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Oct 2016 · 841
Holy Grail
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
Sometimes I wish I had done things otherwise
I wish I had just cheered you when you supposed
that you loved me, I wish I had just led you on…
But I don’t regret, even if I had the chance to rewind
the clock, I’d still guarantee that we wouldn’t work
because it’s not only true but also the right thing to do…
You are a holy grail every lad wishes they would get
and am just a lad you would soon forget
I just protected you from the guilt of having pulled the
trigger by taking the bullet out of the chamber
even before you learnt how to use the rifle.
Oct 2016 · 962
But
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
But
If you can't find the things you Love,*
Love the things you find...
Oct 2016 · 379
Beautiful Poet
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
she's as beautiful as her pieces
sadly she'll never know
that I hold her with high regard, no
she'll never know I yearn for her kisses
Oct 2016 · 877
One Night
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
"It's just one night",
said the Sun at last light
to the bird in flight.
Oct 2016 · 382
His dreams were
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
only possible impossibilities
to burn the sun and soak the Ocean
to sweeten Honey and value money
to freeze ice and melt water
to heat the desert a little hotter,
to empty the vacuum
his dreams were nightmares
Oct 2016 · 834
My Everything
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
Maybe someday the hard I try
and the tears I cry
will be for someone else…
Maybe someday
the miles I walk
and the journeys I make
will be for someone else
Maybe someday
the dawns I watch
the splendid view of the ocean
the clear nights filled with stars
will be with someone else
can’t be sure,
even the kisses
the wounds and scars
inflicted by someone else…
Maybe someday I'll be
enduring cold nights,
making up after fights
and enjoying felicitous dances
in twinkling disco lights
with someone else...
Maybe someday
the one I call my Mrs.
will be someone else.
You never know,
they say life's what happens
contrary to our plans
but until life happens,
you are my everything…
Oct 2016 · 273
A matter Of Time
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
It may take a million years*
But someday someone'll see the love beneath my tears
Oct 2016 · 276
Try
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
Try
Each time I log in, I straight away leap into my inbox
Like a hungry wounded fox
which I scan a million times just to be sure
Particularly when your name isn’t among the unread
Then I attempt refreshing the page imagining there’s
a message awaiting to pop up…
I don’t do this because I am impatient, which I occasionally am
But because I think you love me by almost an equal measure
and think you understand how painful missing you really feels…
Try it sometimes, try missing you and see the hell it puts me through
Try missing those eyes that glow brighter than sapphire
Eyes that are an insult to the sparkle of the stars,
yet unto the glow of the full moon an infuriating satire
Try missing those soft palms that used to hold to mine
and bloom in me ornaments of valour and comfort
Try a day without your stunning lips that I’d only cease to kiss
when my lungs in envy compelled me to gasp for breath
since you are a jewel that my shackled heart wont share with
anyone, not even my distraught mind
try missing your perfume, your orchestral voice
maybe then you’ll understand better when I say I have no choice…
try persevering the pain the other person in my mirror bears
seeing yet unable to touch you, near yet so far
it’s like Moses’ grief when yards away lay the promised land
he couldn’t reach, not even by the help of his sea splitting magical wand…
the bottom line is I miss you, I miss me…but the thing I miss most is “us”.
love lonesome missingyou hurt
Oct 2016 · 466
I TooK You iN
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
I took you in when you were stuck in the rain
Eroded by a downpour, your fragrance ornamenting the drain
Lost in tumultuous thoughts that caused you a pain
which threatened to totally drive you insane
unable to remember that the world was once beautiful and sunny
I took you in when you were giving up your journey
far from your purpose, deadbeat and completely out of money
I took you in when no joke in this world could be funny
you were a withered rose drenched by a torrent of tears
distrusting, odious and cloaked in crimson fears
In quest of comfort from draining bottles of beers
endeavouring to wash off reminiscences of futile years
You supposed none noted no matter how loud you’d shout
and were a violent wind that salutes a storm, a cyclone up and about
I took you in when you were overflowing with doubt,
When everyone had kicked you out, I took you in
I took you in, when you were a caving void within
but the instant the world took you back you kicked me out.
Sep 2016 · 464
iT wiLL raIN
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2016
Life’s a hula-hoop, what goes around comes back around…
you don’t need to alter to move, you don’t need to walk away to move on.
Some go as far as half way across the sphere and remain right
where they were shattered to smithereens, some go and leave their hearts behind.
Even at constant, things change. You may mean nothing to somebody at the moment
but what if I tell you rumour has it that someday you might be everything
Even scientists claim Mother Nature was once nothing, and from nonentity ensued the big bang…
I used to dispute this theory so much so bad…but now I realize nothing’ll ever be more true…
someday a big bang is going to happen in a heart of the very person
to whom you are but an oblivious void of transparent obstruction and
a consequent profound alteration…You’ll turn out to be their cosmos,
the stratum of your mouth will be a vista they wish to osculate,
the glow of your lips a dawn they crave in the chilly twilight of their solitude
and your eyes will sparkle like the stars in the sky of the future they dream about…
They’ll stutter in chills for you’ll be so cool, an ice age they’ll wish they’d skied through
while they had the chance, yet again a supernatural cause of global warming,
so hot that they’ll sweat, by radiation the gamma rays of hot passion will pierce
through the weak walls of their hitherto frozen hearts and as a result,
the tectonic plates holding their souls will release, and consequently
a quake of an unimaginable magnitude will send them head over hills.
As if that’s not enough, a labyrinthine volcano will erupt at the peak of their pride,
the “Lover” will flow with them back down to earth, residual effects will be felt even when miles away…
On the wind ward side of a resultant Everest of regret, up the skies of their eyes
will linger copious clouds of grief and everyday it will rain.
The crop of their esteem will be washed in the flood of the moment
And in hunger they’ll ravenously gobble their words,
Get on their knees and ask you to be their rainbow…
Sep 2016 · 331
Moving On
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2016
Is it forgiving or forgetting?
Is it finding another?
or just letting go of the other?
What is moving on?
Sep 2016 · 837
I Would
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2016
I would go through the hurt again
if it meant having you back in my life
I would still believe your beautiful words
even after I have learnt that none of them were true
I would still smile at how perfectly  you constructed them
well aware that the joy was just a thing of the moment
because that short spell of joy was like an eternity to my soul.

