day with a yell
She will be back when your seeds yield
But too fragile to help you tilt the field
Don’t let this kill your spirit
when money come, love will be right
valentine will be sweet and tight
she will be steady and ready
when the soup becomes sweety and meaty
she will be loving and caring
unable to live without your cuddling
but today you are alone in this your thinking

SWEET VENGEANCE

Today, you will go tell your peers
That never will you pierce
Today, I am ease of my own pain
So happy, I have given you the gain
Tell them your evil deal
I have brought you the evil meal
I know you always feel brave
But never in this grave
The deceptive kisses you gave
Couldn’t even save
Nor help your freely oozing out blood
Even this knife feel fulfilled
For the privilege to suck your wicked blood
Nothing can be more fulfilling
Than seeing this gory end
Right in the palms of my hand
Nothing as sweet as this sweet vengeance
I am sorry you couldn’t live to witness
The entire story told the world about your mess
But I hope you tell the unborn
That you meet on your way home
That it gets bloody, so bloody
When you toy with a blackened heart

I WON'T SHUT THE DOOR !

how can i say goodbye to you?
where will this courage comes from?
when you were all i could see
when the turbulent seems endless
when the pains promised death
when the joy was stolen
when my neighbour wouldn't care
were you not the one that came?
that was all yesterday
today's come with changes
trying to push her away from the surface
strangling me to say bye
if i dare say goodbye
how do i pay back her deeds?
her words have pushed me this far
her tears have changed my evil ways
her prayers have healed my wounds
let the world greatest stand
let that man of wisdom speak
oh ! let him teach me how to talk it
how to stand tall and look her in the eyes
without a blink in my eyes
without a conscience in my heart
and without any descretion inside of me
tell this woman it's over !
time has come to make use of it
she says "endurance is needed to succeed"
yes,the time has come to do it
i won't say goodbye
so that i won't say bye to good
here we will stand the storms
run and win the race
i fail to shut the door
i won't say goodbye

Poetry for them,truths for me

imagine my own life,just a story to many

many truths about my life

melody songs to listeners

this is my life,a song on many lips

see them dancing to my story

oh! they call it a song

these people call it ordinary work of art?

this is my entire world on paper

but what they see is just poetry

laying critics from their own worlds

afterwards it is only a written piece

but this is who i am,you are and they are

in this written piece we are all found

this is a world of you and I

making sense to different of us

all in our own very different way

anyway it is our own world of difference

MY INTERNET FRIEND !

His smiles from the miles
The feeling so near
The friendship so real
Eyes unable to see each other
Yet my joy his joy
In my fears he assures
In my success he rejoices
In my pains he cares

His advice so meaningful
Filling in deep emptiness
His words heal faster
Unseen and well known fellow
Technology have made us known
Minds similarities the major bond
Intelligence our common factors
Prosperity the goal we pursue

Together flock birds of the same feathers
I have found a companion in you
My unseen internet friendship
You are among the genius we await
Our generation needs you and I

WHAT A LIFE !

It is a life seems loaded
With many things gliterring like forever
Deceit becomes the carpet of the room
With its length seems endless
And the thinker becomes eluded with
What is life all about afterall?

With the players playing the game of
Uncertain ending and reward
Never bother to know where
The life comes from and goes
Even with different faces that
looks like so unknown
What a life of unanswered questions

unspeakable fear of the minute next
Each one keeping secrets of the unknown
Smiling out a sorrow so deep
Pretending all is well with
Everything wrong and frightening
feeling lonely amidst thousands of human
living poorly amidst of diamonds
it is indeed a life of ours !

yet,the right hand,the criminal u curse
but because you have to keep your
two hands together it remains your
friend unable to live without
is that not a life enough?

It seems options full for all
Yet it’s so empty with hands
Held tight and mouth sealed
Mysteries so strange and heavy
What a life live we ! ! !

Secret Admirer ......

When I face the front
He steals a look
When I laughed,
His soul smiles

When I am not happy
His mood changes
When he’s asked if he knows me
He said never saw me

He’s asked if he likes me
He said he’s unsure
He’s asked if he wants me
He said somehow

Secret admirer
I caught u a long time ago
Today is too late to deny

HE

HE
He’s smiled and laughed
He’s sang and dance
He’s stumble and trembled
He’s been trusted and entrusted
He’s whispered and talked
He’s touched and kissed
He’s been given and taken
He’s been loved and cherished
He’s been respected and adored
He’s been wanted and needed
He’s been my friend and confidant
He’s been the centre of my attraction
He’s been my standing ovation
He’s come and gone