I've seen you war
Your big bawls and short "ahems!"
Fear was your greatest weapon
With it you caused much mayhem
You killed the conscience
You ***** the soul
On these streets i see dead people
You got them all
I've seen you war
Sleek, raw, enslaving clicks
Fear the bullet, media guns
How you've mastered your trigger - pulling tricks
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The bullets rain
Facebook. Twitter. Aljazeera - The Raid
The lies you fed us
"But we was afraid....."
And lonely too
Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM UTC
I
Years and years of yearning
Dreams and dreams depressing
I fly back, back on the wings of memory
And time my pilot be
For time's grey hands yet swings
Ticking away behind sturdy wings
Backwards i journey humming like the bird
Past-ward to scenes
And sounds once seen
Once heard
Tearful laughter, painful joys
Youthful blunders - silent noise
Over and over, the flames rise
Over and over, storms in our eyes
Blue nights that once upon were
Who was there, what was fair
I write of a past once veiled
Lonesome,
dark memories i reveal
I will speak of choking,
muffled yells
Pain. Depression. Fear - Hell
II
"*Ah, say berries taste sweeter red
Their juices free as more they bled*"
But who taught the kid to feed?
Nanny dumb; he nipped the ****
More so, as like a log she lay
Dogs shall school your kid to play
Yet should we upon mores lay blame
Cholerous slight culture's game
Slay her players with a Poisoned Placard
Aces. Queens. Kings. Protesters. Playing card
No, i shall not cheer my own fall - come
Sit with me, give me your hand, come -
Though you are broken, hold -
Proud. Resilient. Bold.
I call to you, "come father,
Tell me what house fire make the kites gather,
What color, the smoke of marijuana?
Your girlfriend - is she really from Ghana?
Will you have stone if i gave you meat,
Tell me, what is it you do in corners of dark streets!?"
Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 6:20 AM UTC
In this one question
Lay
Answers to my
Day:
REVOLUTION?
Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 7:26 AM UTC
Love has knocked me down again
I don't know
If i could make it
Through this flimsy sphere
Up to cloud nine again
The strength to fight gravity
Oh, i lost it
When through these silken folds, i fell:
Spread eagle, without a will to fly -
Eight, seven -
Broken wings
Sad farewells from the heavens
Oh hell! i know this pain
Six
Five
Only God knows what my tomorrow holds
What landing awaits me: sea or steel
Without you in it
Tis but as sweet as drunken sleep
Sweet as your sweet goodbyes
Pure as good in your eyes
For you were just, always
Long as you spoke not or shut your lids
Ye messenger winds that my bulk so loosely bear
Bored sore, as it seems, by my frequent transit
Pray, hold a while - take a missive
For your next run beneath some poor lovebird's wings
Say to Love, not as before, differently -
Oh how earth runs towards me
How loneliness beckons
How solitude sweetly sings a serenade -
Four
Three
Two
Goodbye my beautiful
One
(THUMP)
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 7:10 AM UTC
Memories
Moans and groans of the dying and the living-dead
Last words: phrases that lingered
Still on their tongues
Bloods, boots and broken bones on cassava farms
where they fell
Crosses rotten, and this rusty brown shell
Tell stories of a past - that ****** movie
This ****** war
Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 10:59 AM UTC