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Elvis okumu Dec 2011
Take heart ye of broken wills and minds  
Take courage ye of fearful reluctance  
Take heed ye with the lack of wisdom
For it is not those that are above thee that triumph
It is not those who crush thee that live with victory
It is not them who know not a day’s labor that earn the favor
Nay verily I say to thee it is you who will inherit the riches
You who will walk with kings
You who will earn that favor
You who will fly on eagles wings
For you have paid your penitence
You have performed the deed
You who suffered the fire
You who the world admired
For your works are soaked with your determination
Your will strengthened by your trials
Do not look up and think that the skies will not accept thee
Do not look to the ground and think of the chains that bind thee
Aspire to climb the tallest mountain posed to thee
Aspire to mind the richest mine  
For I tell thee in secret and in truth  
It is not them that have their wealth handed  
But you who has his wealth earned
Who will live and prosper as they crash and burn
As the lessons you learn while thy face in the mud
Will be the lessons that keep thy ship afloat  
Thy mind from envious greed
They soul pure and untainted
As you receive thy reward so long awaited.
Elvis okumu Dec 2011
Sometimes it feels as if you’re a world away
Sometimes it feels as if you have abandoned me this day
Sometimes it feels as if I don’t exsit to you
Sometimes you  leave me with nothing to do
Now what do you want from me
I’ve given you everything that I once held dear to me
You gone and ****** me dry leaving a husk where a man used to be
You’ve gone and left me to fry
In my agony and pain under the beating of the cane of betrayal
So now I ask you why the promises
Now why the all the kisses
Now I ask you why you went and did this  
While in my heart it Is you I miss
I cannot know what brought you to this
For here I stand and here I bleed
I look and feel this raging need
But I turn and I begin to walk
For there is nothing more to be said no more to talk
You were not the one I sought
Though you are the one I want
But as I said I must now go
Where I end up not even I know.
Elvis okumu Dec 2011
On this day the day of your birth
The day on which you took your first tentative breaths of air
The day on which, like a candle being lit you fit into existence
I wish you enough joy to last a life time the type to make the world stop and stare
Enough smiles to so your beauty can radiate    
Enough love to warm your heart  
On this day I take joy for you
For all the flutters you cause in my heart
For all the happiness that envelopes me while you are in my arms
For joining me on this walk of life  
I pass my fondest wishes on this the day of your birth
And await to see a hundred more pass each filled with more joy than the last.
Elvis okumu Dec 2011
You went and did it, with but one touch you made my wild beating heart stop and sit. With but one look you changed the tempo, to the music of your words that I now play limbo to. What is a man to do, for with a single glance, you have made reason simply prance right out of mind. Made the grip of my rational mind unwind made the upstanding controlled young man unravel and in time you have brought me to a strange new land. In all of this I simply can’t understand can’t justify, vilify can’t demand that you take me back to my simple known land. For now it seems empty, desolate, a waste, you have unknowingly become my mate, my autumn my spring, a song so sweet solemn sacred in a reason only my own. You have staged a conquest and it seems that without rest you plan to place me under undue duress and you unknowingly seek posses the essence that is me. Can’t you see what it is that you do to me, you steal my thoughts with but a single sensual sway of your hips. You captivate my heart with but a single motion of your lips. How I count the ways, and the days that slowly pass as I observe you and berate myself on the lack of class of my actions. You have split my mind into factions, started wars within my heart put need into all of my interactions with my mind and soul. Turned me into a mushy bowl of bleeding emotion such that I now walk with caution careful not awake the slumbering soft bear of emotion that replaced   my valiant dragon.  
How is it that you hold this much power over me, making the only future that I wish to see one in which you will be with me. As I lay in my chair, my will does not fare well against the torrent of thoughts of that tie my mind mercilessly into knots. So beaten and defeated, divided I slump lower into a world so one sided.  I see a place by the sea, you seated in a chair me down on one knee grasping onto your hand and loving this moment more than my next breath. I look to see your eyes and the world slows, time nothing more than a meaningless word. I struggle valiantly to find the right words to keep this magic spell going. To keep the waterfall of emotion flowing, all the while knowing that any words I say will be inadequate to display the jewel that now lays softly in the folds of my own being. But if the words do come, and they pass the rigorous test of my lump of a tongue this is what I would say:
I ache day after day
Night after night  
For an answer do I pray
A losing battle do I fight

The dawn of the day
The soothing balm to my pain
The name that I say
The place where my heart is detained  

I have been bested
I have completely  lost
This eagle has finally nested
For you were worth the cost.  

