Coffee

Coffee, sweet coffee

You are inevitable!

You warm me when I am cold

You make me get to work

I feel sad when you are left out in the compound

And rain drains your purity

Like a worn-out flower

Battered by the sun

As a child, I remember when…

I would pick you up from under the tree

And watch you dry up for sale

Then buy cookies and balloons

I hate to see them

Planting you on the bleak soil

And expecting you to retain your beauty

By feeding you with fertilizers

Not all hope is gone

Gradually but surely, you will rise again

Farmers are making everything possible

To uplift your growth and development

Rapacity

Twas on a black Thursday they were slain
The innocent children knew not the pain
Obedient to their mother they stayed
And missed the school they swayed

She ordered them to wash their feet
And then their hearts began to beat
She knotted their necks with a chain
What a mother, with a scratched brain!

Their bodies lay as white as snow
With no tomorrow and fame to show
Some parents’ violence is too much to bear
Yet some couples have no child to show care

Clemency

You would loom
Zoom like a sneaky roach
To the city high rage
Head high, pinky-inky
Gum-in-chew
Smoky maw
A decade down the road
You got it all
But got none in sense
It is never too late
To live in the light
He said………….
Seek, you shall find
God wants you
To live a new Life
He Loves You

Disquieted

If I let go
To search for
And find not
What will I live for?

Pluckier

Thoughts are undulating my palm
Akin to the squashy stream
Staring explicitly at my blankness; they recognise
Before I could respire
I close my eyes
And feel my heart thrashing within, soothing tempo
It takes my fear over
Briskly into my gullet
They say….
Don’t slash the thread that joins you to veracity.
Don’t be afraid of the white sheet
Write down something….

If I pull this off...

Maybe I should hark
And not tell I'll hit a mark
If I pull this off
For a friend...

Will he peck me?
Will he hug me?
Or will he cry,
'O you're a genius?'

That we shall know
If I pull this off
For a friend!

Life

That spot,
Friendly to her
So quite and peaceful,
Placed my little nephew.

The sun was always dazzling
Stars would sparkle
The sky was navy
However, he saw none.

For nine months,
He has been in the dreamland
Now, it is time,
To face the wonderland

For a man was born
To encounter challenges
Deal with conflict and change
That is what life is all about.