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513 · Jan 2017
Black nor white
Emmanuel Coker Jan 2017
…With her, he chose to see a colourful future

And with him, she chose to remain colorblind.
Emmanuel Coker Oct 2014
Someone once asked me

Why are your poems so dark?
Why is your light so black?
Why is your face so sad?
And why are you so clad?
If you die tonight, would you be glad?
To give your life up, and raise the white flag...
Do you seldom feel like to pack your bags?
Just up and leave, because your life is a ***?
Do you do these things because you miss your dad?
You feel a little bit close to him as you write about death on your pad?
Do you think you deserve less than you've had?
Or you think your good will outweigh the bad?

This someone never felt the need to know the answers to this questions
This someone knew the answers, hearing them would be like a priest hearing his own confessions
This someone wasn't a he, this someone wasn't a she
This someone was me
502 · Sep 2015
All I Need
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2015
Let them keep their big *****
Let them keep their fat bums
Let them keep their curvy waists
Let them keep their pretty face
Let them keep their swaggy taste
Let them keep their long hair
Let them keep their pointy nails
Let them keep their glowing skin
Let them keep their materialistic things
Let them keep their all baby
'*** In truth...you are all I need
And I love you just the way you are
498 · Dec 2014
Runaway bride
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2014
Like a ship
I watched you leave the shores of my heart
And with the tides in your favour
You sailed and never looked back

But then....your ship sank :p
497 · Jun 2015
Untitled
Emmanuel Coker Jun 2015
And if we are not meant to be
Why then do you mean so much to me
Us not being together is something I just can't see
So please tell me you'd be home just in time for tea....
490 · Nov 2017
Hold on
Emmanuel Coker Nov 2017
I'll hold on to the memories unsaid,

Back then,
When we laid unclad on the bed,
Back then,
When it was an euphoric moment we shared,
Back then,
When you wished you were with me instead,
Back then,
When I thought I'd love you till the death,
Back then,
When the scenes played back in my head,
Back then,
When he came and took you instead.

I'll hold on to the memories we shared.
477 · Jul 2017
A New Look
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2017
It's a good thing I guess
Now you can focus on yourself
You probably deserve to be treated better
You guys weren't meant to be together
That's what I hear when they notice the sad gloomy face I wear.
I guess a heartbreak gives you a certain kind of look. Your face is colored by pain and regrets, regardless of how hard you try to hide it. People would still notice. But why wouldn't they?
When your happiness is gone. The real reason for why your face is always lit. A message from that special person sends your heart beating twice as fast. It's that adrenaline rush you get from getting to see their glorious smile outshining the sun on the brightest of days. The warmth feel of their hands wrapped around you in a hug, that feeling of knowing there's nowhere else you'd rather be than with them at that present moment. But when all of this is gone, there would be a new tone to your face, a new look….that makes people know something is right.
I wear a smile to disguise my look, I smile as often as I can. I tend to push thoughts of you out of my mind knowingly. It's the only thing I can do if I'm to wear my new look without people knowing what's up. I miss you a whole lot. But now it wouldn't show on my face anymore. And if I'm to meet you again?...you would be greeted with my new look and I'll hope you like it.
476 · Oct 2014
Tale
Emmanuel Coker Oct 2014
A tale to you I tell
From the inner depths of hell
To a woman's clutches I fell
Or should I call her a girl?
A rugged life I led,
Stealing from the rich I fled
With beautiful roses and pearls
Given to her with shells
From the inner depths of hell
A tale, to you I tell
462 · Nov 2017
Sweet tooth
Emmanuel Coker Nov 2017
She's the type of candy that gives every man that comes across her path a sweet tooth.
452 · Dec 2014
if you tell me i'm yours
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2014
If you tell me i'm yours
I'd love you even with all your flaws
If you tell me i'm yours
I'd die for your sins and carry your cross
If you tell me i'm yours
I'd defy the gods not considering the odds
If you tell me i'm yours
I'd make sure your needs always comes first
If you tell me you're mine
I'd bring to your table the finest of wines
If you tell me you're mine
I'd love you till the end of time
If you tell me you're mine
437 · May 2016
Incomplete head
Emmanuel Coker May 2016
If I die on my bed
Let it be said
That I was an incomplete head
Who awaited his death.
429 · Sep 2015
A litte bit of soul
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2015
There's a little bit of us that leaves with someone who we once shared emotions with...someone who we cared so deeply for, someone who meant so much to us. This little bit of us leaves and seldom comes back to us. It's a little bit of soul.

