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#*Can it love you like God loves you, with a love that is better than life? Can it connect you to eternal beauty? Can it save you? Can it redeem you?  Can it lift you out of the miry pit? Can it make you clean enough to finally feel acceptable? Can it delight your soul to the core? Can it take your breath away with its faithfulness to you? Can it paint both sunrise and sunset across the sky to beckon your attention? Can it cause the breeze to blow and gently caress your cheeks? Can it send hummingbirds and wildflowers across your path to romance your heart? Can it parade before you the starry host and call them each by name? Can it probe you to the depths and fill you with itself? Can it rush to your aid riding on the wings of the wind? Can it satisfy your hunger and thirst with bountiful things? Can it give to you feet like a deer that you might dance upon the heights? Can it arrange every detail of your life to draw you and drive you to itself? Can it pursue you with all the resources of the universe? Can it know you through and through and still desire you? Can it raise you up and seat you in the heavenly realms and bless you with every spiritual blessing? Can it supply your every need out of its glorious riches? Can its grace be sufficient for you and its mercy help you in your greatest temptation? Can it pour overflowing comfort into you through all of your troubles? Can it reach down to draw you out of deep waters? Can it set you on an unshakable foundation? Can it bound across the mountains to come to your rescue? Can it make you lie down in green pastures and lead you beside still waters? Can it walk with you through the darkest wilderness and never leave you or forsake you? Can it carry you when you are weak or have fallen? Can it let you rest between its shoulders when you are weary or burdened? Can it escort you to heaven’s banqueting table and spread its banner of love over you? Can it hide you in the shelter of its wing? Can it be your daily portion and immerse you in the boundlessness of itself? Can it clothe you in robes of righteousness and garments of salvation?  Can it give to you praise in exchange for mourning? Can it bestow on you a crown of beauty for ashes? Can it turn your wailing into dancing? Can it flood you with peace like a river? Can it fill your heart with joy in the worst of afflictions? Can it know the way to lead you home? Can it refine you in its fire and bring you forth as gold?  Can it capture you fully even as it sets you fully free? Can it ever truly be your Everything?*#
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 12:47 PM UTC
What Can Your Idol Do?
#*Can it love you like God loves you, with a love that is better than life? Can it connect you to eternal beauty? Can it save you? Can it redeem you?  Can it lift you out of the miry pit? Can it make you clean enough to finally feel acceptable? Can it delight your soul to the core? Can it take your breath away with its faithfulness to you? Can it paint both sunrise and sunset across the sky to beckon your attention? Can it cause the breeze to blow and gently caress your cheeks? Can it send hummingbirds and wildflowers across your path to romance your heart? Can it parade before you the starry host and call them each by name? Can it probe you to the depths and fill you with itself? Can it rush to your aid riding on the wings of the wind? Can it satisfy your hunger and thirst with bountiful things? Can it give to you feet like a deer that you might dance upon the heights? Can it arrange every detail of your life to draw you and drive you to itself? Can it pursue you with all the resources of the universe? Can it know you through and through and still desire you? Can it raise you up and seat you in the heavenly realms and bless you with every spiritual blessing? Can it supply your every need out of its glorious riches? Can its grace be sufficient for you and its mercy help you in your greatest temptation? Can it pour overflowing comfort into you through all of your troubles? Can it reach down to draw you out of deep waters? Can it set you on an unshakable foundation? Can it bound across the mountains to come to your rescue? Can it make you lie down in green pastures and lead you beside still waters? Can it walk with you through the darkest wilderness and never leave you or forsake you? Can it carry you when you are weak or have fallen? Can it let you rest between its shoulders when you are weary or burdened? Can it escort you to heaven’s banqueting table and spread its banner of love over you? Can it hide you in the shelter of its wing? Can it be your daily portion and immerse you in the boundlessness of itself? Can it clothe you in robes of righteousness and garments of salvation?  Can it give to you praise in exchange for mourning? Can it bestow on you a crown of beauty for ashes? Can it turn your wailing into dancing? Can it flood you with peace like a river? Can it fill your heart with joy in the worst of afflictions? Can it know the way to lead you home? Can it refine you in its fire and bring you forth as gold?  Can it capture you fully even as it sets you fully free? Can it ever truly be your Everything?*#
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Trade,Globalization,Terrorism and Corruption What's the difference? Each of us look at the world with open eyes yet with closed minds. We see the structures of society right before us yet we can do nothing to alter its existence Marxism, Liberalism, Elitism, lenses that see a point but not the whole picture The age of politics is over, the market comes to be our master I know some might argue over me in this, but hear me out still. The world we live in is like a senseless commodity Our natural resources is taken every day To create excess cars, excess food, excess everything The surplus is too much that its overflowing with decay Another thing is war, A place where precious lives are seen to be walking bags of meat. The preach for violence that could've created peace, and for what ? To protect the free world? where the rich sit in high places and some of us pushed down to supply their greed Globalization is a license, a license to what? A license to **** a license to invade other states without the use of soldiers to force out our will We become docile as people in their wake and companies are laughing as we speak. These corrupt figures ,conflict is their business, opportunity and peace is their excuse. Human integration is what they say and offer, for a better society they say. But look at us now, where is the promise of a future in the world today? The world terrorizes me, terrorizes the people who are willing to see and if I am in terror, what makes the system different from the loud bombs we hear when they explode. They only made ways to make the killings silent and the experience more traumatic. I'm sorry if globalization is a bad thing for me, but living in our country, globalization harms before it can give it takes before we can receive.
