TOWARD DECOMPARTMENTALIZING NIGERIA Few days ago we celebrated Nigeria at 54, where we had so many sanctimonious patriots who claim to be true citizens of a country where ethnic differences and cultural segregations seem to be worn like a cap on the heads of almost every citizen of Nigeria; the aroma of the decaying frame … Continue reading Towards “Decompartmentalizing” Nigeria
The King Is Silent Tossing and turning in the vine Of where there used to be flowers and wine With children playing and singing the song And busy mothers in sonorous tone The vine was calm and all was pure In our tranquil and peaceful grandeur Like the night when angels fly Fluttering and waving … Continue reading The King Is Silent
Africa must wake up To the songs of break up From corruption as a cup That we drink from and sup Africa must wake up From the slumber of death Lest insecurity takes our breath And selfishness our wealth Africa must wake up From Leviathan’s doom Before we enter into that loom Prepared in that … Continue reading Africa Must Wake Up
In my dream, I saw them coming in torrents With unshealthed swords of pride Basking in the euphoria of vain victory Putting on armour of ill vices Their sight so dreadful and alarming At a moment, I looked, Above the hills a glowing from afar, So bright I couldn’t behold such sight. I looked, I … Continue reading Sigh
When darkness has world’s attention The earth is filled with damnation No man can get his bearing Always will man be tearing The world is prepared to destroy For death a bomb they deploy The peace we see is in thwart Such war we thought will be fought Alas! He still is waiting For the … Continue reading Novus Ordo Seclorum II
An era of the new star A period of the just born Where the canny dominates The generation that creates A domineering stage of life Of all human race and strife Beyond the hills of imagination Above the thought of creation Away from the face of he That makes all things to be Who made … Continue reading Novus Ordo Seclorum
Dear man I call I wish I understood it all I wish you never did the crime I wish you believed in that time I wish the flesh was ever dead I wish that you never said I wish I was in that room I wish I saw you in that loom I wish you … Continue reading I Wish
My father was a prestigious man So lugubrious he had to die I was just at the age of twelve When i was told he was away Naive of why he committed the crime; He took the life he never owned He burnt himself alive For nine years of my life I have been in … Continue reading On His Death
I know what you think That I will leave you to sink I know you want it more My feelings I promise to pour The fruit in an unknown tree I bet will never be I spoke the voice of your heart I believe with only you I sat I don’t know what else to … Continue reading I’ll Try
The buzzing of the bees I call The chirping of the birds I saw The meowing of the dying cat All this are all I saw and sat Why on earth do they exist? For ages such question can’t resist The blindness of the poorest bat All this are all I saw and sat My … Continue reading All I Saw and Sat
A poem for your sake is nothing of praise I bid to express what is felt at ease For this;my only medium out of ways For speaking fades but writng never cease Thou art Queen of which city? Or from what home? For beauty knows your name,ugliness hates Can’t tell your beauty,tell are you from … Continue reading A Sonnet In Your Name
I miss my pen that writes My feelings,my thoughts,my sights I miss the sheet that knows All mood and all it owes I know my heart to strife For a long and blissful life I had to go away As time has led the way Success is all I crave For even to my grave … Continue reading My Pen
You say love a mental state I beg to differ at any rate To let you be of the know That love is gradual and slow A single facet of the coin So soothing even to the loin Love is so much indellible Even greatest eraser can’t erase Love is what you see … Continue reading So Sweet
The mistake I made was to let my heart deceive True love I did not receive Despite all I wanted to achieve For selfishness is all I believe The mistake I made was to let her a less priority Despite all faithfulness and loyalty Like a rag I meted thus Being ignorance of my loss … Continue reading The Mistake I Made
Walking through the dark In the gleaming night Destruction I await Frustration I expect I have jumped passed many hurdles I have conceived in my heart The certain joy of tomorrow But when is the day? The war I experienced is tiring What fate is man desiring Like the journey of a tossing coin Who … Continue reading A Warrior’s Fate