Should it be seen as a parting gift?, something you leave with them for them to remember you with?, or maybe it's just that part of you that just really wanted to be with them and thus cuts itself from you and goes on to live with them. I really don't know what it is.
There's a bit of me in you,.....should you find someone new, please do endeavour to lead my soul home.
419 · May 2015
Later Days
Emmanuel Coker May 2015
And maybe in my later days
I'd tell you how much I loved you so
And maybe in my later days
I'd come to terms for letting you go
And maybe in my later days
Yours would be a name I used to know

And maybe in YOUR later days
You'd see me as a friend and not your foe
Thanking your stars for dodging a bullet that came so close
And I pray you know love....more sweeter than anyone ever knows
And then, maybe in our later days we'd cherish the little moment we both were close.
415 · Oct 2014
The Twilight
Emmanuel Coker Oct 2014
The sky grows dark
As the the sun cowers out of sight
A drip, three drips falls
As the rain wets our head
A step, two steps in
Our hands clutched in an embrace
A thought, just one shared
We kiss in the rain
One heart, two heart breaks
Love is not meant for us all
Freed clutch, burning sun
The end, alas is upon us
My darling thanks for all
Goodbye comes with a fall
405 · May 2016
Dearest mother
Emmanuel Coker May 2016
Dearest mother.

When you were young
And your mother sang to you, lullaby songs
You knew there was nothing to fear
For you had all your mother's care
You suckled on her succulent breast
And laid your bare head on her evermore protective chest
She'd pat your back and start to sing
As her melodious voice, lures you to sleep
She prays to osun to keep you safe
And begs orunmila to try to save,
You from any trouble you see in your dreams,
& help you every day, whichever way it seems
And as you grow
Little do you know
All your mother has been through
All just because of you.
388 · Sep 2014
Deception's Depth
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2014
With a hopeful soul and a yearning heart
I asked if you wanted me
With a thought or maybe none
You told me what I needed to hear
With a broken soul, and a lonely heart
I asked if you'd love me back
And with a smile not sewn with candor
You told me sweet lies
I have loved and I have yearned
For your love to be mine till death
I've been fooled and cajoled
As your love was like a fool's gold
But never, never would I ask of a thing from you
For with a cunning smile and an in-depth deception
You would only tell me what you think I need to hear
But, I would've preferred just one bitter truth
To a thousand lies that spoke about a dead love
383 · Feb 2015
Untitled
Emmanuel Coker Feb 2015
I'm sorry if all I do is stare,
At your wounded heart, 'cos I never bothered to care

You said he hurt you again.
He made you feel things, much more worse than pain
He punched and slapped, and kicked and swore
He hit you so hard,i could have sworn he broke your jaw
I felt the need to rise and fight
But at that moment, it just didn't feel right
This was a cause that wasn't mine
And I, as always felt you'd do just fine
A couple of hits, a couple of beats
Would never in hell, take you down to the pit
But I was wrong
You were not strong

Your funeral was last three weeks
And as I stared at your grave I felt really weak
My eyes gave in and started to leak
Your death taught me all I ever needed was just to speak
Wrote this for a friend, her boyfriend always abused her, I tried warning her, but she always wore this face that spelt brave, I figured she'd be just fine.....she was not
378 · Dec 2014
Think True
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2014
The truth still remains,
All sins are all the same
Be it one that brought you gain
Or one that brought you fame

We all walk our different lane
And in the end bear only our father's name
The truth might drive you insane
Or even bring unwanted blames
The truth might bring immense pain
But then it would never make you maim

Instead it strengthens you
Makes you feel free and truly true
You conquer your struggles and other obstacles you might go through
You stand a wise man and not the fool
And when you stay true
You aren't making decisions for one, but for two
One is yourself, the other is for the rest of the few
The rest of the few who wants to feel new

So don't think twice, don't think it through
All you just gotta do is think TRUE
378 · Nov 2018
For Jane.
Emmanuel Coker Nov 2018
I'd write you letters,
But you won't write back,
I'd send you flowers,
But you don't fancy that,
I'd beg you to come over,
We both fancy that.

