IN A WHILE

I haven’t blogged in a while, I keep giving excuses but I hope God gives me the strength to do so more often, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I came across two poems I wrote in 2005…wow, that’s a long time ago, was probably in the last semester of my first year then..Just thought I should share them. The first one re-instates my phobia for Lagos…phew…goes to show my phobia didn’t start today and I think I must have written the second one at some “trying point” in my teenage life…lol, it leans a bit towards suicidal tendency…hehehe..just kidding. It’s good to dig up the past sometimes and compare it with how far we’ve come and bless God for what we’ve become. Anyways, enjoy my amateur poetry.

1. CITY LIFE

Tooting horns
Angry drivers
Impatient pedestrians
Crying babies
Hungry beggers
Lurking pick-pockets
Dirty drains
Dusty cars
Overcrowded buses
Sweaty bodies
Vain prostitutes
Overgrown bushes
vicious psycos
Lagos life
City life.





2. SOLITUDE

All i ask is solitude
to bask in the sunshine
happy and content
to stand erect in the rain
and watch it wash away my pain
oblivious of the giant tress
which stand like huge pillars

All i ask is solitude
to escape the noise if the crowded city
and wander in the beautiful gardens
which smell of musk and heaven
alone and merry
in pure sheer delight of nudity
with the cool mist resting on my body

All i ask is solitude
to be alone for once
and understand what it feels like
to do whatever i wish to do
without wagging tongues and pointing fingers
to scream, shout and vent out
fury which have been locked up
like the aged volcanic mountains

All i ask is solitude
leave me and let me be
let me express my innermost desires
let me be me
let my voice be heard
high above the realms of Pluto
leave me please
all i ask is solitude!