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abubakar-abdulkadir
When our names were smeared with dust and kicked butt-naked into the streets tramped upon, squashed by dancers revelling on the song of our shame We take all in saintly fate Poverty has diverse chairs all which are glued to the heart of hell upon which we sit pipped with jears Our pains for the tithe we never paid untill our lives are almost spent We aren't bearing with us our sack of shame to the land were we shall endly rest Laugh not out of you breathe we shall mend our broken past and pick up the moon we left behind
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 6:50 PM UTC
Poverty
Into this word i came at midnight Darkness rested on my skull held me by my sleeves and led to its labyrinthe Puzzled I could'nt tell which path was plodded by the chastes nor that which led to the belching hell The hunters with lamps to lead me through and gourd of wine to quench my taste were deep asleep I, the kid who came at midnight when the world was lost in the song of thier snore
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 6:49 PM UTC
At Midnight
Has he not been beared From seas to streams Marked with cutlasses and ashes Forced to swallow cowries Why would he not wear down his face? Has he not been living On his choiceless delicacy Concoction of gmelina roots And garlic sap Why then would he smile? Why would he dance? The voilent drummers in his skull Were pounding thier drums Like groups of carpenters Driving pieces of nails Into a hardwood Has he not been marched Round the village on pant Bearing a *** stained with dry hen's blood And rotten bones and stenching earth Why would he not dash out his wealth To seek a neater heath?
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 6:45 PM UTC
The Sickler
When i pull the wind closer Lay it naked before my keen eyes Searching for stanzas hidden They call me mad When i look at the blood Fluttering from my veins Soaking me to my soles And i laugh Like a triumphant warrior They call me crazy My nights i have slaughtered For the gods of inspiration And i wondered at night Like a broken lion They call me insane But i am a poet on a quest To best lay my tent Where generation Shall peacefully rest
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 6:42 PM UTC
A Poet On A Quest