You'd push me over,
But I don't push back,
You've got many lovers,
And I don't fancy that,
I had only one lover,
But she didn't want me back,
And whenever you come over,
It gets more fancier.
364 · Jul 2017
Love
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2017
I was your real FIRST love
And you were my first REAL love...
             There's a difference between those
364 · Jan 2017
10W
Emmanuel Coker Jan 2017
10W
A
Broken
Heart
Often
Breeds
The
Purest
Form
Of
Art
I like to think so.....
354 · Feb 2015
Untitled
Emmanuel Coker Feb 2015
People who have made their money, tie those who haven't made their money down by 'how' they made their money. Now to be frank, I think they have no choice but to be tied down, however, they can choose how strong the knot would and should be....and hence get a chance to make their money, in order to tie others down. It's a never ending cycle :)
347 · Nov 2018
New Beginnings.
Emmanuel Coker Nov 2018
I make so many new beginnings,
I doubt there'd ever be an end.

My life’s script keeps changing,
‘Guess the writer is getting over his head.

My new beginnings don't come with the seasons, They are conceived as soon as they wish, and I am convinced as soon as they reach.

I make so many new beginnings,
I don't know where the old ones went.

And once I'm off track on my new path,
I just switch lanes and draft up a new chart.
Follow me on instagram @that_lazy_writer
342 · Nov 2018
Nights like this.
Emmanuel Coker Nov 2018
On nights like this,
My baby is finger-licking delicious.
She makes my fingers fill with honey, sweet honey, wet honey, as she **** for me.
Don't take a peek into her honey ***,
It's fiery red inside.
It's bakery hot inside.
On nights like this,
My baby is blazing red fire,
And I'm glistening dark skin bathed in our sweat,
My hands call for her body as they glue onto her skin, her being calls for an ****** and now she's holding on tight to the bed sheets.
The bed sheets, soaked bed sheets, I lay a peck on my baby's *******, so ****, so tempting, I slowly commence the “prone bone”.
On nights like this,
My baby is jaw dropping gorgeous whenever she's on her kneels.
I grunt and I puff, but my baby is a musical genius. And If I were to be serious,
On nights like this,
My baby is the only one I'd be with.
340 · May 2018
Anymore.
Emmanuel Coker May 2018
You were giving me up,
While I was giving you love.
You tore mine apart,
While I gave you my whole heart.
Now I'm left with the pieces,
Rearranging the words I'm using,
Hoping it passes a clear message,
That you aren't the one I'm missing, and I'm not the only one that feels this ended too soon, but I'd hold my peace and not talk about this- anymore.
338 · Jul 2017
Cry poetry
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2017
When my heart bleeds
And I can't sleep
I cry poetry

When I feel sad
Or I get mad
I cry poetry

When I laugh hard
And my tummy hurts terribly bad
I cry poetry

When I lose faith
In my unknown fate
I cry poetry

And as I sit here
Without you here
I cry poetry
334 · Sep 2014
Queen of Theives
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2014
I saw her first under the sunlight rays
Her beautiful face, sparkling like a silver plate
On my bed I counted for days
Sometimes daydream and fall asleep late
Crucify me, for her sins I will pay
Oh!, what has befallen me, an ill luck fate??
She stole my heart, and for that I won't cease
To stop calling her the queen of thieves
328 · Apr 2015
10w
Emmanuel Coker Apr 2015
10w
And when they say love is sweet....
Don't believe them.
325 · Sep 2014
The Other side
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2014
It's warm and cosy on the other side
I just can't wait for the time i'll die
To escape from this prison called life
Would I have to fight to survive?
The place i would be going to has no strife
No pain, no strain in the afterlife
Souls wandering in blissful unison
Making merry and dancing jolly under the sun

It's tiresome to stay here
Living life in the very grasp of fear
Faking smiles to hide your tears
It is better on the other side I swear
I don't know about heaven or hell
For theses are just stories we tell
But I know this much is true
When I go, i'll go with few
And love I pray, remains with you
323 · Nov 2018
For Rachael
Emmanuel Coker Nov 2018
Right here,
Right now,
With you.

There's nowhere else,
I'd rather be.
323 · Feb 2015
Misguided Directions....
Emmanuel Coker Feb 2015
Here is where?
Where is there?

