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Jaes_ink
Jaes_ink
22/F/Nigeria Confessional writer. / Advocate of peace and freedom.
We hugged the last time our paths crossed. Intense like the lovers who had to let go. Our faithless moments I tried to push aside. Move on just like everyone else. Not easy you whispered in my ears. Tonight. She came in shades of dark and hue. Welcomed by the sound of the rain. Forced to water the earth by the rain maker. Another set of misfortune has befallen me. Tensioning like the chat with the therapist An escape from the conversations holding in my head. "You're healing" my favourite compliment. Yet I lie about your visits. Suddenly you changed. The change from a special to ordinary girl In the eyes of our lovers. Angry we felt love in our own terms. I know you I screamed. Another turn off your swollen face I fell from my bed Happy we've lost tracks again. Still I think of our encounter. I am terrified you've come to stay.
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Jul 29, 2020
Jul 29, 2020 at 6:31 PM UTC
Insomnia
There's this exhausting road you still find yourself wandering in. The potholed path of living in thoughts In your mind every time. You can be seen along there in the morning. The fear of waking to the ray of the sun stealing glances of your naked body. Playing dead as the alarm goes off. Stuck in the mud of incompetent. An airing voice of failure. Smacked on your palms for missing the opportunity to live. A collapsing vision you're handed. At 25 you're seen a failure. In the afternoon you are found there. Seeking for shade under the roof of social vices. The demeaning laughter of colleagues during lunch hour. Cause you couldn't contribute to buy lunch. Hunger is seen playing on your face. A frustrating look you wear not cause of the neighbor you got into a fight with. Rather it is about the alarming emptiness of your savings. The month is fast ending yet the pile of bills welcome you each day. Peace departs from your heart. At night you lay helpless on same path. Laid out, not wanting to rise. Since hope has been bitten off your mind. Mistakes swinging the rope dangling from the roof top. This time "whys" became an escape route to meet death. Breathing in and exhaling defeat. Believing lies you served for dinner. Today we sought for you in this path. Echoed depression and lies. We couldn't get to have a taste of your thoughts. Now we leave a message behind. Each day that path you cross is a story. Fight the cause for triumph. Do not breath without breathing.
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 4:45 PM UTC
The path we all hate.
There's this exhausting road you still find yourself wandering in. The potholed path of living in thoughts In your mind every time. You can be seen along there in the morning. The fear of waking to the ray of the sun stealing glances of your naked body. Playing dead as the alarm goes off. Stuck in the mud of incompetent. An airing voice of failure. Smacked on your palms for missing the opportunity to live. A collapsing vision you're handed. At 25 you're seen a failure. In the afternoon you are found there. Seeking for shade under the roof of social vices. The demeaning laughter of colleagues during lunch hour. Cause you couldn't contribute to buy lunch. Hunger is seen playing on your face. A frustrating look you wear not cause of the neighbor you got into a fight with. Rather it is about the alarming emptiness of your savings. The month is fast ending yet the pile of bills welcome you each day. Peace departs from your heart. At night you lay helpless on same path. Laid out, not wanting to rise. Since hope has been bitten off your mind. Mistakes swinging the rope dangling from the roof top. This time "whys" became an escape route to meet death. Breathing in and exhaling defeat. Believing lies you served for dinner. Today we sought for you in this path. Echoed depression and lies. We couldn't get to have a taste of your thoughts. Now we leave a message behind. Each day that path you cross is a story. Fight the cause for triumph. Do not breath without breathing.