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 12:20 PM UTC
Globalization
Trade,Globalization,Terrorism and Corruption What's the difference? Each of us look at the world with open eyes yet with closed minds. We see the structures of society right before us yet we can do nothing to alter its existence Marxism, Liberalism, Elitism, lenses that see a point but not the whole picture The age of politics is over, the market comes to be our master I know some might argue over me in this, but hear me out still. The world we live in is like a senseless commodity Our natural resources is taken every day To create excess cars, excess food, excess everything The surplus is too much that its overflowing with decay Another thing is war, A place where precious lives are seen to be walking bags of meat. The preach for violence that could've created peace, and for what ? To protect the free world? where the rich sit in high places and some of us pushed down to supply their greed Globalization is a license, a license to what? A license to **** a license to invade other states without the use of soldiers to force out our will We become docile as people in their wake and companies are laughing as we speak. These corrupt figures ,conflict is their business, opportunity and peace is their excuse. Human integration is what they say and offer, for a better society they say. But look at us now, where is the promise of a future in the world today? The world terrorizes me, terrorizes the people who are willing to see and if I am in terror, what makes the system different from the loud bombs we hear when they explode. They only made ways to make the killings silent and the experience more traumatic. I'm sorry if globalization is a bad thing for me, but living in our country, globalization harms before it can give it takes before we can receive.
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Kashmir Delirium Oh People Of Earth! Thankful are we, For each act of benevolence shown to us. Your gilded sweet words describing, The beauty of Kasmir, land and people. Mention in books and talks of it's riches, Naming it the Sweet Paradise Of Earth. The Lord has been bountiful to Kashmir, Treasure of resources in every sphere. To elevate each aspect, our wish for life, As every acre of this land is worth millions. Full of treasures and recreational value, Forestry with grandeur and silvery rivers. The outside world's view is so limited, Simple folks living in the lap of rich bounty. Mentioned in world forums and organizations, But what of the goal of giving us freedom? What has The UN established in our name? To measure the pain and anguish we bear, At the hands, of our supposed benefactors. The saviours who has us fractured. But in reality they train their enforcers, In the art of creating oceans of tears. The red blood now hidden in camouflage, The spent shells now gathered and hidden. The leaders we are told to elect in electoral shams, Run publicity kiosks and swell friend lists. Joint conferences to address personal interests Dialogues that never address the root issues. Just the formalities and no sympathy, For the ones burnt in cruel sadistic reprisals. The hypocrisy continues deliriously unabated, More augmentation of the security forces. For a first hand view of deep hypocrisy, Walk this land, you know as beautiful. Religious leaders will teach you political artistry, Sermons full of ambiguity and guile. Waywardness and narrow mindedness on display, Political apologists give great lessons. Religion and religious ethnicity are tools, That keep minds and bodies in total check. Gamesmanship by leaders is the rule of thumb, As promises are forgotten once office is obtained. When writing of this succulent beautiful land, Write of the air, pregnant with sadistic practices. This land is being stripped of worldly treasures, And the greatest treasure is mistreated daily. The best of nation is the inhabitants, Ignored are the real gems of this beautiful paradise.
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Dec 29, 2015
Dec 29, 2015 at 6:44 AM UTC
Kashmir Delirium
Kashmir Delirium Oh People Of Earth! Thankful are we, For each act of benevolence shown to us. Your gilded sweet words describing, The beauty of Kasmir, land and people. Mention in books and talks of it's riches, Naming it the Sweet Paradise Of Earth. The Lord has been bountiful to Kashmir, Treasure of resources in every sphere. To elevate each aspect, our wish for life, As every acre of this land is worth millions. Full of treasures and recreational value, Forestry with grandeur and silvery rivers. The outside world's view is so limited, Simple folks living in the lap of rich bounty. Mentioned in world forums and organizations, But what of the goal of giving us freedom? What has The UN established in our name? To measure the pain and anguish we bear, At the hands, of our supposed benefactors. The saviours who has us fractured. But in reality they train their enforcers, In the art of creating oceans of tears. The red blood now hidden in camouflage, The spent shells now gathered and hidden. The leaders we are told to elect in electoral shams, Run publicity kiosks and swell friend lists. Joint conferences to address personal interests Dialogues that never address the root issues. Just the formalities and no sympathy, For the ones burnt in cruel sadistic reprisals. The hypocrisy continues deliriously unabated, More augmentation of the security forces. For a first hand view of deep hypocrisy, Walk this land, you know as beautiful. Religious leaders will teach you political artistry, Sermons full of ambiguity and guile. Waywardness and narrow mindedness on display, Political apologists give great lessons. Religion and religious ethnicity are tools, That keep minds and bodies in total check. Gamesmanship by leaders is the rule of thumb, As promises are forgotten once office is obtained. When writing of this succulent beautiful land, Write of the air, pregnant with sadistic practices. This land is being stripped of worldly treasures, And the greatest treasure is mistreated daily. The best of nation is the inhabitants, Ignored are the real gems of this beautiful paradise.
