ode to a very special friend

Oluwakemi

The first time I saw you Was the day the you gave a full smile That caught the attention of the crescent sun It was the day I came out of darkness Because you chose to become my light My own crescent sun It was a day my dreams ended Because you chose to become a reality That day was glorious bright The lustrous green leaves gave a charming smile To the appearance of the golden sun The birds were free-flying upon the sky’s table The rivers poured stylishly into the bounty of the Flowing sea’s pool Everything was good and in order I knew from your eyes That I had no more secrets You are my hidden secrets exposed From your hair down to your feet I knew God painstakingly spent extra days To create a mortal like you for me When God was creating a million And when God completed the whole creation Out of the billion, you outshine their union You are true because you are rarer You are not an Angel, Angels are meant to serve men Y...

To the Lady, Ifeoluwa

To the lady, Ifeoluwa To the lady with the sweetest smiles and brownie eyes This was never meant to be written It was meant to be words of love Passionately pouring into your bloodstream Traveling steadily down the planes of your nerves Flowing into every corners in your heart It was meant to take you and take you over To break your guards and open chapters of love in your heart To the lady with the sweetest voice and cutest pitch This was never meant to be a poem It was meant to sweep you off your feet and make your heart skip a beat It was meant to be torrents of emotional words Filling every space within your world Touching all the glittering spot of your sweet soul Bringing you into life of love where two hearts beat as one Luring you into a blissful world of ecstatic devoid of fantasy To this lady with a soft soul and a fine feet This was never meant to be written in letters It was meant to be engraved withi...

Tribute

Tribute to Nigerians Who lived to fight But died at bullets sight For justice, for equity For change, for betterment Tribute to Nigerians Whose smiles suffer them And their cries are never heard Who suffers for daily bread While deep inside, they bleed Tribute to Nigerians Who wake up early to sleep late Hawking for bread, hustling in stress Working, but worked out Striving, but starved to death Tribute to Nigerians Who did not place religion above man But place man above religion Who are their brother’s keeper Who honours the difference in others Tribute to Nigerians Whose friends betrayed and colleagues dismayed In prisons and cell blocks for no offense Praying yet; yet prayed for their foes Men of valour, buried without honour Tribute to Nigerians Who saw political fraudsters and liars And were brave enough to stand their feet Not corrupt by lies, not swayed by bribes Who in t...

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