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Everyone is in a battle field ,the course depends on which you wrestle against Beings with baremouth filled with uncouth language surrounds us A frail and feeble cotton mind buried in lies they pollute our lives with Staining my hope for living The stage gave me strength I too am a fighter Multiple eyes plants on my skin, focused on my lips as words made way Whilst I rendered their world silent ,with truth flooding my eyes a disposition that raises brows Gender suppression Color oppression Body shaming Cultural and religious diversities They are nothing but challenges to live better Creating a world outside the beliefs and customs we're taught to  live by Besides there's no blind thought in the room of wisdom Today the sun rose earlier than it did same day last year A beautiful reminder to the oppressors An eccentric spirit I have Who have wandered through the years of judgement fighting the course that had me in bed during dinner Past tags there's more to be felt in human society Representing the downtrodden with vain and Lain hearts Transformation is found in each of their belief A hope of arrival Alongside an end to the death stakes littered in our hearts
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 11:49 AM UTC
Message to the oppressors
The headline told a lie, hiding the scratches of a failed government We crave for redemption yet we are the sin committed A suffocating truth carved against our egos and pride Awoken from the slumber we are forced to dine in, to seek a light Before you raise your flag in the street Not a wish nor a prayer but a request that Flashes of unattended promises from the manifesto blinds your path Capitalized lies which stood the taste of corruption and laundering caress your choice Millions of death pools stealing our guts, leaving us with sealed lips tend our wounds Do you still want to raise it? Before you raise your flag in the street Not a question but a simple reminder that The pay you received stole your pride Taxes climbed the mountains touching the helm of hunger You sit with unanswered questions begging for sleep Void fills your heart, hope is lost You made the choice Rethink do you still have a truth? Before you raise your flag in the street Hang tight with the answers you gave your mind Kisses of impotent words will slap your  cheeks Promises will pat your back and money will grace your pocket Instead of dining with the moment to impoverish the future Do not raise your flag But before you raise your flag in the street Death never tastes good until it is felt Another needs to live.
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Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018 at 1:10 PM UTC
Before you raise your flag
Becoming an adult is the greatest trick I fell for, happened faster than taking my first step Never wished life to be unfair to childhood memories The promises and games I have forgotten some I try to recreate Out of reach, the paper plane stayed Each fold looks exactly like the segments of my heart, enclosing spilled secrets Hoping to escape on a boat built with chocolate wrap My favourite snack turned enemy, doctor said I have diabetes Trapped in between a stormy sea stretched miles apart, scared not to drown in my own tears Prayers offered during a full moon night I held on to than friends Still scribbled on the face of a blue sky are the conversations we had Talking to the mirror becomes an act I didn't outgrow Unleashing the beauty of becoming me The growth and changes in living Everyone and everything changed form Our giggles now turned to be a disguised laughter to keep us from crying With cheeks hiding the stress we encounter on our way to become adults The pattern is endless Hoping to play in the rain naked away from the prying eyes of life Washing off the words burnt on my skin Left with beautiful scars for becoming an adult The greatest trick I fell for.
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Oct 7, 2018
Oct 7, 2018 at 6:15 PM UTC
Adulthood; greatest trick i fell for.
If you get your heart broken, love doesn't care about the strength left in you Neither does it notice the pale eyes and scattered hair you wear out Tread with your heart by listening to the voices in your head How did I forget so easily? The sweetness of your voice and the melodious thrill in your tone As you whispered "trust me" Something changed Convinced I heard it before, seems I have said it a few times. Yet a handful of mess I allowed Believing every word you said Now I sink in doubt, a fragile affair it is A piercing word ripping walls apart tearing down every feelings Once broken your sense of belonging is lost with every humane feelings off your body Trust, this isn't just a word Its tales lives in every heart that have been broken Misty eyes and fractured heart Do I still have to believe you?
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 12:26 PM UTC
Trust cost a thing.
The little voice begging for love and freedom from classroom is mine I a child Who harbours unspoken words and wavered feelings in my heart If you let my spirit out of this cage, a beautiful world I'll paint Now I am bound by chains of failure and mothers unemphatic nature Every invisible second steals a pint of blood and bucks of flesh off me Mother is now the pain I see, an undying tormentor she turned to be On my skin she left her palm slaps and upbeat attitude that gets me grounded The unpacked toys on the shelf describes me, a missing puzzle lying on the counter defines me Jack and Saldy are now my favorite mares, the spirits by my window at night they are On a daily I receive the backlash for not coming down for dinner A loner in a busy house I am, neither living nor dead Everyone thinks I am reserved, NO There's peace in returning to my bed at night, a reviving hope of not seeing another rising sun Mother can you look at my future, you've murdered my dreams of playing cricket Do you even notice the pain in my eyes, or the numb little robot you've created out of me I am complaining to the deaf ears of nature, broken and cold my spirit have turned to be The wind is upon me, I shall sink my ship to let the sailor live Whoever sees my body at the graveside should know I was a happy child Before my demons haunted me.
