Once upon a day in a lonely Restaurant
I ate my dose of contentment
Spreading my blessings on the cutlery
There came a man in an Apron of darkness
Matched with the devil's Hat
I saw the insect run for shelter
and the animals hide their heads
He took a sit in front of me
without words I knew i should run
I look up and saw a door in his eyes
shallow,tiny but opened
I wanted to explore
So I went in with desperation
leaving my Lamp behind
forgetting that he was total darkness!!!

Awelewa! The sound of her beads send waves to my ears
the softness of her palms as it create sweet melody from clapping
Orente Adumaradan the jewel in the eyes of her father
she has gotten the towns men losing their breath
they have been hypnotized by the melodies from her voice
each word she speaks falling with varieties of sweetness
and you my people have been deceived into believing she loves You
Oh what devilish smile!
Oh that irresistible wink!
When she leave town she goes with our heart in her pouch Aniokanlapo that what we call her. The one with heart in her pouch.

Her beauty is glowing but her people are dying. Even as they lament they want her
But she is the dark princess feeding only on their lusts

I feel the pain in my left chest
The one caused by an absence of what I don’t know
Could it be the absence of your pretty lies?
Or of the empty promises of your hands
The one that promise to take me to the aisle
To make me reach heaven on earth
No wonder you wouldn’t watch me cry
Because you knew an ocean of tears was in the future
Born of love and hatred
For this one fellow I could cut branches, let my guides down
For this one fellow risk were worth taken
Because i felt it was true
But barely knew we were through
Painful as it seems every memory was joyful
Because every action and words were of true intent
  Intent to love and to hurt

I remember the trip to the land of no return

The well that is more than 100 years old

The one story building belonging to the missionaries

A cubicle room that contain thousands of our forefathers

The chains,The castigations

The badagry Slave Trade Market

Then I imagine the pain,The wounds,

The rage that boils in their heart yet the white man shout "Apes obey"

How blacks betrayed blacks for coins,selling their birth right for breads

Truly independent is what we need

To the souls that were lost in battle I say "Peace"
55 years and here we are

To independence  of my Father's Land

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE NIGERIA

Emotions spilling out,tears flowing hard
Whatever is happening to the wall of strenght must have made it crumbled

Love has appeared and disappeared
And hatred is laughing at the love we shared!

The ones you packed the pieces and threw into my eyes
The one you use to raise me and drop me at my lowest

What now!  Do you want left from the pieces of a chattered heart like mine

Roses are dried now,there aren't no rain of season refreshing in me any more!

What now! What now! Do you want!

I wanna stop faking the smile                                                  I wanna start saying my mind                                               to my notepad at least can I pour my thought                      it is a world of mystery I live in                                              It is a blow of pain I feel in my heart                                   With a wet pillow I sleep all night                                           am lonely I know I am                                                           am broken deep down                                                          am helpless somehow                                                          ­wanna talk to the sky hope it going to listen!

Oh! I said as I lay back on my bed
Thinking of where to begin the puzzle

So scanty yet so complusory is the puzzle of life

The Good seems too good,and the bad seems too bad
Yet there aren't space for sitting on the. Wall

Life get tougher on some of us
And softer to some of us

When we are wining we are happy
When we lose we hate life

When we smile we forget the pain of yesterday

When we cry we forget the smile of the same morning

Roll right! Roll left rolling everywhere on my bed.

My african prince am dreaming of you
This lonliness might **** me

This hunger I don't think I can satisfy
This thirst I can't quench

My love! My love! Think am losing my mind!
Cos every seconds I wish to spend with you

I keep waiting for your golden handkerchief to dry the tears of my lonliness,my thirst and hunger for you!

Come into my open hands my prince!

I rose to feel the warm breeze of a new day
Seeing that a new life has begun
The past are all behind me
And the future I have dare to face

My mind I have made up for challenges ahead,I know what I want and that I shall get
I want an awesome fellow,I need a splendid partner
I want a friend of class and high esteem
Someone with whom together we will conguer
Someone to love till eternity even if the sun falls out of the sky

Where my man goes,there I will be!

I would drain the pain in my heart out into the fluid of my pen

Cos I know in them alone can I find solace

I could try to be strong and put my make-ups on but I know my heart is as blank as a plain sheet

I could remember those moment when life seems perfect and those thought that you can always have it all

But now it more painful to accept that truly you can have it all

I would cry to make myself feel better but. I know my tears are my signs of weakness. Then I would wish that I could be consoled by friends

But when I look around I found out it just me and my darling thought!

Then I would even cry more!

Deep in my lonely thought,I think of my perfect prince charming!

Little did I know that my pride will be. Stolen by a lad of chase

I took destiny to have prevailed until my end of love he seek

When thee ran away with that pride and left me lost

Alone in another sail to sea,another has endowed me with love

Love so pure,long lasting conventions with love

Naming our unborn babies but soon it all gone

Now I know I had lost thee for real.
Is it that this things never change

Or is it that all prince charming are lost

Alas,that noise that never stop in awhile
With every step as swift as a bullet
Goodluck!to the women that never worry in the sun
Begging and pleading that their goods be bought

Every stall with a rhythm advertising song
That makes you wonder how happy they are?
With clean and ***** wrappers speaking on top voices
Both in winter and harmmatan just to sell their goods

Taking note of every strange sound heard to run at the smell of trouble
At dark time every patronizer goes one after another
Even the lousy women leave their stall too

If life is compared to a moment like this ,then the end will surely come at last.

O see the Clock as it clicks
And even eyes does its blinks
But time they say will tell
When each leaves shall fall
To all human time is essence
So essential a priceless assest

Unlike dreams that we share
Unlike fairy tales we hear
Our destiny is what is fated
So unlike to be changed
Both good and bad is made

To all soul is a time frame
Each one speeding between the time lag
Live your life by the roll of time
So your life won't be lame
Rise and shine when you can
So you won't leave out of kinds

Truly not all fairy tales come true
Not all dreams are,can be assure
But destiny is underpinning
Even if it not what you are demanding
Your destiny was what is given
With a fair cry it must be taken

When others watch a boat sailing
You watch what the time says
Destiny!! a gift of pride bethrowed
Which no human in life can withhold

OH! My destiny hope it is what I can behold


Written by: Temitope Olayinka M