There is here
And where is right here
Errr....say I was bored, got writers block, so if you can add something else to it....pls don't hold back. thank you
296 · Jul 2017
The One
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2017
For the one that is to come,
Please stay.
I can be a very hard person to love, I know.
But my darling hey,
You would be the only one I'd cherish
My eyes would only have sights for you
My hands would only hold your heart in them
My mouth would speak only of your love
For the one that is to come,
Please stay.
I can be very annoying sometimes, I know.
But my darling hey,
I'd always apologize for my flaws
I'd love you till kingdom comes
And even though love is never always enough,
We would always be enough for each other.
For the one that is to come,
Please stay.
How many tries till we get it right?
292 · Sep 2014
Sing a Song
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2014
Sing a song
For our heroes past
Our wars they fought for long
Our cries fuelled their thirst
Oh young lads, mourn and beat the gong
For death came for them all at last

Sing a song
For our ***** friends
Our pains they felt
Broken hearts they mend
And with their radiant smile
For us they could walk a thousand mile

Sing a song
For our daring mothers
Nine months they strived
Death, they might have bribed
Watching us crawl brought tears to their eyes
And their only goal, is to watch us rise

Sing a song
For our now leaders
Promises they made before gotten desires
Our sweats for cars, villas, and empires
Oh ye children are the leaders of tomorrow
But still, we are inflicted with pains and sorrows
Greed comes with a blind fold, disguising who to follow
But let's just keep calm, and hope for a better tomorrow
289 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2017
Hot knife through butter
That is how easy it is to hurt
Hot knife dipped inside cold water
Relief, but scars remains from the cut.
These wounds heal and pain subsides
But you can't ignore the damage that has been done inside
A heart bleeds and a mind mourns
The death of love, never to be seen and long gone
No notes....
286 · Oct 2014
Untitled
Emmanuel Coker Oct 2014
I am committed to the cause
I have since...closed those opened doors
Rules are meant to be broken....and thus;
I won't hesitate to break those laws

I will strive to reach my goal
And maybe in the process try not to sell my soul
'cos it's been rumoured to be worth more than gold
Ionno man.....that is just what I've been told

In the name of the father, we curse people's sons
And joke with the holy spirit, as if it's any fun
I will rise to stand against the sun
And hope for my love's sake, I don't get burned
283 · Sep 2014
Base
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2014
A lonely night with no stars in the sky
I lay upright on my bed with a smile
I finally did it, took the first step of a mile
Now the journey ahead is nothing short of a trial
Goodnight my love,... its time for me to rest

A lonely land with no soul in place
I would wander until I get to base
My suicide note lies under the vase
With nothing more than a pleading case
Three slashes on my wrist, made me go with ease
And my last thoughts, were of the daughters of eve
Heartbreak causes an eminent goodbye
For now, my lots would do nothing but cry
"To the great beyond" I said "in luxury style"
Goodbye my love,... its time for me to die
279 · Sep 2018
Sexual healing
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2018
Give me that ****** healing,
The type that takes me to the ceiling,
The type that leaves me hot and chilling,
The type that makes me want this feeling.

Give me that ****** healing,
Early in the morning, noon or evening,
Your *** leaves me with a tingling,
It's sweeter than any spice or seasoning.

I’d give you that ****** healing,
I'll make you want more when you see me
I'd **** your brains out like I mean it.
The end of this would be the beginning.
278 · Oct 2018
Scarce commodity.
Emmanuel Coker Oct 2018
And if happiness is free,
Then freedom is a currency I can't currently afford.
278 · Dec 2017
Untitled
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2017
I swore to make you happy
I swore to make you laugh
I was never last to say sorry
Even when you made me mad
Ours was the perfect story
You and I, the perfect cast
The love you gave was glory
But alas, good things never last
I know you'd say you loved me
But that was only in the past.
275 · May 2018
Eternal rest
Emmanuel Coker May 2018
I'd e'er wait for eternal rest,
Wearing my possible best,
Not knowing whether-
I've failed or passed the eternal-
Test.
                                      