I would use the same road whence our
encounter happened,
I would... I would still ask you out
without a single doubt


I would, not because I enjoy pain
not because I pleasure in my despondence
not because I prefer the past to the future
No,
It's because you lit a flame in me
that even after you extinguished our passion
still shines bright... you made me believe in myself
you gave me a friend and made me feel safe
you gave me a whole new dimension
to live my life, the only downside being
you are not here to share in the glory
of my self-discovery.
Sep 2016 · 1.5k
I was Willing
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2016
I was willing to try, even if it meant I would cry
I was willing to lose a tear to always have you here
I was willing to play with fire, to ride on a loose tire
even if at the thought my heart skipped a beat
I was willing to endure the Heat...
I was Willing
Sep 2016 · 695
Post To be
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2016
Forever's a burden that none deserves to bear alone...
I wanted to share it with you, i waited for the perfect moment
to let you know but sadly I lost you with the winds of the wait,
patience was my biggest mistake,
the worst business I ever invested in because
I was told patience is one of those ventures that pays...
Maybe like they famously say; not all good
business students make great business minds
and not all successful opportunities ultimately succeed.
I loved you, I love you and I believe loving you is my future career.
I know it's a tiring job but again, what job is easy?
I choose to be your slave even if you will never know for
you will always see the rays of my undying orb of affection and care,
like the evening Sun after it's been eaten by
the canker-worm of twilight,
but you might never know I am the one lighting the way.
You will always be somebody that means the planet to me,
because you and I are post to be.
Sep 2016 · 327
Us
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2016
Us
So many words I shoulda said
yet only silence chose to pop up...
apparently he knew even if I used
words you wouldn't understand us.
Aug 2016 · 884
Mistakes
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
A mistake is valuable
once you learn from it.
Never regret one that
taught you so much
in fact make more

