Oyin Garba

In the light of this

The Impoverished Poor!

We the masses, live in the shadows of our leaders.

We come to you

Cloth less, without food

Shelter less, no place to live

You tell us

Vote for me!

I will give you everything

Anything, everything

Or more simply put

Nothing at all

We the masses

We have lost all faith

In our leaders

Unpatriotic patriots

So we turn away

Maybe science…

It was cold as I walked into my bedroom from the place where the porcelain god is lord, I didn’t remember opening my windows because it was definitely cold out when I went to bed, somehow now though my window is open to the elements, rubbing my arms briskly I go to close it in any case, I step past the fluttering curtains to pull down the shades and something catches my eye, there is something a…

         Looking back now

With mirth in my heart

I wonder

Why do I laugh?

Probably because

Of the knowledge

I have always had

In my heart

For years I had wanted (more…)

Strong As ever

Brave in battle

Higher than the umbrella

Necked like a bottle

Who dares the eagle?

With its strong talons

And powerful wings

The heart of the brave

(more…)

Itchy skin, much too tight, too full

Like a virus too much

Lavender, Something exotic

A wildly elusive scent

Teasingly mild Strongly soft

Deceptively gentle

(more…)

In the beginning

The flames crackled

Then the dry rotting wood

Caught

And then…

Well then

I was to be lost in you

Correction;

I am lost in you

For the flames keep burning

I think your presence fuels it

The stupid fire

I never wanted this

But here I am

Craving you,

The feel of you

Even as my head says

Don’t!

And now?

My entire being burns relentlessly.

  With a gasp of pain

We rise everyday

Seems like only yesterday

When the world faced its bane

With a defiance

Born from deep compliance

We have arisen today, anew

To bid these ones adieu

(more…)

Look at us,

What we have become

I have given everything

Yet nothing Is all I have (more…)

What is love?

What good does it serve?

When it eventually causes ache

No, not ache

Pain

I weep

Yet no tears have I to give

Baby…

Come home

I want to feel the familiar weight of you on my bosom

Let me not fade from your mind

Like the clouds before a rainstorm

Let us remain bound

Together, you;

You I love no one now

No one ever.

  Estar

I am the stone

That was rejected

I am the bone

That was broken

I am the tome

That was torn

I am the one

That was denied

  I am my own tribe

I stand for all that is brittle

I represent the ones

Who have fallen and are crippled

The ones who are broken

And incapable of more

I follow the parts carved

In the stones laid before me

  Bound by ancient fears

I am the chained god

I am the sentient being

W…

The Dire Ramblings of a Drowning Emotion …

Lonely

The walls are closing in, finally. I have walked the dry wastelands of dust and bones, I have travelled the same paths the ancients walked and I have chased wisdom as they did. Yet, this is all I am left with, this is all I am. No more, no less.

Wisdom is overrated, enjoy your life, because it is a gift, live it to the fullest. That in itself is wisdom, it requires no chasing because…

  When mother saw you with me

She smiled and said 

To no one in particular

‘that, right there is a good man,

Don’t lose him’

I didn’t understand her much

I didn’t think it was possible to lose a person, 

Not until you left me without a glance

Me with my flaws. 

Now all I know is need;

I need, so much I am wallowing

I drown, Andrew in self-pity and pain

Every kind of hurt and pain

That I feel, I…

  There she sat, feeling like the weight of her world was on her tiny shoulders, all she could think was, ‘mama didn’t love her enough’, she wondered if perhaps it was her greed that made her feel this way, she knew deep down, somewhere so deep even she hadn’t yet discovered it that she was loved, it just didn’t seem enough. Her siblings didn’t get as much punishment as she did, it happened…