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**The band starts playing at a ***** and crowded backyard. Rebellious youth gather to cast their vote with the stomping of their doc martin boots. Beer cans everywhere, everyone's trying to let loose the raw stranglehold their society has produced. The guitars go off and the ritual begins. First they assemble in the heart of the pit. In the center individual tragedies bring fourth the wrath of a God's army. Anarchy you call it, Ha! I call it reassurance, reassurance that this anger is surely communal. I never saw it more clearer, the youth's power to resist: If the government wont hear us, we will create our own sound even under the batons of fascism, we spit on your rule, your control of our art. We wont bow down to a law with our names written all over it, while another politician walks free from corruption. While another officer guns down an un armed child and calls it self-defense. While suspicious mass shootings continue to occur and mass cameras grow in recording. While you send more people off to war for another countries resources. These thoughts explode out of me into shoves, screams, ****** cuts, reckless behavior, and then finally release. Pure psychiatric release.**
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
The Pit
She is equipped with sensitive ******* and those other secret places that ladies give out as prizes to deserving guys as long as they adopt the right disguises of gods, gurus, intellectual giants, goats, children, father figures, macho brutes, sugar-daddies, supermen, seminal vessels, house-repairers, jar openers, jocks, hate objects, handy shoulders to cry on, emotional support systems, sensitive, intuitive, yet strong silent types who can also pay the bills, tall dark and handsome total strangers, toy boys, clowns, jugglers, jokers, millionaires, wood choppers, ******* removers, bottomless reservoirs of reassurance or just plain spunky studs when the moon is right. In fact, anything but woffly wimps. Oh God, no.  Anything but woffly wimps. Yes, but what about stoic, steadfast SNAGS, you know, the Sensitive New Age Guys who won’t face-shift for a **** Yes, well, let's try to sum all this up here right now. I think that the woman is dripping with a brimming reservoir of luscious and sensitive resources on tap for   the man who can figure out her cosmic kaleidoscope   of swirling dreams and desires, which is definitely not to say she can’t be totally independent. Although please don't be confused. Friendly boy-next-door types who are handsome, aren't too hairy, who like to laugh, who have a boyish braggadocio, who are students, who appear to be intellectuals, who are not nerds, and who can **** it in the kitchen, who  can be oh, so cool, who can convince a maiden that she is in distress, and is in need of rescuing, while he has a swaggering hard-on will do, too. Oooh. You devil. And if you think this poem is misogynist, misanthropic or myopic, well, I’ve been around and by now, well, I really should be panoptic because I’ve seen all the fads, and really, it’s sadly too bad about those poor old earnest SNAGS. But you know what? I don't think I understand anything, because I'm really a victim of worshiping women. I'm bedazzled and as blind as the next man, and yes, I'm just happy whenever I'm with them.
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 8:28 PM UTC
The Woman
She is equipped with sensitive ******* and those other secret places that ladies give out as prizes to deserving guys as long as they adopt the right disguises of gods, gurus, intellectual giants, goats, children, father figures, macho brutes, sugar-daddies, supermen, seminal vessels, house-repairers, jar openers, jocks, hate objects, handy shoulders to cry on, emotional support systems, sensitive, intuitive, yet strong silent types who can also pay the bills, tall dark and handsome total strangers, toy boys, clowns, jugglers, jokers, millionaires, wood choppers, ******* removers, bottomless reservoirs of reassurance or just plain spunky studs when the moon is right. In fact, anything but woffly wimps. Oh God, no.  Anything but woffly wimps. Yes, but what about stoic, steadfast SNAGS, you know, the Sensitive New Age Guys who won’t face-shift for a **** Yes, well, let's try to sum all this up here right now. I think that the woman is dripping with a brimming reservoir of luscious and sensitive resources on tap for   the man who can figure out her cosmic kaleidoscope   of swirling dreams and desires, which is definitely not to say she can’t be totally independent. Although please don't be confused. Friendly boy-next-door types who are handsome, aren't too hairy, who like to laugh, who have a boyish braggadocio, who are students, who appear to be intellectuals, who are not nerds, and who can **** it in the kitchen, who  can be oh, so cool, who can convince a maiden that she is in distress, and is in need of rescuing, while he has a swaggering hard-on will do, too. Oooh. You devil. And if you think this poem is misogynist, misanthropic or myopic, well, I’ve been around and by now, well, I really should be panoptic because I’ve seen all the fads, and really, it’s sadly too bad about those poor old earnest SNAGS. But you know what? I don't think I understand anything, because I'm really a victim of worshiping women. I'm bedazzled and as blind as the next man, and yes, I'm just happy whenever I'm with them.
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I see the older generations say “I miss the good ole days” “I miss the America I grew up in” Do they fail to realize that their generation did this? Their generation ruined the economy Their generation poisoned the earth Their generation drained the Earth of her resources Their generation segregated people of color Their generation disowns their children for being gay Their generation is full of hate But go on, please, tell me how my generation is ruining the world. My generation who is chanting Black Lives Mater My generation who is trying to reduce their plastic usage My generation who is fighting for LGBT+ rights My generation who is fighting for women to have the right to their body My generation who is still in school My generation who is mentally unstable But still is trying to make things right. My generation is doing the things their generation failed to. Their generation had their time, and they failed their children Their grandchildren So now it’s time for a new generation My generation
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Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020 at 9:38 AM UTC
Their/My Generation
I came to liberate lions from dungeons I came to share and not stare at you I came to actualize powers within me I intend to distribute resources equally I came to reiterate that all beings are beautiful I came to make an impact like mountains do I came to create music with my attitude I intend that symphonies surround me with their melodies I intend that children feel safe to open up to me I came to empower dancers in perpetual motion I intend to be a witness to the miracles of life’s radiance I came to scream love songs into forests I came to hear my own voice echoed by hollow caverns I intend to create portals that we can travel through I came to bring back the aurora borealis at all latitudes
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Jan 5, 2017
Jan 5, 2017 at 12:42 PM UTC
a declaration of emancipation
Even the idea was worthy of a fight and all too much preparation. We dolled ourselves up for alienation, even though the faces present were so familiar and etched into memory. Who are you Mr.Cool? If that is your real name. Whiskey breath and filterless smokes only impresses the girls in the movies, with scripts written by clueless men like you, who can't supply injury so they bring only insult. You are a secretary bird, a mime, and the copycat kid. Trying to be a bad boy and hide amongst the spoiled brats you claim. Keep on burrowing and severing ties, ravishing resources leads to ruin. You say you've heard rumors? Well, I've heard facts. I've seen facts! Your parasitic disguise will crumble under the weight of your genuinely selfish persona. While the company I keep will only know the side you wished to reveal in front of all the pretty boys and girls.
