A Stitch
A needle and thimble My fingers do tremble For I took them out After much preamble Will I remember a stitch I learnt a decade and a half ago? Threads of silk Veins of cotton Skeins of varying colors To…
In-Sync
I don’t want a relationship, I want a happy life; I don’t want to be a girlfriend ‘cause I want to be your loving wife. I don’t want depression, neither any sort of expensive thing; Just your truest affection and…
Glowing
She is a celebration of colour and metal. bright eyes pulled wide and heavy with paint her decorated skin rising with the crowd she is glowing she is wild. She is a riot of shining, skinny limbs black hair framed…
Secluded.
If only we could choose the Days of woes Possibly sometimes snooze the trouble that follows. Every time I fall I stay still, like a doll Nothing to hold onto Not even a wall. I rage in silence If not…
I Bequeath
Stars shine the brightest, Now all have lost their glow! Honey tastes the sweetest, Now even a drop gives me a bitter blow! Once I preferred the company of extravagant beauties, All I now see is a heavy dosage of…
Voice of an Expat
The smell of boiling rice from the kitchen reminds me of you Ma, Now I’m recalling the times we sat together And how you served us lunch from the little you cooked. Coming home to this fancy apartment in the…
As an African child.
As an African child I crawled on my mama’s arms Searching for an imaginary house Which bore me with a fancy view Of the passing clouds upon my head. As an African child I jumped many times of seeing the…
Awaiting death
The blazing fire did not seem bright As darkness was closing in It seemed to take its own pace As it was not in haste Some find that grateful Yet, it wasn’t so for the one by the chair For…
Complaints.
I fill my days complaining I fill my days whining I fill my days moaning Of all that is not right. I fill my days grumbling I fill my days worrying I fill my days all grouchy In spite of…
Procrastination
I hardly believe in second chances. Once a cheater is always a cheater. You can frantically doubt my stances, Like I am standing in your way obscure. It’s purely my madness, Thinking of this cold blooded massacre, Disguised as a…
The Whitest of Clouds
Sky is blue, And mostly It’s true. The darkest of clouds, Cut loose, Rains and drizzles, No gleam, and sometimes even the whitest of cloud trespassed. While spectating the shower, Like every drop thoughts change. And for some To pause…
Fallen
My gaze caught a flaunting leaf, Brown, dusky, old and fallen. Rustling doughtily to the tune played by the; Gusty wind, with a high relief. Chilling with absolute poise and grace Despite cringe and dead within. No grandeur conquered yet…
Thinking.
Days pass by, Some days start blissfully, Some other days start miserably, But, Love of my life, He sticks to my mind like no others, Perhaps, we may not be in good terms, Yet, thoughts about him will float firmly,…
Dear Sally
Scribble scrabble Goes the couple Dilly dally Goes dear Sally I will pluck my love A bucket of rose And hope to God She doesn’t grow old.
Hundreds of memories
Thousands of hope Millions of stories Beyond one’s scope. Only if I could Turn back it’s pages I probably would Rectify its stages. But now that I know I cannot return I will gradually show From what I did learn.…
Gratitude
As the passing clouds we go Across the various stages of life Amongst the unknown, our victory we sow As unyielding as a swordsman’s knife Rise we shall, even when we fall As we were blessed by the best With…