mistakes, learn
more lessons.
Aug 2016 · 385
The Foolish
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Too many wise men,
the foolish don't know whom
to believe.
Aug 2016 · 420
For You
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
There was a time I'd die for you...
A time I'd take bullets for you...
But now, now I can even rot
for you... it's always and
always
will be you...
Aug 2016 · 429
Thoughts
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
When birds cease to fly
When eyes cease  to cry
When butts cease to sit
When hearts cease to beat
when the nimbus cease to rain
When wounds cease to pain
When hinges cease to swing
When bees cease to sting
When snow cease to chill
When scars start to heal
When  romantics cease to fall
When humans lose the soul
When flowers cease to bloom
When Sadness brings no gloom
When brides have no groom
When the economy ceases to boom
When drums cease to sound, and the globe, round
When another passion's found
And your beauty's ceased to astound
I'll find another, trust me I'll do
and totally forget about you
thoughts about you do haunt
For you have my heart but someday soon you won't
Aug 2016 · 763
A minute
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Am not asking you for a lifetime
I just need a minute, cause
a minute with you is eternity
Aug 2016 · 814
The Born Again Lass
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
The good news is she's single,
the bad is she's so in love with
Jesus
Her body's an alloy of the Holly spirit and Soil
Yet temples are a place I only
go to to have a chitchat with my Lord God
Not to profess my affection.
*I love her, but I can't compete
with the creator's Son.
I love her, but I love Heaven more.
Aug 2016 · 631
Discovery
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Am a lost pearl wallowing
underneath the mire of a romance
gone bad, but whoever finds
that pearl, whoever pushes the
healing hand beyond the sheath
of doubt will find the treasure
lying there, for in the pit of
desolation looms a great
treasure, a breath taking
Discovery.
Aug 2016 · 357
Right
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
When it's the right person
None will tell you it is, you
won't need to ask

instead when it's that person
it'll be you telling everyone*
that you finally found her.
Aug 2016 · 4.0k
Long Gone
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Babe I hate to even think soon I'll be long gone
that destiny's a painter and the art is bold drawn
it hurts we have to part now that we're all grown
it's a sting we waited for this moment only for I to leave town
hurts that I can't change it, cuts I needs a bandage
***** harder than *******, cause I know that you won't manage
our happy song's now a dirge, unreal like a mirage
who'll get me to my feet when am parting with my clutch
me frowned at the news but none could listen to my views
guess I'll always end up trapped in a wrong place
always emerge a victor in a wrong race
I tried to appeal but karma won the case
what else will be scenic like dawn clutching to your dress
I hate to lose that smile cause it's a milli not a mile
and

I'm aware....
when life takes me away...
Tears may come your way...
Babe hope you know I pray...
That you don't cry for me...
Please don't cry for me...


I pray you find warmth in some other way
Can't promise we'll still feel us from a million miles away
but I think I'll think about you every other day
never doubting your love, that I totally swear
I'll be present in every moment albeit I won't be there
when your skies are clear and when the skies are grey
I'll be the silhouette somewhere twixt your heart and soul melting
the snow of your confusion and fears to keep your existence at bay
Please don't cry, please try...
try to think about us without a tear
try to plough your way through the fear
don't be lost in the Sea of loneliness
Hope are the sails, life's a boat to steer
Am not saying you should bottle up the melancholy
it's alright to breakdown at such doldrums, it's okay
I just wish sadness was food that you'd ship for me
or an ***** I'd mute the speakers, or stop to play
I wish life was a symphony, so that we choose harmony
I hate that the sad song of our looming reality is in production
and that it will soon be ready for karma to play, with such affection
I loathe that you're bound to listen when we're missing
I hate that I carry this worry to the hay role right from kissing
and this affection's starting to feel more of a curse than a blessing