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Sep 4, 2013
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:04 PM UTC
Party Night (Rumors)
Supposing that we lit some candles. One for each person on this earth, we would blow one out at a funeral and light one up at a birth. The world would grow darker every time we lost a fighter but with every new born baby it gets just that bit brighter. If you travelled into a city that was dark and gritty you'd know that they didn't have many in their committee. But.. If the light was brilliant and bright it would send a beaming message throughout the night. Saying "We are here! And we are alive!" Not wanting to be alone we endeavor to collide and form one giant, shining beacon that burns so fierce we're sure it can't weaken We sparkle and crackle and bend nature to our whim the mighty fire so strong it just had to gave in. With it we forged iron and buildings, cars and computers and lit paths of lives to guide commuters We lit up the universe as far as we could see Improving our lives greatly with technology obsessed with our professed fixture on practicality we completely forgot about morality Our fires forged weapons which we aimed next door In one swift movement we saw the effects of war 6,000,000 candles extinguished over arguments on which light is most distinguished So fixated on this light we blinded our eyes and the candle smoke filled the skies. We thought candles were good, they elevated us higher but now all we have is thick smoke and fire. The fire consuming all in its route the root of our lives follow suite. It's eating the oxygen and burning the grass the sand is melting and forming to glass. The glass it shatters into a thousand pieces more candles are lighting, the temperature increases The resources decline, as do the candles buried in ash a hundred thousand scandals. Now only a few lit candles remain as they slowly melt and fade away.
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 1:39 PM UTC
Supposing that we lit some candles..
Supposing that we lit some candles. One for each person on this earth, we would blow one out at a funeral and light one up at a birth. The world would grow darker every time we lost a fighter but with every new born baby it gets just that bit brighter. If you travelled into a city that was dark and gritty you'd know that they didn't have many in their committee. But.. If the light was brilliant and bright it would send a beaming message throughout the night. Saying "We are here! And we are alive!" Not wanting to be alone we endeavor to collide and form one giant, shining beacon that burns so fierce we're sure it can't weaken We sparkle and crackle and bend nature to our whim the mighty fire so strong it just had to gave in. With it we forged iron and buildings, cars and computers and lit paths of lives to guide commuters We lit up the universe as far as we could see Improving our lives greatly with technology obsessed with our professed fixture on practicality we completely forgot about morality Our fires forged weapons which we aimed next door In one swift movement we saw the effects of war 6,000,000 candles extinguished over arguments on which light is most distinguished So fixated on this light we blinded our eyes and the candle smoke filled the skies. We thought candles were good, they elevated us higher but now all we have is thick smoke and fire. The fire consuming all in its route the root of our lives follow suite. It's eating the oxygen and burning the grass the sand is melting and forming to glass. The glass it shatters into a thousand pieces more candles are lighting, the temperature increases The resources decline, as do the candles buried in ash a hundred thousand scandals. Now only a few lit candles remain as they slowly melt and fade away.
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Games between Earth and another space world But it’s Level 2 through 5 in swirl Various games testing your ability to win ‘It’s all levels calling the stops at the very end The wrong Earth message sent to unknown space It’s the Earth from the outer world of space who wants to erase It’s the video games of commerce and the Earth responding in defense Strategy with a theory of game perfection Knowledge with the power in how one will win It’s was all the past thinking comprising from then Level’s up and talent of one’s hands Video movement and watching with keen control commands Making elevating scores being a caravan Earth being on an objective move The other world with wizardry in fool on the top of being cruel Professional video game players becoming their own challenge in saving the world The outer world being defeated and their resources depleted A delete on the outer world terms Think positive in knowing you have achieved and the welcomed honor to proceed Video games being one’s pure success, but those who can conquer are the masters who are the best.
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 1:32 PM UTC
THE VIDEO GAME PIXELS ATTACK
This is Nigeria This is Nigeria; presidency turns sick leave. This is Nigeria; one-sided democracy. Double standard constitution, everything is dazy. This is Nigeria; police bus be calling crowd. Enter and become cowed. This is Nigeria; best graduating student gets a thousand naira. This is Nigeria; I hope we can differentiate between private and public institutions. Lackadaisical attitudes everywhere, except religion institutions. This is Nigeria; over a year strike in our foremost sector but it's a norm. Corruption; a living form. This is Nigeria; education is dull. This is Nigeria; economy problem is solved by increased school fees. Such government still gets a second term. Madness; it's our liss. This is Nigeria; lot of resources but we still pray for light. Food, security and rights. This is Nigeria; lecturers give grades anyhow. This is Nigeria; Animal is swallowing money. In a government with the main aim of fighting corruption, it's funny. This is Nigeria; politicians changing parties. Playing with our lives like they're ******* Peter Oyebanji (PIRO)
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May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 at 5:38 AM UTC
This is Nigeria
i've never been to any other highschool in my life. therefore, i cannot speak for all schools. but, i can speak for my school. about every other student here is a druggie. which means you have your choice of two crowds. but once you choose, at the beginning of your freshman year, you can't change your mind. and the teachers here rarely teach. they throw slideshows up and blame you for not paying attention if you actually get the nerve to go up and ask for help. our principal promotes mental health, but doesn't give any resources for mental breakdowns, anxiety, or depression. sitting in classrooms for eight hours, with people you can't stand, with nowhere to go will completely destroy someone especially someone already suffering.
