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Rabiu Ameen Aug 16
Weird as it may sound
You come and go, round and round
Your duty's time-bound

You! Nocturnal keep
Creeping into deepest sleep
Guilty when you peep

Mounts a frail device
While our minds skate on thin ice
Be gentle and nice

Sleep is lame and cold
Casts astral beams of pure gold
My soul! Please, be bold

Flicker images
One from a thousand ages
Tales from few pages

Mold them still with clay
Playbacks that trouble my day
Keep nightmares at bay

Lost souls on a race
To a ****** embrace
Dream's name must be grace
#spirituality and sleep
#mind-body-spirit connection
Rabiu Ameen Aug 11
From a small coven
To a large overwhelming crowd
All clustered under the scorching oven
With our voices chorusing and loud


In the heat of a brooding chaos, behold! The guns and boots
Spouting warily with nictitating crocodile eyes, marking for some kills
As other swarm of hoodlums rejoined with their loots
The breath of rightful deeds felt clogged like diseased mackerel gills


We must ward off this harsh rule in one massive anguished buzz
We must stand with one beating heart yet unresolved
With defiance or blunted zeal, not just a mere fuzz
Despite scattered dust mixing with the oozing off tossed canisters, we marched undissolved


We have tolerated enough to inspire many hunger wars
We are refusing to let our voices be contained in an enclosed stage
Be silenced, nor be put behind bars
Like some hunted wilds stocked away in a zoo cage


With such unbearable vultures' cry hovering around hyenas' feasting pile
With such rebellious act, yet justified with empty belly sense
"Where are the truckload of palliatives?", Someone alarmed with a stone projectile
In retaliation, a series of warning shots poked the skies, perhaps to flaunt firearms license


If not let to roar with animal rage while wagging its jungle tail
A hunger protest still; To what end, If not let to march towards the banquet gate of hell
If not let to bring down the profoundly deaf mushroom walls with a molotov cocktail
So sickening till dawn, yet we await the political butler to ring the broadcast bell
Rabiu Ameen Sep 18
Nothing we haven't seen many times before
How you forge stuffs, bending them all to your twisted will
A kind Nurse that you are; I shall mistake you for
Always checking on earth that's being terminally ill

How many times have you come visiting
To the bereaved, you are bad omen and not a hero
Costume embroidered with pocket clocks and ticking
Well, nobody's counting till life fades to zero

Lure me not to sleep with your sad lullaby
Nor accost me in the shape of an unusual passer-by
For there are a million ways to die and bid goodbye
Rabiu Ameen Aug 12
Outside native shore where distant relatives come from
Mountainous hills looked like folds of crashing tide
Grooving trees danced to the rhythm of ancestral drum
Woodcraft countenance of a beast appeared, faces run to hide


Metal gutting through air like the reek of some fermented spirit
All shivering bones must heed to this mystic call of resonance
And should one ignore those small alarming bells; waist-tied to this trigger happy grit
Only vicious death 'll bid victim farewell in any horrifying state of happenstance


We should have set forth at dawn; long before the eve of a looming Caesar's day
Lest we meet dangling blade at the crossroads handheld by bitumen-drenched ****** from southeast
But as daylight covered herself with a blanket of gathered thick clouds of may
The land's celebration of silence was ruined with the marching ankle-bells of the masked beast


Cultures are birthed like the plethora skins of an onion
Smearing our visions with this spiritual sogginess of something rooted and cruel
We have always known masquerade brandishing a stick stripped from tall bamboo straws; to be seen as a merriment minion
And not this awful glare at its wake, needing mask spray from mouth-spitting gin, perhaps; to aggravate horror of a burning fuel


We have heard rumors of their king's weaning breathe
Perhaps; mere travelers' souls should be spared from unforeseen burial rites
For our supplication of a thousand lives shall go to mend his majesty's health
So we may leave the festival behind with great hastiness and mights
Rabiu Ameen Nov 18
On one gloomy evening
Neighborhood stray-paws come to prey
Backyard roosters; yapping and flapping
Pillowcase feathers sprout in the color of snow grey

Got spooked suddenly; waking slumbered bind
Still blinded by freezing disbelief; an odd sight
It was, for the dreamer lost inside his own mind
Horrible animal noise should tunnel-guide to the light

Back to the cold struggling-bound world where
Deep sleep is certainly an obvious escape place
Though trickery peaceful; nothing could hurt there
Except diffuse our aura metaphysically beyond space

Between reality and fantasy, if I'm to choose
I shall go with the latter because I don't want to
Take a rifle, resume another cycle of violence noose
Knowing one day, I could forever retire to a wonderful fantasy too
Rabiu Ameen Aug 12
Amidst rain, storm roars
I see no castrated boars
Boat's offshore no oars

Suzie's lips gape wide
She mounts upon  me astride
But I'm no horse ride

Her skin's like fresh meat
I can smell her desert heat
Kissing two hearts beat

Sadistic nails jooked
Parachute bra flies unhooked
Sweet pain overlooked

Obey and poised steely
Or miss chance to taste freely
Tongue's out slink deely

Coitus should be fun
Wheely as a circus bun
Sways no childish pun

Letting her take lead
As I sprout thoughts from charred ****
With one closed eyelid

She grabs the viper
Moods daren't swing like jeep's wiper
"Roger that, ******!"
Rabiu Ameen Dec 6
In her over-wrapping arm embrace
Under the yellow banana moon
My soul finds purity and solace
As she puts love medicine on my teaspoon
  
Smothering sunset sails
On her warmth breathe and cough
As I cast my eyes upon her mouthy rove
Frosty and sugary; her impeccable love
could coat my inexperienced heart twice enough

What an over-extension of my true self and being
She is; with a fierce body and piercing eyes stare
That glitter like those little stars; still shimmering
Though from a billion yards away but seems so near

She had been cold as ice for so many years
And could no longer endure the long boring night
Come near and closer; stay forever I plead her
So she may see where my love lies

— The End —