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These tales were written on these walls Peaceful nights Coal for the fire in the coldest hearts Eyes are shut but the ears hear the footsteps behind the walls. Light wrestles the overwhelming darkness That cast spell and brings fear Which day is less darker and strange?  Where is the watchman that survives a day to tell the story? The hearts of men pound Some for fear and others for evil The order is a sequel That so many read about but disbelieved Until they met the devil in the book. Men play hide and seek with the enemy And the lads learn the coward-way These were the tales written on these walls. The Danes and arrows; the unused toys Buried in the basement for the days of sport And hearts beat like drums Yet the drumming grows quieter before death. They die before knowing death They leave without footprints They robbed life the many years it wanted to stay It still is the same today.

I sat clicking my fingers Feeling grateful and dammed Remorseful and shamed. A stranger took me by the hand Walked me through the plain gardens of Tanzania He picked a healthy rose and a dying rose My commonest friend He offered  me both And he left me to decide. Am afraid I've never lost anything that is mine I was careless yet still The God of the Book stressed emphasis on me My commonest fears he secured And I rested my head ever since. My commonest friend left me to reflect this glory and concern This love I've unlearned The power I've downtrodden its prowess. Minutes ago I was brooding with the 'where' and the 'how' I woke half the city searching for my spoon I slept too deep and my head spooled In the dead of the night I felt naked My commonest friend took the fur and the sheets That made me sweat while asleep He knew what needed to be done and he did. The last minutes were tensed I was amazed it could happen to anyo...

I know a people, a kindred They live in hamlets In a mosaic of nuclear settlement From the bank of the river Benue Down to the falls of the Niger This is their birth place The land is theirs and a heritage At the bottom of ethnicity they thrive They speak the language, They identify with the root. They smile, paddling canoes through the thickest waters Fishing the sea with the earnest plea That they'll find a friend in the deepest sea. They drag their nets with ceasing breath Hoping for a catch that could sink a boat At the end of the day when night falls En route home the spun tales of bravery. At the cliff of great view Where eyes explore the terrains of neighboring territories They seek business and pleasure beyond these borders From the heights they witness each others plight With arms of love stretched out Cries are heard and sympathy sails. I know a place where They wake up at morn to fetch water Even before the cock crows Where mothers are th...

If you have a name I want to hear it If you have a place just let me visit. If you have a need just let me know If you have a trick show me how it works. If you have a dream let me make it happen If you have a team introduce me to them. If you have fears let me to face them If you have a tear let me dry them up. If you are feeling pains show me where it hurts If you have a stain let me wash them away. If you have a hole in your heart tell me how deep it is If you have any problem let me be the first to know. If you have a heart just show me that you do If you have too many thoughts running in your head let me into your head. If you have a word just say it out If that word is love let me reprise with you. If there's this thing that makes you smile just let me know it If you want to hear a joke let me be your comedian. If you want a crown just let your highness know If you want a gown just let me choose it for you. Whatever you do whatever it i...

Love is a girl she's beautiful In the kitchen she prepares my favorite my tongue has found a habitat in her delicacies morn  by morn I grace her table. Love is a bird flying in the blue sky all we have is the vast feathers floating us together we can fly anywhere. Love is a boy just yesterday he was crawling leaning against the odds of blunt feelings growing up to love her the more then comes that day  he proposes to her. Love is my name how often I rare in existence but in the lips of love birds am a morning tweet, reading just fine in life's scale.

Thought we'd throw the keys away Smile innocently, Thought we'd share a glimpse of the moon Outside my corridor Alas I forgot so soon That breath was the lord's. I became as pale as you were When your lungs were weary and worn Lost like the hope that came first Dreadful like an evening without trust Out there it was cold and you shivered Your sheets didn't save you You tongue was filled with prayers unfiltered And you wondered what you did to deserve this. Oh I thought we'd hold hands as we walk past the sellers We'd smile and learn how to step dance I am not awaken anymore than I am dead I realise the stories weren't tales while I was here But she said it anyways "when I die bury the flower too".

Life and then colour, it was blank without honours so much more as if we had withered long ago but still living and breathing. My story was three storey with a wooden floor and a balcony of diagonal carvings, there I sat all day watching the trucks that roll pass my gates, they headed somewhere my soul craved but desires were better a birds song, one you couldn't tell what the message was but a message was passed. I looked down and my tears nearly dropped, was hoping for bliss with all these diamonds and glitters but something was cold like in the fridge and it ran through my spines' ingredient. I had a birth mark I was told but there's too many scars I couldn't tell, I searched my whole body to find a link between the sweetest part of the past I've forgotten and the bitterly sugared days am living, I found none. Before I get too affectionate with pain and pay for the mistakes I've made, there is a bridge in my hometown from where I would see clearly the provoc...

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