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 9:33 AM UTC
school of death
I am not just a person in a uniform, I am a Soldier. Every time I arise,  I obey; Each time she calls, I step up To defend her freedom, To restore her home of peace I arise,  I obey, I soldier on. Into the forest of her terrors I charge, not without fear for that which is mine but with love and strength and faith, I March. Defending the labour of heroes past, I march; fighting for dreams of her children bright- the  future she deserves. I arise, I obey, I soldier on. In the army I serve Nigeria,  my Country with heart, might and spine. Though a thousand times I have fallen, bits and pieces of me, lost to her darkness, still I obey, knowing it may be my last. I arise, leaving my family and friends behind. I obey your call of duty. My service and loyalty I pack on with my combat gear, that you may live to see yet another day, to feel yet another ray of light on your face. I am not just a person in a uniform. I am your Soldier,  the Nigerian Soldier, Ambushed and slaughtered in 40s, 70s and 100 for lack of resources. Bless me O Nigeria as I arise and obey Send me to your enemies with arsenals and might to match the fire in my eyes. As opposed to the massacres of me, let the headlines read of our gallant victory For my victory is yours over those who threaten our unity. I am not just a person in a uniform. I am your Soldier Do not let my bravery dissipate to stupidity For I rise,  I obey,  I soldier on still. ©Belema .S.  Ekine ©belemascribbles
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Dec 23, 2018
Dec 23, 2018 at 6:51 PM UTC
SOLDIERING ON
I am not just a person in a uniform, I am a Soldier. Every time I arise,  I obey; Each time she calls, I step up To defend her freedom, To restore her home of peace I arise,  I obey, I soldier on. Into the forest of her terrors I charge, not without fear for that which is mine but with love and strength and faith, I March. Defending the labour of heroes past, I march; fighting for dreams of her children bright- the  future she deserves. I arise, I obey, I soldier on. In the army I serve Nigeria,  my Country with heart, might and spine. Though a thousand times I have fallen, bits and pieces of me, lost to her darkness, still I obey, knowing it may be my last. I arise, leaving my family and friends behind. I obey your call of duty. My service and loyalty I pack on with my combat gear, that you may live to see yet another day, to feel yet another ray of light on your face. I am not just a person in a uniform. I am your Soldier,  the Nigerian Soldier, Ambushed and slaughtered in 40s, 70s and 100 for lack of resources. Bless me O Nigeria as I arise and obey Send me to your enemies with arsenals and might to match the fire in my eyes. As opposed to the massacres of me, let the headlines read of our gallant victory For my victory is yours over those who threaten our unity. I am not just a person in a uniform. I am your Soldier Do not let my bravery dissipate to stupidity For I rise,  I obey,  I soldier on still. ©Belema .S.  Ekine ©belemascribbles
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I just want to ask one question Is the human race obeying the mathematical rule called BODMAS? Just a refresher...   Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction We have created different brackets where we enclose people like casket He's black, she's white, they are rich, those are poor, she's educated, he's religious, he's fat, she's slim... Brackets People are treated differently Based on the class that we've put them in Some are raised to power like exponents Others are trapped in like square roots...Orders The segregation has only intensified our division I don't fit in here, I belong over there My group is stronger, those ones are losers... Division Disunity and absence of love has caused A multiplication of our problems Threats, deportation, persecution We don't like them, we'll bomb them War, insurgency, terrorism, hate speech... Just problems Multiplication Every second, our population is experiencing several additions Our population keeps growing while Our natural resources are being exploited And depleting at a rate faster than our population growth Our resources are experiencing severe subtractions I just want to ask one more time... Aren't we obeying BODMAS?