For you I would slay monsters
For you I would conquer worlds
For you I would pay the cost of
Any precious jewel or pearl
For this I only ask that  
You simply return the feeling
For I know for a fact that
In you do I find all my meaning

I open my eyes to stare up at the cool white ceiling, clinging to feeling in that made up memory. I feel hot uncomfortable in my own skin, Twisting and turning I find no comfort in any way that I choose to lean. I wonder how and why this has occurred to me, I feel lost cast into the unyielding sea. Slowly like a haggard man stuck with weakness down with a sickness I stand and move to an open window looking out and breathing in the cool air. It only takes a scent, familiar easy like the falling of leaves, and again my mind is awash with thoughts too loud to ignore.  

I decide that I can’t take this anymore, I can’t live like this even if it costs me my pride I must seek you out  and in you will I have to confide.  Determined I walk out and move mission in mind, determined to find you. I turn the corner and there you stand, and again in my throat does my heart land. I walk forward and open my mouth to speak and you look over and softly brush my skin. And again you go and do it with but one touch you make me stop and sit. with but one glance you change the tempo the rhythm of the beating of my heart.
Elvis okumu Dec 2011
These words are inadequate.
I am dissatisfied for to me they do not relate.
They are ordered and filled with rules
And restrict my minds precious jewel
Its beauty cannot be described,
By the lies these words try to tell
The fake feelings these words try to sell
The disordered way together they weld
For what is within has no place to begin
No place to end no rules to follow nor money to spend
Like a sea it flow, through windows and out of doors
In the sea of nonsense, past sanity stable floors
What I feel cannot be described
Written, on a page placed
It demands that I express, give it no less
Than that to which it deserves
I feel constricted boxed in
Never allowed to let in
That sweet sunshine, that spot light
To the thing that lives within
I wish to give in to this ebb and flow  
Not to think but just to know
Where to go what to say
And yet I am dissatisfied by this my expression
For these words are inadequate  
And cannot relate to me
Cannot stand as evidence in my debate
With the sea inside me
For they are order instead of flow
Ruled instead of free
The jewel will not see will, not be admired
For without the stage it is forever in a dark unlit cage
Elvis okumu Dec 2011
Pushing me, Wanting me requiring me to be more than I want to be. It just will not leave me be can’t it see that I just don’t want to lead. Grow the seed, that it want to see. I can’t believe that it won’t leave me alone. It won’t condone, always telling me to hold the phone. All the restraint, without a complaint can’t be done, this battle will not be won. But I must, always resist the lust of that bust, resist the gust
of temptation, in my relations. In my conversations, on all occasions or be punished, banished, to this outlandish request.  I feel possessed, oppressed who would have guessed, that I would have to do the best. All the time, expected never to whine, when no rest I can find. I hurt and am pained, drained from all this restraint. I want to let loose, get my golden egg laying goose. Not be hung by the noose of responsibility. Constantly dictating what I must be doing no fooling allowed, my head must be bowed.
I grow tiered, just let me go I don’t wish to be admired I just want some rest, and peace of mind.
Elvis okumu Dec 2011
At times I sit, and think of things lost and gone
After everything has calmed down,  
Everything that has been said and done
I see them all hovering by my head ghosts of things lost
I see them hovering away from my grasping fingers
I feel their heavy cost

Love so sweet kisses stolen in secret
Lost so quickly a heart broken laid down in defeat  
Hope so bright, light shining through the darkest night
Crushed cruelly snuffed out, a child’s broken kite
Trust given freely, at last the shield was laid down
Tossed into the sea of misery, left to down
Dreams flying free as strong as can be
Shot down by a jealous cannon to  fulfill the envious need  

I sit and I watch, I remember and my heart I clutch
A tear falls from my eye, as I remember all the lies
But then I rise, I move to watch the sunrise
The past is dead and I have paid my price  
I stand and I welcome the sunrise.
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