Or maybe it's all an eternal jest
But who gets the last laugh?    
It's whose god, Me or him, I guess?
274 · Jul 2017
Untitled.
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2017
Something I've learnt
Through all the time I've spent
Is that you can be a nice guy
Give your all to the limit of knowing you tried
You can love with all your might
Swear to God you'd fight
For that special one
Overlook all the wrong they've done
You can be kind to a fault
Answer yes to everything, no 'buts'
But still get the short end of the stick
And that just makes me really sick
266 · Dec 2017
Consequences
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2017
Self righteousness would be the doom of us all,
We are quick to judge without proper explanation given to us. If it looks bad then it is bad, and if it looks good then it is good. No grey lines. Just black and white.
In trying to protect ourselves we hurt others,
Some would call it the casualty of war.
Our story defines complications.
Your sin is permissible because it is your sin,
Mine is not because it isn't yours,
So you'd stare and gnarl at me,
And commence to throw that sin on me.
It is your way not the highway,
Your view has to be the last say,
Because you view yourself to be a better saint.
263 · Dec 2017
Father of three
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2017
I'm a father of three
A girl and two boys
My wife left me
For a much younger boy
She said he's got stunning abs
I really do hope he knows she's got *****,
Down underneath.

I'm a father of three
Two boys and a girl
And my wife cheats on me
With a boy named Emmanuel
He loves to play with her toys
And she ‘comes’ with immense joy

I'm a father of three
And my wife cheated on me
She won full custody
After she ****** my attorney.
I'm a father of three
And none of my children lives with me.
This poem is purely fictional, any appearance or semblance to any real life entity is purely and absolutely coincidental. Enjoy :).
261 · Dec 2017
Hi
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2017
Hi
She is Art
And she is a masterpiece.
We are all art and we are various living, breathing masterpieces in our ramifications. Happy holidays :).
236 · Dec 2017
It's on nights like this...
Emmanuel Coker Dec 2017
It's on nights like this I miss you,
Fingers glued to the phone, waiting to text you,
You are on my contact list, but there's an issue,
We don't talk anymore, so there's no way to get through,

It's on a night like this I kissed you.

We don't talk anymore, so I can't get through,
You are on my contact list, but we've got issues,
Fingers glued to the phone, hoping to text you,
That it's on nights like this I hopelessly miss you.
Love isn't love when reason finally prevails...
235 · Oct 2018
In all honesty...
Emmanuel Coker Oct 2018
And If I were to be honest,
I'd say I do miss you,
The times we spent together,
and the memories we shared.
It's actually crazy now, Thinking about it,
How I never had a picture of us, I was always the one who'd shy away from the camera, and instead take pictures of you.
You always looked so calm yet distant.
Maybe locked away in the universe of books you've read stored in your head.
But I was glad you were with me. Regardless of how distant we were from the outside world. We were alone together.
That was all I ever wanted. That is all I…
No.
And if i am to be honest,
A year isn't enough to get over you.
That doesn't mean I'd come crawling back to you. We crossed that bridge and burnt it.
But I keep searching for you in other women, Hoping to see a glimpse of you.
No matter how little.
But I guess it's what makes you different,
Because you were different from the rest.
Left to me, you were the best.
228 · Jul 2018
Never Ending.
Emmanuel Coker Jul 2018
What is this blinding light?
What is the meaning of life?
If I was born to survive in a world that eventually succumbs to death.

Who was asked to be created?
I wouldn't mind to be sedated.
To sleep through all this and wake up to be greeted with a happy belated, and they tell me I made it past Armageddon and the world is never ending, it actually just begun.
217 · Sep 2018
What is love?
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2018
It isn't love if,                                              
You have control over it,
Your heart doesn't skip a beat,
Your mind isn't losing it,
The pain doesn't hurt like ****

The feeling isn't something you'd miss,  

It isn't love if you have control over it.
209 · Sep 2018
To keep trying.
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2018
I keep on dying,
Because I love to live,
Sometimes it's hard to keep on trying,
When there's nothing left to give.

But I keep on dying,
Because I long to live-
A fruitful life, filled with joy and wealth,
A happy life void of pain nor death,
And I keep on trying,
Despite how it may not seem.

And one day, I'd be the one dying,
After a fruitful life that I've lived.
197 · Sep 2018
Hopeful hope.
Emmanuel Coker Sep 2018
I hope you find love at the end of the day,
I hope the love you find decides to stay,
I hope the love you find gets found today,
I hope the love you find blows you away,
I hope the love you find is like the one you make.
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