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Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
BODMAS
Shutting down, My immune system fails, Vulnerable to the germs that breed about the town, One mistake, Protection wasn’t used, Vulnerable to the taunts that make my soft heart break. Although my heart is broken, Words only cut so deep, I know that I am human, Even as I drift to endless sleep. For advice and help – please contact any of the organisations below: Terrence Higgins Trust Web: www.tht.org.uk Helpline: 0845 1221 200 Offers free and confidential services for people with *** Positively Women Web: www.positivelywomen.org.uk Helpline: 020 7713 0222 (staffed by *** positive women: Mon-Fri 10am-4pm) Aidsmap Web: www.aidsmap.com Information, news and resources for people with *** and AIDS. I dedicate this poem to all those who are suffering from HIV/AIDS, those the world has loved and lost through HIV/AIDS and to all of those affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Aug 28, 2012
Aug 28, 2012 at 6:26 AM UTC
AIDS
☮ ☮ ☮ **Society needs more Social Justice. Humanity needs peaceworkers.** Peace and Social Justice must be promoted aggressively. There are inequities that must be addressed. Power is not equally distributed. Neither are resources or wealth. Neither are poetic gifts or vision equitably distributed. Unearned privilege is rampant. Poetry must confront this global crisis of capitalist exploitation and manipulation. Poetry must speak to the masses. Poetry must radicalize and inform consciousness to new levels of social change. Marginalized citizens must be empowered. All ****** gender-based, racial, religious, age-based, homophobic, xenophobic, and gynophobic bigots must be brought to see in a new way through our poetry. Community building and local empowerment are of the order. Our poetry must be global in scope – yet rooted and grounded in local community empowerment. Selfless acts of service to promote and increase Social Justice are needed. Lives selflessly devoted to establishing social justice are called for. Our poetic lives must be laid on the altar of the dis-enfranchised and unrepresented. We, as consciously aware poets, must advocate and speak out for those who have no voice. We, as poets, must, through stirring words of Social Justice, embody through our radical verses the burning hope of a just and sustainable future. This future must become increasingly collective as formerly marginalized consumers become empowered community-builders  –  through our poetry. As poets of the sustainable future we will empower and inform. Our poetry must collectivize, entitle and enslave. We must speak with ONE VOICE: the voice of change and social justice. Our words will rise with healing in their wings and lift whole communities from despair to radicalized self-awareness in communities filled with strident, intolerant and maniacal practitioners of PEACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE. All poets who do not lay their entire creative and lyrical selves on the altar of struggle to bring CHANGE and SOCIAL JUSTICE will be LIQUIDATED by our own EMPOWERED POETRY. IN THE END WE WILL WRITE A PURE POETRY OF SOCIAL CHANGE, ALL IN CAPS, AND THIS POETRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT WILL BE READ OVER THE GRAVES OF ALL SELL-OUT, CORPORATE, FASCIST, SNITCHING, SELFISH, UNEMPOWERED AND UNEMPOWERING TRAITORS AND ENEMIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.  IN THE END THERE WILL BE NO PUNCTUATION OR EVEN WORDS ONLY PURE IMAGES OF CHANGE + VISIONARY COLLABORATION IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION/MAYBE SLASH MARKS/OKAY MAYBE EXCLAMATION POINTS TOO BUT ONLY THOSE ! WHY? BECAUSE THE ONLY GOOD POET IS A LIVING POET WHO HAS LIQUIDATED EVERY FALSE POET NOT COMMITTED TO THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ! LONG LIVE POETRY IN ACTION THROUGH CHANGE! WRITE/SPEAK/AGITATE FOR  SOCIAL JUSTICE  & EMPOWERMENT ! **POETRY IS STRUGGLE☻ STRUGGLE IS CHANGE☻ CHANGE REQUIRES SOCIAL JUSTICE☻ SOCIAL JUSTICE BRINGS PEACE☻ PEACE BRINGS WAR☻ WAR BRINGS CONFUSION & DEATH☻** (SO DON’T BE CONFUSED)
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 9:03 PM UTC
Agitating the Spin Cycle
☮ ☮ ☮ **Society needs more Social Justice. Humanity needs peaceworkers.** Peace and Social Justice must be promoted aggressively. There are inequities that must be addressed. Power is not equally distributed. Neither are resources or wealth. Neither are poetic gifts or vision equitably distributed. Unearned privilege is rampant. Poetry must confront this global crisis of capitalist exploitation and manipulation. Poetry must speak to the masses. Poetry must radicalize and inform consciousness to new levels of social change. Marginalized citizens must be empowered. All ****** gender-based, racial, religious, age-based, homophobic, xenophobic, and gynophobic bigots must be brought to see in a new way through our poetry. Community building and local empowerment are of the order. Our poetry must be global in scope – yet rooted and grounded in local community empowerment. Selfless acts of service to promote and increase Social Justice are needed. Lives selflessly devoted to establishing social justice are called for. Our poetic lives must be laid on the altar of the dis-enfranchised and unrepresented. We, as consciously aware poets, must advocate and speak out for those who have no voice. We, as poets, must, through stirring words of Social Justice, embody through our radical verses the burning hope of a just and sustainable future. This future must become increasingly collective as formerly marginalized consumers become empowered community-builders  –  through our poetry. As poets of the sustainable future we will empower and inform. Our poetry must collectivize, entitle and enslave. We must speak with ONE VOICE: the voice of change and social justice. Our words will rise with healing in their wings and lift whole communities from despair to radicalized self-awareness in communities filled with strident, intolerant and maniacal practitioners of PEACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE. All poets who do not lay their entire creative and lyrical selves on the altar of struggle to bring CHANGE and SOCIAL JUSTICE will be LIQUIDATED by our own EMPOWERED POETRY. IN THE END WE WILL WRITE A PURE POETRY OF SOCIAL CHANGE, ALL IN CAPS, AND THIS POETRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT WILL BE READ OVER THE GRAVES OF ALL SELL-OUT, CORPORATE, FASCIST, SNITCHING, SELFISH, UNEMPOWERED AND UNEMPOWERING TRAITORS AND ENEMIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.  IN THE END THERE WILL BE NO PUNCTUATION OR EVEN WORDS ONLY PURE IMAGES OF CHANGE + VISIONARY COLLABORATION IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION/MAYBE SLASH MARKS/OKAY MAYBE EXCLAMATION POINTS TOO BUT ONLY THOSE ! WHY? BECAUSE THE ONLY GOOD POET IS A LIVING POET WHO HAS LIQUIDATED EVERY FALSE POET NOT COMMITTED TO THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ! LONG LIVE POETRY IN ACTION THROUGH CHANGE! WRITE/SPEAK/AGITATE FOR  SOCIAL JUSTICE  & EMPOWERMENT ! **POETRY IS STRUGGLE☻ STRUGGLE IS CHANGE☻ CHANGE REQUIRES SOCIAL JUSTICE☻ SOCIAL JUSTICE BRINGS PEACE☻ PEACE BRINGS WAR☻ WAR BRINGS CONFUSION & DEATH☻** (SO DON’T BE CONFUSED)
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He looks like a rasta Preaches no money only peace But smokes no **** He’s been sober all his life Like he just got out of rehab But doesn't mind if his friends smoke a couple trees He breaks it down like a b-boy That might of known Michael Jackson Then belts out American country music In the heart of Africa Designs fashion making Europeans wonder If they should colonize Africa again to get his resources. Neo-colonization anyone? He has small money He lives poor But lives rich Has his own humble home Like the adult he’s been since 15 And loves helplessly like he’s still 15 Despite the bruises the world continues to lash on his never aging soul. Ohhh Those bruises must hurt But he’s trying to heal them with his art He is an anomaly Doesn’t fit here or there But anomalies are perfectly normal They choose to sit in there soul Release truth that needs to be told Because it’s only natural Not fabricated The fabricated Really hates it. The fabricated Still takes a taste of it Because they want that Freedom The fabricated Watch in awe They say no You aren’t allowed to do that That’s a contradiction You’re a paradox Social lines wont let you cross that. Get back in line Get back in line Before we shoot you Because we want your freedom too. He’s been shot a couple times I think his soul is his armor But he lives in a human body So you can imagine he’s not all that bullet proof. Even if his body dies one day I swear his soul will live on. His freedom has no expiration date.
