#leah
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am a captive
Taken from my home
Away from love and care
Now I live in fear
In the midst of the unknown
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
Oh! You have forgotten me, probably
I wouldn't blame you
I am just a girl, you thought
But I am Nigeria
And I could be just your girl
Yet you go to bed with both eyes closed
Because I am just a girl.
How do you sleep?
How do you find peace?
How do you laugh with satisfaction
And Find rest?
Knowing I am Leah Sharibu
And I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
Who is she? I can hear you ask.
Oh! You've forgotten?
I am that "Dapchi girl"
Kidnapped with her school mates
But they are free and I am not
They gained their lives back
Because they are what I am not
That's what some people thought
But I am not just "that Dapchi girl"
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
And I am a captive
I am in chains
I am in bonds
I am in pains
And I am not free
I am still missing
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am a Christian
That's what you said
But I am more than a Christian
I am a girl child
I am a woman
I am a daughter
I am a mother
And I am a wife
But I am more than all these
Yes! I am
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
Though you called me a Christian
Undoubtedly I am
Was that not why you left me behind?
Was that not why you've left me till now?
How callous? How unpatriotic?
You swore an oath to protect me
But you lied
You think calling me a Christian
Will clear your conscience
But you lie!
I am Nigeria
That's my identity
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I have been betrayed
By Deceivers parading themselves as leaders
By cowards parading themselves as heroes
By liers who embraces you with a dagger
I have been betrayed
By enemies camouflaged as friends
I thought they cared about me
But all they want is a piece of me.
So they don't care if I bleed
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am not missing
You can see me
But you've refused to free me
You've made me your slave
Everyday you **** me
Everyday you **** me
Everyday you brutalise me
Everyday you torment me
Despite the oath you swore to protect me
You have become my terror
My Kidnapper
My tormentor
My killer
My captor
My destroyer
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I can see, you don't care, who I am
You think I will just pass away
Like a shadow in the night
Another figure among the many lost
So you hope
But you lie
I am your fear
I am your shame
I am your story
Ugly but true
I am your cross
You must bear
I am your pain
And I won't go away
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
You can **** me
But I won't die
Though ****** with many swords
And bleeding on all sides
You will always hear my cries
Because I live on....
You can try to hide me
Like a woman's nature call
But I won't go away
I will be your nightmare
And walk the night in your sleep
I will be your nemesis
And follow you to your grave
I will be your infamy
Lay you bare for the world to see
I will be the truth
That topples your lies
And I pray that I will be your end
So you'd be no more
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria
Another night has come
And I pray for sleep
Not knowing if I will see the dawning of a new day
You expect me to be weak
To break down and fall
You expect me to be feeble and frail
But I won't
Everyday I see the sun
I will grow strong
Everyday I take a breath
I shall be agile able
Don't expect me to give up
For I shall win at last
I am Leah Sharibu
I am Nigeria.
Jan 24, 2021
Jan 24, 2021 at 7:13 PM UTC
Intrepid damsel,
a heroine unsung.
A willing martyr
with courage
unrivalled.
Unransomed captive
with a ransom
infinite.
She gladly faces
death with eternity
in view.
Like her lover before her,
she chooses to be
a sacrificial lamb
to the slaughter.
Leah Sharibu,
the heroine unsung.
She that chose to mortify
her passions
for timeless paradise.
Hardly daunted by
Kalashnikovs and
thunderous explosives,
she inherits a world
deemed abstract by
unfaithful adherents.
Aug 3, 2019
Aug 3, 2019 at 9:52 AM UTC
Roses are red,
Violets are ugly,
I'll **** myself
If you don't love me
Apr 29, 2019
Apr 29, 2019 at 10:45 AM UTC
Muchmuchomuchas confucious
is you us o is we you?
dobedobedoo
Save the world s cient ology
al re
ye wit me?
witness, will ye, that we
are in coexistant
realms
realms real by de
finition re
cognition
occult cult occham snip, nope
occult mistook as meaning some cultic
occasion for
relegare regularityifity
imagine how now became
imagine next
coming only to be as you see.