*Cause I'm aware...
when life takes me away...
Tears may come your way...
Babe hope you know I pray...
That you don't cry for me...
Please don't cry for me...
Aug 2016 · 272
Heart Knows
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Choose Your heart
over your
mind
no matter
the kind
of resultant hurt.*
The Heart knows why,
You don't have to
understand.
Aug 2016 · 698
Maybe
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Maybe I'll find you somewhere along this road
fatigued, exhausted yet still going the Toad
Like I do in sleeplessness while counting sheep
and in my freaking dreams soon as I slip into sleep
Maybe I'll find you sky high Soaring like the eagles
under the hit of excess Hennessey or wine
with a symptomatic drinking rash worse than Measles
trying to find that illusive equilibrium many call fine
starting fights and breaking bottles in bars
within and without bearing untold pain from wounds and scars
battling to dissuade desolation by pushing
out with the very rich fat bellied man driving posh cars
wearing a gorgeous mask of a smile, exasperated by whatever he does...
Maybe I'll find you locked up in a library with a pile of novels
trying to evade the absurd sting of reality, a big pile, bibles
maybe I'll find you on a boulevard lost in the labyrinth of your psyche
or scrolling through your Facebook account for stuff you like
and you'll coincidentally collide with me and ignite the spark
like it happens in the movies, or maybe we'll meet in the park
when you are out with your girlfriends for little leisure
and in that instant I'll know you're the long time coveted treasure
maybe I'll find you in the night along a strategic point
watching the twinkle of stars and glowing mesmer of the moon
or maybe we'll shelter at the same shed evading April showers
and sprout will, your smile with the aura of the red rose flowers
or maybe we'll find us at my birthday party sometime in June
who's to tell, maybe we'll meet battling devils in the same Hell
or just trail the mucus of mutuality,snails of a shell
birds of a feather, maybe that's how plots of our stories come together
to start the long tiring Great Trek to that place they call Forever
or maybe we'll meet at the beach whilst we're exploring deep ends
or just at the neighbourhood right where the Tarmac bends
it might even be on twitter while tracking numerous trends
and from a heated argument end up being close friends
it may probably result from dialing wrong numbers
or back at the countryside tending to adjacent shambas
it could be in a night club grooving to new hits
lusting for intimidating yet amorous thighs exposed underneath your long slits
maybe I'll find you at my workplace, holding the latch
or on that Sunday I'll rejuvenate my spirit for prayers and church
I can't really tell where, or when... but I know you're out there
waiting, hoping, praying... anxious to an extent of doubting God's care
but I'll find you in one corner of this massive small earth
I'll find you and we'll consequently find us...
Aug 2016 · 2.4k
U
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
U
What's your favourite
        letter
               in the Alphabet..?
because out of the 26
                   I totally Love "U"!
Aug 2016 · 345
Hugs
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
it's my dream to comfort the
world... I only wish I had big
arms to hug all in desolation...
for that would bring me too
warmth to survive this
ice age in my soul*
melting away all
the snow in my
heart.
Aug 2016 · 351
LosT
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Loneliness is not just when
your dream girl is someone's
reality...
It's more than that... it's realising that your radar is welded to
another ship,it's the sting
of the awareness that you're
doomed to wallow in that
fantasy forever in vain.
it's knowing she's
promised to someone
but sadly that person isn't

*YOU

Loneliness is the Soul's
desolation when its
perfect mate is Lost.
Aug 2016 · 438
Restless
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
we all have that something
we want to forget but always
remember...*
and that we cherish
and want to
remember
yet never do
Philosophy comes to me in conversation/ chats with friends
Aug 2016 · 448
We
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
We
Won't be here to always tell the story,
right?
that's why rather than feeling sorry,
I write...
Aug 2016 · 723
Cyclonic
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
It was a story of
why and when
of now and then
of miles I ran
of mice and men
It was a story
of lost at Sea
of fantasy
with ecstasy
for the much I longed to see
in A-B-C
it was a story
of storms
broken homes
lost norms
silent gongs
rightful wrongs
it was a story of
strings and thongs
sweet unsung songs
of fractured bones
and forgotten bonds
it was a story of
wild fires to fend
scars to tend
the rigid to bend
a story of foe and friend
of consolation that does pend
of craft we didn't send
and of trying in vain to blend
It was a story hardly penned
for all who could "henned"
A cyclonic story
none could understand
why it didn't end...
Aug 2016 · 338
Mouthpiece
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Death is real...
You can never tell when you breathe your last...
so poems are my will...
**& mouthpiece when i return to mere dust
Aug 2016 · 305
Forget About Me
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
But never forget my philosophy for
the moment about the thing could
be the thing about the moment**
*Forget about me... but remember
my jungle rumble mumble jumbos
Aug 2016 · 246
Others
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
**** in their pants
while some
pant in their sheets
Aug 2016 · 306
EveryonE
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Said I'd find love again
Nobody mentioned the
reoccurrence of the pain