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 3:41 AM UTC
You're a contradiction
He looks like a rasta Preaches no money only peace But smokes no **** He’s been sober all his life Like he just got out of rehab But doesn't mind if his friends smoke a couple trees He breaks it down like a b-boy That might of known Michael Jackson Then belts out American country music In the heart of Africa Designs fashion making Europeans wonder If they should colonize Africa again to get his resources. Neo-colonization anyone? He has small money He lives poor But lives rich Has his own humble home Like the adult he’s been since 15 And loves helplessly like he’s still 15 Despite the bruises the world continues to lash on his never aging soul. Ohhh Those bruises must hurt But he’s trying to heal them with his art He is an anomaly Doesn’t fit here or there But anomalies are perfectly normal They choose to sit in there soul Release truth that needs to be told Because it’s only natural Not fabricated The fabricated Really hates it. The fabricated Still takes a taste of it Because they want that Freedom The fabricated Watch in awe They say no You aren’t allowed to do that That’s a contradiction You’re a paradox Social lines wont let you cross that. Get back in line Get back in line Before we shoot you Because we want your freedom too. He’s been shot a couple times I think his soul is his armor But he lives in a human body So you can imagine he’s not all that bullet proof. Even if his body dies one day I swear his soul will live on. His freedom has no expiration date.
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We rode our horses cross-country, Through the nations of the unknown, We survived the snowy mountains, And lived off the land and the trees, Through hot summers and cold winters, Through deserts storms; we circled the trails, We learned from the birds and the bees, We hunted the elk, the deer and the buffalo, We fished to feed the travelling spirit, We turned acorns into flour, We set our senses free. $ Europeans brought Soldiers, missionaries, smallpox, the common cold, scalping, reservations, whisky and the rush for gold. You brought land grabbers, oil barons, fencing, bricks, barbed wire and all the accoutrements of your civilised culture! You made this country your own; and forced it's 1st nation people into a 3rd world culture. You ***** the land of its resources, filled it with waste. You wasted the water to make coke, burgers, and fantasy towns. To reign supreme in a new-world without shame! Savages!
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 4:38 PM UTC
Native
The beloved country Africana can boast of is Ghana. The manana of Africana black star is Ghana A nation rich in culture and natural pasture. Its nature reflects the creatures’ caricature We are black reflecting our true beauty. And we are packed with captivating ability. The typicality of our nationality brings unity. Who knows whether our safety lies in our variety? This unity amidst our diversity is our reportage. About twenty-four million are surviving in our age. Over sixty ethnic groups and fifty-two major languages. There are hundreds of dialects which are to our advantages. In W/A, Ghana records the highest percentage of Christianity… Yet the modernity of our sanity portrays minds of malignity. But the fraternity of our humanity builds our community. The variety of our morality and privity builds our society Who said Ghana cannot be capaciously superfluous? We have the very illustrious and exuberant resources. The elites and the voracity are harnessing the recourses. The destitute remains poor and the gentry linger the forces Our democratic government is an African paradigm. Our peaceful political regime is of no pantomime. Who of course would help us measure corruption? The whole nation would have tensed up to eruption. If not the gargantuan wayomelogy of the wayometer. Who knows whether the next tool would be attameter? Who wouldn’t love to be a proud Ghanaian to enjoy our hilarious fila and jargons tongue can employ
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Mar 22, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 at 7:52 PM UTC
GHANA IS CAPACIOUSLY SUPERFLUOUS
If ever I thought I was worthless useless an empty vessel to hold the blame of the world, I was ignorant. In the shadow of others I did not realize I was outgrowing the limited social garden bed of my ‘friends’ and companions. Friends would be an overstatement and a title many of them have never and will never earn. As a Scorpio my trust is not easily gained, and one lost, it is gone forever. Something in me, though, always forgave, but kept the trespasses against my trust cataloged, loaded, waiting to fire across my synapses is self destruction. If ever I took your interest as a sign of friendship, I was a fool. If ever I opened my heart to you, if ever I extended an almost maternal hand to you I was an idiot. My body has been run ragged with its attempts at pleasing all and apologizing for its darker nature. My narcissism has become a survival mechanism that I once thought needed you. My soul is weary of your needy hands, your open-bird mouth that I keep feeding more and more of my soul. Compassion has an end with me. In this game of survival, I will always be the fittest and you’ve stopped entertaining the animal within me. I am worth so much more than being drained of my entirety. I am manifest energy as you are, as the earth is. Like the Earth my resources have been tapped and I can give no longer. Like the Earth I shall strike with ground shattering vengeance. If ever I thought friendship was giving you everything for nothing in return, I was blind, for I am a Goddess as you are. I am a Goddess as you are a God, and your meager offerings of passing interest and constant need are insufficient. My inner patriarch has fed of your male-centric patterns of thought, and the women of my past lives are too loud in protest for this to continue. I deserve much more than “friends” like you. & most of all If ever I thought my thighs were a sufficient reason for me to hate myself, if ever I thought they were an excuse for you to disrespect me, then I was a ***** Because you are an *** hole. And my body is rad
