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Marry Me
I wasn't raised to flirt with your emotionsI learnt from Father's eyes that that's not what real men doI'm asking you to help me build our castleI'm asking you to share in my joy as well as my painI'm asking you to share in my losses as well as my gain...
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Face It
I love the reality of your faceThe freckles glued to them like seals from heavenI see the forest over your eyesThe fact that they're yet to witness defforestationYet to feel the harshness of a razor I gaze at your earlaps on aweAs it seems like the world's...
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Receiving End
photocredit- Adrian McDonald In the end, You’re the one at the receiving end the one who goes home rusty the certificate will have your name on it whether or not you’re up to it it’s up to you to defend it life is a pack full than we see it how do you...
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THE EYE OF PERSPECTIVES 4
From the eye of a poet . The world is rhythmic in themes that are different in approach but as matching as a rhyme His story is an allegory that interprets the depth of human thought As he interprets his idea He puts on their shoes to feel, hear and see...
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The System
Dear you, The system designed for you, Isn’t working for you The system is a loop of history, Nothings changing Same curriculum, same old blood, same old dead ideas The system is killing you, Deep inside, you know it’s true You know this, When you’re...
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Busy City
In the midst of a city so busy Where dreams are born and some buried Failure stands a whistle away Waiting to embrace the voice of whoever calls it In the midst of a city so busy Where focus stands confused Heartbreak becomes a natural disaster And feelings...
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Shirt
Confidence is a shirt Short sleeved; round necked Soaked in white Although none sees the stars breathing on it’s padded shoulders How the wearer lavishes laughter on it’s chest How the earth carries the weight of his feet And how his steps seem similar...
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Letters
If you agree we’re all different, Why are we then tested with the same means? And whoever said this means was valid anyways? Why am I too dumb for not knowing math’s, but yet too weak for being vest in literature? Why am I called lazy for not wanting...
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Candles
Photocredit - Ufana Ishoyor We are society’s contraband, tomorrow’s leaders they say, But how can we lead when we’ve been disciple’s life long? When all we do is follow And never question the leader? When our bulbs are fire extinguished and we’re given...
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Find X
Welcome, To the tension room In here, You take what you’re given without questioning the giver Wrong or right Believe me; it will help you live longer Swallow what you know For too much knowledge in here is not good, for your own good, so keep your wisdom...
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Joy In Jail
On this day, We’ll watch the sun pat the sky in the back As it bleeds scripts We soak our souls in ink And watch our fists blink in sorrow On this day, Our tears will echo to the depths of the heavens As we roar with rusted emotions We mourn for the living...
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Wait-in-line
School; School is the green word for mortuary, See as they sit in coffins disguised as classrooms look deep, how many mortuaries can you see? with corpses just too many breathing corpses, watch, as the teacher, reads out their eulogies in form of a lecture...
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Edu-tension
photocredit - Adrian McDonald In this wall of a free prison You’re not told how to think but what to Come, take a tour round Allow me be your guide see the decay with me watch as we go extinct before time as we do the opposite of progress Stare at the...
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Virgo
Whoever said virginity was female? A weight the she’s were only born to carry And in the mercy of a raging sun Man shades himself from this stigma Too scared to be identified as one So quickly he denounces like being one was wrong What is wrong with being...
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MILES ON FOOT
I’d travel miles on foot Employ mind as steering Navigate through potholes and tantrum traffic Stroll back into time Uproot the fossils of history And reread the scrolls just to update your memory That you are life itself Designed to give to those who...
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The Request
I'm not saying I'm bestBut none of my lovers have regretted yetSo try me, take a betFetch a sip off my affectionAnd taste from the cup of my promises Let the rainbow be our own signalAnd you'll see that us is a convenant decreed before the floodBecause...
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Black Girl
Black girl...If only you knew the sun shines through your faceThe moon folds at the altar of your smileThe stars shiver in warmth the opening your eyesNature stares and beats it chest in wonder And God says to Himself "welldone "So why do you shrink your...
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Monochrome
Whoever said BLACK was evil And WHITE was pure? The black man is not your enemy Neither is the white your prey The black man is not the devils kin Neither is the white all knowing Since when did colors become determinants for behavior? For even evil itself...
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Sanctuary
Until you learn to treat your body like a sanctuary And let those smiles congregate on the altar of your face Do not shield yourself from the sun when it rains Allow your skin soak deep Let it simmer through every fiber of your being You don’t need a...
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Johnny Walker
You think you’ve seen enough already Well, brace up For somedays your eyes will lose appetite for sight Your skin will fold into itself And you will become a mini-waterfall You will become a stringless guitar And you might still rain in dry season You...
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Free-son
How free is freedom? I mean, who ever said it were free anyways? In a distant city built not too far away from man’s consciousness He finds himself frozen in a cage made by himself for himself Freedom is the new word for prison; Liberal prison Freedom...
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IRIS
I have lived Long enough But yet long enough to filter truth from lies Long enough to understand that all that glitters is not gold And sometimes wood shines brighter than diamond I have seen that the first draft of love gives a smooth feeling swiftly...
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Marriage
Whoever said you had to marry same person twice? All in the guise of traditional and white Whoever said you needed a gown or suit and tie Like your union were useless without both being unified Whoever said you can’t use one stone to kill two birds If...
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Ask The Black Man
Ask a black man about the color of the sun And he'll tell you it's golden He'll tell you that the stars have a light switch And his melanin eyes regulate their intensity He'll tell you that the sky is a mix of different colors Synoymous to the ankara...
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The Unconscious King
So he wakes up; In the awe of it all Oblivious of nothing but the present With a thousand and one question choking for answers He has none; How funny can it be? When a second ago you were absence And all of a sudden you became child of dust in the other...
