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Passage
I see laughter in your face, it has become the only tribal mark you wear so perfectly. The lines that form beside your nose speak well of the beauty that encircles your dark eyes. I see memories snoring in your chin, They drip down into your fingertips...
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Facial
photocredit- pinterest Your face retains beauty like clay does water. It sits like a bird on a tree branch, whistling across the hinterlands in search for anyone listening to the melody it pours out. It looks like drizzling rain, sliding down from cocoyam...
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Strength
photocredit- pinterest The sun never refuses to shine, the moon never refuses to shed light. The rain never refuses to pour down pieces of itself, why do you refuse to shine? Do not shelf your body into a box of shame and regrets. If you destroy this...
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Sprint
photocredit- Saddi Khali In days your body will break, skin will crack like a stuttering laughter, like antique walls struck by time. Don’t choke in fear, but smile in wonder, for you too are capable of housing thunder so let them ride on like fire chariots...
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What Then is Love?
photocredit - Lexonart So what then is love? This feeling we all crave for Dribbling at the center of life Making passes at those who call for it Whose skillful enough to catch? What is this thing we call love Is it the numbness of familiar voices? Just...
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Squash
photocredit - Lexonart The ball was in you court And YES, you squashed it, One how, Somehow, You said it You’re the man now, Her dimples embraced the word like the nostrils does breath She didn’t let them touch the ground, For her over-exposure might...
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Questions
photocredit - lexonart You bend on one knee, Gentle as can be As you stare at happiness right in the eye, With a handful of questions Your heart is a tabloid of requests now You’ve missed your punchlines for the first time, You’re bankrupt of words now,...
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A Love Story
Your voice stands at the corridor of your mouth, Too scared to mumble a whisper Too shy to puke a word As her smile says hello, And your goosebumps respond in halo They’re butterflies in your head now, A crown of flowers hovering around Like a caravan...
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The Chain
photocredit- Adrian McDonald “My daughter, as you go to your husband’s house be very submissive. Learn to tender to his needs all the time and at whatever time he demands of you. He is your Lord, make sure you remember this always. Remember to give his...
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Scare The Dark
You too can scare the dark Just tuck in your fear, Walk into it You see? There was really nothing in there after all, Sometimes a step is the antidote to doubt So how big are your feet? Are they mountains tied to them? Are you too frozen to move? Too...
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Brace Up
Brace up dear friend, For days will come, When your smile will lack vigor And you will console your soul in psalms It’s not just you For everyone has had their share of life’ lot Some worse Some worst Life doesn’t pick its candidate It’s a ballot system...
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Eulogy
photocredit- Adrian McDonald Now I boil my skin daily with prayers, like a cow’s feet hoping it softens enough to soothe my Lord’s taste. Now I soak my face in Mary Kay, like a splash of rainbow hoping it twinkles to soothe his gaze. His loins got these...
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Brand New Wife
Photocredit- Adrian McDonald “My daughter, as you go to your husband’s house be very submissive. Learn to tender to his needs all the time and at whatever time he demands of you. He is your Lord, make sure you remember this always. Remember to give his...
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Love Day
The day you find love, Everything will move in slow motion Beginning from her walk, To your smile which will know no menopause You will watch carefully, As wonder gallops down your throat Like a can of chilled coca-cola Commanding your eyes to a standstill,...
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Cold Flame
Maybe I’m the first to say these things, Maybe I’m not But if there’s ever a reliable teller of this truth, Then let it be me To say that your face carries a warm laugh, Nestled in every chuckle they cede The wave in your voice, Gives way to a river bank...
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Mushroom
When your heart fails, We would share mine For in this beating mushroom, There’s space for two When your tear becomes liquor, We would drink from same cup together When you need to talk, I’ll be your bank of secrets When your eye whistles pain, I’ll be...
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The Exchange
photocredit- Adrian McDonald Immediately Father said “i give out your hand in marriage”, was when I knew I had been sold out. The ribbon in my hands felt tight like a clutch. “I bless you into marriage” was a word too strange to say. There was the mortar...
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Jimmy Hat
The day you see life in a jimmy hat, You might be the holder Or a beholder of the holder, Either way they is a holding As it swings its way into condemnation You never gave this life a chance to live, For you the choice was yours to make So you made one...
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Steam
In the heat of the moment, Everything is possible He makes them seem possible He could give you the world just to stay inside you To feel the safety only your between is capable of giving He’ll whisper words into your ears Promises made on a deadbeat...
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Handy Marriage
My hand in marriage. That was all and what he asked for I guess that was all he wanted, my hands, the multitasking machine. His loins needed these hands his stomach and dishes needed these hands too his bed needed these hands. And his ego, to nurture...
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Your Back
Starring at your back, I don’t know when I sketched my mother’s face on them How her’s like yours speaks in same tongue, Telling me, That love is a meal best served black Best enjoyed with tales of home and the longing for it Your back is a map, Clear...
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The Memory Keeper
In the days, When your body looks like a fashion statement Adorned in the craft of hands that make beauty from rubbles You’ll see the world in monochrome A blend of art and science At that time, The only thing you see is magic You, you have become one...
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No Air
For days will come, When you’ll run out of breath You’ll watch yourself gasp for air, As breath is just a finger away You’ll feel your lungs suffocate in thin air The very it’s aching for In these days, You’ll understand something, That sometimes breath...
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Suicide
Death never notifies of it’s coming There’s no prior info as to it’s visiting No time to prep up our homes before leaving Never to return, Never to see the faces we once and always loved But how be it so, That sometimes we make the call We become the...
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Redial
Do not imprison your freedom, Own yourself Stop walking around with a bald hope, For you too can draw water from stone Just squeeze hard, harder and harder, A drop of it is all you need to see the next day Do not go to bed with a stunted smile, Put laughter...
