What they said
Times and times I've
Heard people say:
I think he's crazy;
I don't even trust him.
But to me,
That isn't funny.
It's not so bad
That a boy so haggard,
Should write poems
That are so sad.
What they don't realise
That life had been so hard,
Wealthy brothers
Wont lend a helping hand;
Related relatives
Won't take him to America
In too much haste
They climb those ladders,
And forget needy brothers
In their hate.
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Poem Of The Day
Poem of the day;
I write one everyday,
It speaks all I have
to say,
I say you hate
to be bound in chains
I say you hate
to be taken a slave.
But why do we hate
When the world
belong to us anyway.
Why do we feel shamed
When we fail
Along the way?
Why is it so difficult
To pick ourselves up
And give it a try again?
Why do we say,
we love and
worship God
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A Little of Me
Two girls,
Blowing fire in my brain
How do you manage polygamy
Well, I leave that for the Arab
Or better still, my dad
He had four wives
My mum was first.
There was no peace in the house
No love in the heart
And so she left
That day she wept
While I slept
I did not know what breakup meant
For I was young
I felt we just had to move on
Today I feel dad was crazy
Leaving a wife with three kids
And extending no helping hand
But that was not the end
We suffered,
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Africa of My Dream
Africa, my Africa of my dream
Here is where I want to be
And here I have always been,
At my end, here is where I want to sleep.
Africa, I have been away for too long
Please don't cry for me my mother
Twenty years is a long time to be
Away from home,
But I am still here, my one home
My Africa, my Africa of my dream
Many are leaving, leaving for America,
But I am still here and here
Is where I will always be,
My Africa is my America.
We are working towards that,
A better Africa, a great Africa!
This is Africa of my dream,
My Africa is my America.
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True Love
For those unlucky in love
In your feelin' of sadness
and forlon,
Love songs will always be
wrong
That feelin' of dejection in
your hurt;
Courtship and your the period
of friendship,
The feelin' you can't survive
without that companionship
Had been created for a reason.
Until the true meaning is found
Your heart, love will always
confound.
The feelin' of love in itself
is deception.
You cry, and you feel you
will die in your moment
of rejection.
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Silent Girl [Reprise]
That silent girl broke my heart
That's her passing now
That silent girl I gave my love
It is her paid me with hurt
What would I say to this silent girl
When all she reply is silence
Maybe if I were to be a silent boy
I wound understand the tongue of silence
But I am no silent boy you see
But I love you like the waters in the sea
It flows and flows and never dries up
Please teach me to be a silent boy
So I can love you in silence
Share with you, your sweet and sad moments.
Silent girl of the river goddess
you are silent, I am silent,
Will you hear me?
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For My Little Sister
My little sister
Janeth likes
To be with me,
And she smiled
For me each time
Admire her ten
Year old smile,
She said I'm special
And I think she
Is too.
But our fate is
Different so I left
Jane to search
For a better life.
Now I miss Jane so
Much after so many
Years abroad.
But I wish Jane dont,
Cry for me, cause i know
I don't deserve her tears
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My Africa, My Home
My Africa, my home
As I cast back my mind
To the days before I left
Before you left me impotent
Before the wars broke
Before thieves and looters
Who parade themselves
As politicians
Took over your affairs
Before morale and hopes
were lost, and both old
And young, left your shores
To 'I dont know where'
When I think of what
This modernization has
Don to you, I weep;
men, thinking, and inventing
Everyday, new and more sophistcated kinds of weapons
For the destruction of the
Fellow man.
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A Girl Has Died
Tonight a girl has died
So sad, I hear the loved ones cry
And cold has been the night
That run shivers down my spine.
So broken, I have no tears to cry.
Angels do not die;
Forever they will always fly,
And I know my bride had not died,
She has found favour with Christ,
And forever she will fly;
High in the sky;
She'll bring love to mankind
The ones hope had left their side.
Christ! please be with my bride,
So broken, I have no tears to cry.
But with you, I know she'll rise.
Bringing hope to mankind;
The ones love had left their side,
As angels will always fly.
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A Sonnet Of Fantasy
In my heart, your eyes flashes in my dark,
And in my dark, you capture my very heart.
I see your soul wanderd to worlds unknown,
And caught me so broken in my own home.
I don't drowse nor slumber without seeing you,
And you have become my fantasy too.
I could stare at your eyes a million years,
And go with you anywhere, even Hell.
I would like to write you a thousand poems,
For you are the best no one could contest.
I would love to marry you tomorrow,
And drain away every of your sorrow.
Wish if I could lie beside you everynight,
And end this fantasy and dream of mine.
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