That's why I will
love Nobody forever.
*only Nobody is worth
the sacrifice
Aug 2016 · 658
Ejaculation
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Destiny's like ******* and
Life the Game of ***...
you may delay but can't
stop what's fated to ***...
Aug 2016 · 369
Flames Of Goodbye
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
When I breathe my very very last breath
succumbing to an inevitable defeat by death
take my corpse and place it upon very dry wood
cremate me and know that am gone for good
ensure you use very big and steady embers
so that I leave in a flame everyone remembers
then gather my ashes before winds start to blow
before the sky is dark or the moon and stars start to glow
before the worms of despondence feed on your hopes
and maggots start to infest my corpse.
collect those remains and pour me in a Lake or River
so that I can flow with the fountains forever
but if burning my corpse makes you quiver
and some oppose with a noise of the weaver
then bury me far far away beyond reach for the witch
hide my corpse like a rash of a stinging itch
where the hunter's hounds won't even reach
bury me deeper, even if it's by just an inch
bury me that very day and without delay
so that you won't have to sadly relay my corpse whilst a decay
this world is a thrill, but when am through hiking my hill
let me go, focus on the wounds and try to heal
maybe forget how you feel and let my grave be the seal
when I breathe in my very last and precious air
don't lose yourself in the old city of despair
Burn me, warm my soul with the flames my amigo
No matter the pain, when I breathe my last, let me go...
Aug 2016 · 334
Boomerangs
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Inevitably he walked north
Whilst she matched south
Taking comfort in the fact that
the world is round
& all they needed to do was
keep walking, for the more

distance they set behind them
the less they left ahead
And more likely they were
*to be with each other again.
Got the idea from
Fallen One's Love in Circles
Aug 2016 · 341
TearS
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Many years, you still ain't mine
*
No more tears, I'll be just fine
Aug 2016 · 282
Simple
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Choose what you love*
Love what you choose
Aug 2016 · 291
Much as
Aug 2016 · 607
Whilst
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
You waited for the perfect one
the rest were finding perfection
in their imperfect ones.*
You wanted to find the perfect
moment, they took the moment
and slowly weaved perfect to it.
Aug 2016 · 594
We are the Universe
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
People are not always what you see...
humanity is beyond visual, yet above the mental...
Humanity is a universe, with sands on beaches,
stars in the skies, truth and lies, different planets and galaxies...
Humanity is moons and moons and moons...
but most of all, humanity is you... So to judge me better,
look within you and judge yourself rather than what you see or hear... you are human, so  am I...
I am you, you are me... we are the universe...
Aug 2016 · 7.1k
My Stuff
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Say this Life's a bible and I am
Moses, could you perchance be
my Stuff and help me
strike the Sea of
loneliness apart?
Aug 2016 · 8.5k
SeemS
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Our souls met long before we
dreamt of ever setting eyes on
each other, otherwise why
does it feel like I've known
you for a thousand years?
Aug 2016 · 299
How will I?
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
How will I forget the much I remember?
How...
How will I burn the past that's clogging my now
And stop it from misting tomorrow?
How will I let go of the knot I'm holding on to?
How will I forget about everything
especially how you beautifully sing?
I guess I'll never know, just like you'll never understand.
Aug 2016 · 341
Remember
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
"Better days are coming," they say.
*But from which direction?
Aug 2016 · 281
Always
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Thought some things ain't
meant for people like me*
Turns out I was right
Aug 2016 · 340
Garden
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Am a Garden full of
weeds awaiting
the gardener
destined
to dig me...
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