Joan of Ark
Joan of Arc
I had not been told much about you,
But I know how much the world
can be so cruel.
Thousands you had conquered with
the rage of your lance,
Warfare should not be something
of an art,
But then I had felt the love of God
in your heart.
Like a a witch you were bound
and burnt in a stake
But today in our hearts you live
as a saint,
Let not the world you strove to create
be forgotten,
As our sins we pray and hope to be
forgiven.
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I Am Not Afraid Of The Rain
I am not afraid of the rain
Let it fal & make me wet
I want to know what you feel
Because I dont love you today
Maybe tomorrow I'll find love
In you
Everyday my world is fading
Bring me back to where I began
Show me where to find love in you
Let the rain fal again & again
Let showers of ur love
Take me to my dreams
I can hear love caling
And death lurking
But I am not afraid of what
The rain will bring
Because I am only dreaming
In my metaphor
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Lagos Island [The Governor]
Yet another day on Lagos Island,
Met the governor busy at his
Gardened secretariat.
There he was, frenzied and smiling
At the jokes his sycophants
where telling;
Sir, we have made a new budget
We can now afford for a private jet.
Men in politics should live happy
and big
And sir, your excellency sir, you should not be an exception to it.
Forget the citizens they could never see,
We shall keep them in dark
As we plant more flowers all around.
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Tribute to failed generation
When in a pensive mood
I sit and ponder
My life past
I wonder if I have
Failed my generation,
If I have faild my
National heroes
And then if I have
Failed my fathers
But then there are
So much I can do
To redeem my
Nation
So much I can do
To redeem my generation
Even when I grow old
I would have much still to do
To make positive
Impact
In peoples' lives.
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Giant Thunder
Giant Thunder, striking hard
I wonder if anyone's heard
Its not raining hard
But this Thunder is roaring louder
Women, children runing
Helter skelter
Not done yet? This roaring Thunder is shouting even louder
I fright at the sight
I want to join the women
Children running
Even the trees and wind have
Joined in this chaos
Women, children, men, even
Wind, trees running helter skelter
The Thunder never stops striking
And the Cloud, never stops crying.
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A Dream Of Yesterday
I never dreamed
For twenty years
But yesterday I dreamed
Of yesterday
In my dream I saw
You reaching out for me
But I could not hold on
For I was drowning
Drowning in my world
Of uncertainties
In my dream
I Heard my country caling
And your love faling
But I dont want to die
For my country
And I dont want to die for you
But if death is inevitable
Then I'm ready to be
At its table
At the end of my dream
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Diary Of a Madman
What could it mean.
Living beyond shame and fear of the unknown.
Insanity is incredible
And sanity is unstable
The diary of the insane is history.
And memory is long lost in the desert
Of the heart.
To an insane,
Sanity is insanity
And insanity is sanity.
The soul of an insane has gone far beyond earth.
But the sane is oblivious
Of the fate of his own soul
After the final call.
Above all,
Is sanity sane?
No. For bad temperament is
Madness in itself.
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A Song of End
Death is hell my dear
Lets enjoy the pleasure
In our treasure,
As our health we measure.
Lets sit and smile,
As we remember old times
Of our lives.
Death is inevitable my love
As hell is inevitable.
Lets sit at it table and dine
Away our time.
Lets bare our hearts
As we look back in nostalgia,
Remembering old times
As we make up for our past wrongs.
Yesterday is history my love,
Today is our own.
Lets live it all today like tomorrow
Will never come.
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Poem for my Grandmother
By the time
I knew grandmother
She was no more
It took sisteen-years
To know
Of her pains
On that sick bed,
My sisteen-year-old
Knowingness was shocked
To hear mum narrate her past
Grandmother as indeed a great
Woman n her life time.
Each time I go to her grave
I break down and cried for her,
I wish grandmother saw
The best of me
Before she was taken to the beyond
I know she would be proud of me
Let this poem of mine
Be for her,
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The Church Will Steal Your Money
When I said the Church
Will steal your money;
Hypocrites stoop and
Say I'm greedy.
But I entreat thee
Consult thy memory
Who said my God
Is hungry?
He has all to His means
in Heavenly.
Legions of angels
At His bid and calling.
Your service should be
For humanity.
I mean the ones who
are needy.
Let us now look back
To the time of Christ
He never asked for
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