there are so many of you
that i would love to sit down with;
maybe over a milkshake and a plate of fries;
and just talk.
i want to ask you about the boy that hurt you,
about the anger you feel deep inside
over a father who said he’d come back...
and then didn’t.
i want to run with you through pages of words and say
“oh that’s right, what a lovely metaphor.”
i want to see all your smiling faces and
thank each and every one of you for showing me kindness,
for saving my life.
i want to collaborate on novels of poetry
and laugh with you through the tears of our pasts.
so until we sip those milkshakes and eat those fries...
thank you, to
some of the most beautiful people i have never met.

Am tired of this world that wants me to be perfect,
I make mistakes and people look at me like am the worst creature alive,
Friends want me to be the cool guy, my girl wants me to own mansions and drive,
my mum wants me to study anything there is to study and still survive,
everyone  expects the best from me and classmates call me low class,
My maths  teacher calls me a fool and still expects me to pass
Today they laugh with me, tomorrow they me show their back
Their presence is known because they always bark, they work hard to see you in their back,
Am just tired of this world.

A world where humans make weapons to silence others
A world where Love is a myth and people don’t value their brothers,
Men like playing hit and run leaving single mothers,
The whites hate the black, the black worship the white,
Those telling Africans the truth are forced to hold back.

Dreams bounce and come back .
Nothing has stopped except your lack.
Lack of faith. Lack of hope.
You get one Grace of love
Even got a jump.

You can do this.
You do have faith.
You do have what it takes.
To be a mother

No matter what they say
No matter the doubt you believe.
You have what it takes
To be a mother.

Thoughts running through,
My body and mind split in two,
My mind never still always in motion.
My head is a mess like a storm on the ocean.
I feel like a fish caught in a net,
I need all the help I can get.
My body is still, almost dead,
Just laying here hopeless in my bed.
My body and my mind are torn,
All life in my eyes are gone.

I fell in the stream once
Walking along its banks
My brother hanging from
A branch
Reached down and saved
Me from drowning

I fell from a branch of a tall
Oak once
On my head my lungs
Emptied

I stepped on a snake in
The forest barefoot
I and it went separate ways
Fast

I kissed a girl
Touched her rigid *******
Felt her receptiveness
But we parted

I've walked mountain tops
Camped in valleys
Slept in haylofts
In castle towers

Been seen in bars in
Parlors of sin
In druglords
Dreams

I've ridden horses
And been thrown
I've conquered
And been overthrown

But come the morning
Some day soon
The world will
Know me as it should

I shall rise from decadence
My head above
The rest my crown
Shall be

But Brown
Leaves and pieces
Of grass
And smallest

Treasures of this world
Will be golden
When I reach
This epitome

And peace will rule
And love resound
And people
Hold hands

The world
Around.

Then
I will smile.