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Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 4:35 PM UTC
Family killed me before I died.
Stacks of currencies are littered everywhere, his affluence depicts his personality Stationed at the highest echelon of the society, mischievous premier of the economy The youths are tools for his snap, going down the lane of delinquency He tosses them at will, giant explorer of the weak willed The hangman hanging their destiny Thrall, underprivileged class of the society Walled up in oblivion, depreciating hope of a better tomorrow Dressed in shreds, hunger and death our daily meal At dusk we feed rats of the street, our slums is the garbage bin for tomorrow The horror of the morning is waking to find a dead kid wash offshore Living in fear of the unknown seconds sustaining each day Lying in the most of coziness In fluffy beds, wired machines life leaves him Blaring ambulance conveys him to the morgue, still attended to as the high priest Embalmed with costly myrrh, he is taken for internment Amidst tears and wails he's gently lowered into that dark room The one room he never had Beings scattered with crawled limbs and infested mouth He passes on from the forlorn to yonder, lying in gutter, under bridges The privileged of us get to have our relatives, others are found in cemeteries fed on vultures No mourners at our graveside, forgotten before dawn Still the one room we never had Society gapped our lives with class Death humbles us breaking the tags of importance We are equalised, affluence and poverty disperses The dark room of solace our abode, putrid we become.
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 8:00 AM UTC
One room we never had
Stacks of currencies are littered everywhere, his affluence depicts his personality Stationed at the highest echelon of the society, mischievous premier of the economy The youths are tools for his snap, going down the lane of delinquency He tosses them at will, giant explorer of the weak willed The hangman hanging their destiny Thrall, underprivileged class of the society Walled up in oblivion, depreciating hope of a better tomorrow Dressed in shreds, hunger and death our daily meal At dusk we feed rats of the street, our slums is the garbage bin for tomorrow The horror of the morning is waking to find a dead kid wash offshore Living in fear of the unknown seconds sustaining each day Lying in the most of coziness In fluffy beds, wired machines life leaves him Blaring ambulance conveys him to the morgue, still attended to as the high priest Embalmed with costly myrrh, he is taken for internment Amidst tears and wails he's gently lowered into that dark room The one room he never had Beings scattered with crawled limbs and infested mouth He passes on from the forlorn to yonder, lying in gutter, under bridges The privileged of us get to have our relatives, others are found in cemeteries fed on vultures No mourners at our graveside, forgotten before dawn Still the one room we never had Society gapped our lives with class Death humbles us breaking the tags of importance We are equalised, affluence and poverty disperses The dark room of solace our abode, putrid we become.
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Somewhere in between my scattered bed and fuzzy hair Around the first lazy hour past midnight, I dreamt again You were there with your ***** snapped teeth and razing eyes You wanted to talk or you came back with your spirited voice to fight Something is different about you now, the cuts on your thighs are deep Covered with bandages of death I came to tell you about my new found addiction to smoking Fidgeted with a half-empty  glass tightly clasped within your grip. You were my home, and I was your tormentor I didn't know the heaven I had, now hell stings with the flashes of you I couldn't fit in either I am dying You turned to leave He changed from this happy soul to the grimace of a devil I would know that this  particular night was one where you so desperately needed to feel home. Yet I could only observe you before returning to pick up the garbages left of you Tomorrow I will visit not to torment you, rather to be your peace.
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Sep 20, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM UTC
He needs peace.
I will borrow our time Those wasted on the shores of love Believing you'll be mine Hold me at the end if it rips you apart Everyone needs to know about us Borrow me your smile The gay robust cheek when you pluck flowers Watching my daughter from the window do same She's you, I see myself too Our mistake she wore, now my pain she is The squishy sound you make at night After recovering the mails I never saw The doctors said you would live long I believed we would stay Now I have just words to eat It rained the day I lost you to her Same the day you tore my clothes in the street I let you fill yourself in me A bare floor I am, lost my glory to you The rain is a curse to me I would have loved to borrow you and time For a night to talk about us To spare me the pains of withering everyday Like the flowers my daughter picks Now I spur myself to the bliss of life. I found myself on loosing you.
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 12:20 PM UTC
Lost love