There'll never be enough
For this world to feed,
Not debts, nor dough,
Not deaths will cease.
Who cares for joy
In living with less,
With lives to destroy
For personal progress.
Their legacy they build
Over ****** and lies,
But don't heed us,
As fools, we cry.

As the world keeps watch
Over each coin and grain,
We teach giving,
And living in pain.
Our audacity must
Pay you a dear price,
Make examples of us
For all to despise.
Forget us.
We're just
Fools in a paradise.

Live on
You poet's lover.
When the world dies,
You are
Immortalized.

Can violence be countered
Only by violence?
To be equals, we must riot
To be just, we must fight
Why every government every state
Furthers the hate mandate
Even
To show love we must ****
Or the enemies will
We say we want justice and peace
Why, why then this malice?
Where does our heart lie
As we slaughter and die?

You.
Do you know or care
Who you are?
Have you ever tried
To look a bit far
And find some more about
You?
I will reveal
If you believe
And vow to be
As destined,
I will speak on
Why you were born,
And what’s the deal with
You.
But be aware,
As I do share,
You must partake
For your own sake
Now in this quest,
And try your best
To find more meaning in
You.

You are a hold
In which this world
Hides its treasures
To others, unheard.
You are the sound,
From a source not found,
With secrets of future,
And purpose of nature,
You.
You are the truth
That time conceived,
You are the womb
That needs no seed.
You are a wonder,
You are a dream,
And this world a sky,
Where dreams do fly,
You.
You are a vision,
A divine mission,
Power manifest
Through life’s contests.
You are the fruit.
Meant for the altar,
Altar most high
Where justice resides,
You.
What more you need?
Do you believe?
My blood, my kin,
You are in you
A wonderful thing.
You are the change
This world can be
You are the eye
Of this gyre,
You.
If not to you
To whom this plea?
If not for you
Who could lead?
If you won’t stand,
If you won’t bleed
What good this day
You choose to live?
You.

What are we? 20 - somethings
Depressed and angry
Giving days of our best years
to this or that MNC
Nights, we sit with a beer
and use the dim pub lights
and noise to hide tears
That flow unchecked, without reason..
Or maybe for something that's not reason.
Moving away from those closest
to us - we don't take rejection well
So better push than get pushed.
What we will pass to our progeny
would be tales of vicious companies
That we offered our youth to,
Hoping they would value
Life more than luxury.

Nkem,
With endless love,
with faith
A heart, they say, is won.
In that hope
these thousand nights
But mine, to claim, is none.
Nkem,
Are a thousand nights
all I can get
For you, for me, for us?
A thousand lonely
Nights in wait
For one night to be just.
Nkem,
Let it be sung,
A song out loud
A song of love and pain,
So that never
a thousand nights'
Vigil be gone in vain.

I try to think
Of a million things
To avoid one thought
That is you.
And yet,
It's like reaching out
of a swamp.

The more I try
to get free
The deeper I fall.