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM UTC
if ever i
If ever I thought I was worthless useless an empty vessel to hold the blame of the world, I was ignorant. In the shadow of others I did not realize I was outgrowing the limited social garden bed of my ‘friends’ and companions. Friends would be an overstatement and a title many of them have never and will never earn. As a Scorpio my trust is not easily gained, and one lost, it is gone forever. Something in me, though, always forgave, but kept the trespasses against my trust cataloged, loaded, waiting to fire across my synapses is self destruction. If ever I took your interest as a sign of friendship, I was a fool. If ever I opened my heart to you, if ever I extended an almost maternal hand to you I was an idiot. My body has been run ragged with its attempts at pleasing all and apologizing for its darker nature. My narcissism has become a survival mechanism that I once thought needed you. My soul is weary of your needy hands, your open-bird mouth that I keep feeding more and more of my soul. Compassion has an end with me. In this game of survival, I will always be the fittest and you’ve stopped entertaining the animal within me. I am worth so much more than being drained of my entirety. I am manifest energy as you are, as the earth is. Like the Earth my resources have been tapped and I can give no longer. Like the Earth I shall strike with ground shattering vengeance. If ever I thought friendship was giving you everything for nothing in return, I was blind, for I am a Goddess as you are. I am a Goddess as you are a God, and your meager offerings of passing interest and constant need are insufficient. My inner patriarch has fed of your male-centric patterns of thought, and the women of my past lives are too loud in protest for this to continue. I deserve much more than “friends” like you. & most of all If ever I thought my thighs were a sufficient reason for me to hate myself, if ever I thought they were an excuse for you to disrespect me, then I was a ***** Because you are an *** hole. And my body is rad
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Welcome,welcome White dove The hatred wall That estranged cousins Have begun to fall When love Incarnated in white dove Started to fly high Over Ethiopian- Eritrean sky. Welcome,welcome White dove You are an antidote Border dispute to solve. Welcome,welcome White dove Ethiopia's  port problem Eritrea's financial-return Challenges You are sure to dissolve. Welcome,welcome White dove Tourism and trade Must spur ahead. So to wipe out Dislike's filth Let us put a glove. Welcome,welcome White dove To make up for Lost resources and chances Also the two cousins From dislike to absolve.//
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 2:45 AM UTC
Welcome white dove
When you hear the word scarcity It's fundamental. It doesn't sound pretty and it's a factor that's environmental. Unlimited wants and needs to fulfill, Insufficient productive resources of society. Only few have good will This feeling isn't pleasant, and its anxiety
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 10:20 AM UTC
Scarcity
Once I was alive and full of mystery But now I am dying and full of misery Soon all that will be left is dirt and dust My molten sphere will begin to rust Fossil fuels, logging, factories and pollution I am dying but yet you have found no solution Yet you continue to consume without any thought Pretty soon resources, there will be naught Time isn’t on my side nor is the human population Only your obliviousness and ignorance has put me in this situation The weather cycles are getting stranger and stranger by the day Heat is building up on the ice caps dirt and clay The sea level is continuously rising And animal species are slowly dying Soon I’ll be nothing but disastrous ruins You must stop what you have been doing Cries of agony are an endless groan I am slowly dying and all alone Sadly my unrenewable products are beginning to run out You destroy everything that gets in your way without a single doubt You say you are humans but yet you show no humanity You have brought me to my insanity Animals and plants are only just surviving But yet you humans are still thriving You know what you are doing My broken world will be your undoing Perhaps you will never learn that my awful slow demise Was because you never even tried to compromised If in the end you try to save me from my tragic fate It will it be too little too late /gt
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 7:55 PM UTC
Too little too late
The trees are my lungs The wilderness is my heart The waves are my song The beauty is my art The storms are my anger The rain is my pain The mountains are my anchor The rivers are my veins The climate is my fight The roots are my feet The sun is my sight The moon is my sleep The wind is my power The fire is my fear Humans are my disaster So, let me make myself clear Stop using me as your credit card, My resources are running out You are the reason for my scars I thunder – can’t you hear me shout? My heart is the wilderness But there isn’t much left of it Like a failed romance, I feel weakness You have made my heart split I can’t breathe, I can’t cry I roar with thunder and I spit fire I am sick, I don’t want to die Rewild my heart and I’ll be stronger
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Jan 8, 2021
Jan 8, 2021 at 12:59 PM UTC
My Name is Gaia