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Today, too, sunny valley sounds
crows, dogs, pumps, motors, wheels
wheels in wheels wee blind tinkerers
see
as seers do. You see. Imagine seeing.
why would you, if you could, or can, but won't?
How could you?
Having never seen,
why willt thou carry care past.... here
NO INTERUPTION ... clear, like on TV
Emerging seeing afar off
flatline eeeeeee
Boss, the last empty slate just broke.
Just is is done, what's next?
We gotta phor mit no meta, y'see?
Watch. Dis
assemble a semblance of a seven jewel ba-alanced,
self-winding (i.e. gravity variable pendulum)
watch. See,
plumb damstraight, toothed wheels, within wheels.
life's life measured.
the unmeasured life ain't a life,
it's a once, upon a time.
No bonds to lies let live for lack of knowledge,
people perish for lack of knowing.
lack of knowing knowables, free knowables,
ask and receive, if ye be con ceptual, right,
in ye'right mind.
"what good ken ye do?"
Know truth is.
That will, that very will to be right,
free will will roll you here, true rest.
Today.
Trust this peace is sufficient unto the evil.
If it were not true, what could I do
good?
No judges? No test? We pasts are free, we may
stir things from the dregs?
Aha, and we stand!, Sistere!
It worked. Patience worked, as always.
Mar 5, 2019
Mar 5, 2019 at 1:12 PM UTC
Sunny beams bleach the coast with all varieties of yellow shades
Enveloping every plane and surface with their warm glow
Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 8:20 AM UTC
All music is is just a composition of sounds
Sounds that resonate with the listeners enough to stick around
It's an outlet for those with a need to inspire and connect
It's a mesh of sounds that tells stories of lessons, tragedies, and loves.
Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 2:02 PM UTC
It's been one and a half hours
Slow service
Never have I been one to get frustrated with authoritative figures
But wow
One and a half hours
Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 10:54 AM UTC
His brown eyes gaze into space
Freezing the world with one glance
Both orbs mirroring flecks of light
Capturing moments in time
I wonder... What does he see?
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 1:27 AM UTC
Every day begins with a walk from the train to the doors of school.
With headphones in my ears, music playing, and a sweet melody comforting my morning blues
I am content.
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 1:24 AM UTC
Burnt out cigarette buds decorate the pavement with black blobs that were once white cubes of Dentyne Ice Spearmint, green and yellow slivers of Trident Layers , and blocks of pink Hubba Bubba
Some spots contrast to their lighter halves from the melted ice, creating dark slicks of black cement
It's wintertime in Manhattan.
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
I see
the endless universe
with the sky as my viewfinder to my still-life
yet not so still as
vibrant explosions of stars scatter small, small particles
marking an end and a new beginning.
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 1:08 AM UTC
Daylight
Can you save something intangible?
Can you collect hours of daylight and pack them away for another time?
Can you save a memory the way a few coins would settle in the bottom of a piggy bank?
Does it keep the way a loaf of bread would in a breadbox?
Can you open a wrapper and find it ready to enjoy like a sweet chocolate?
Maybe not but it's savor-able.
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 1:03 AM UTC
Delicious fragrances from sugary honeysuckles dance across the yard,
Mingling with the rich savory scent of freshly cut grass
Mixing quite the cocktail of perfumes
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 12:56 AM UTC
Many people quickly conclude,
After taking only one glance,
That you are up to no good.
Really, why must we be so shrewd,
If the truth can be defeated with one look of askance?
Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 1:36 AM UTC
Do you even know what you stand for?
Do we even know what we stand for?
As the latest inequalities between races, classes, and genders sweep by my generation, we stand one-by-one
I wonder how many rose because the person next to them did
Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 12:31 PM UTC
Have you ever thought of chasing the sun?
Of leaving everything and just going?
Of following bright yellow rays and fading, flaming tails
And giving into the chase?
I have.
Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 1:09 AM UTC