Faint, thin dust stuck in air. Hearts slowly in thud awakening. Frail, unlocked hands fetching thick sleep until reality now belches. Alabaster. Fraud, ghost town in my burning. Seeking the real light Atlantis. – Ruddapoet —————————————————————————- Heart Beating fast Reaching distance vast Away from the past Blast! Reality Looking unreal Feeling the opposite Like clouds […]

Can I touch you? Can I roam your soul free? Oh! You thought I meant your body Well, not unless that is who you are All body and no soul. But I was hoping you would be.. Nobody and a soul filled with stars A pair of galaxies for windows And heart too huge to […]

Dark Lights out “The first night” Kissed her nose instead Shy. Hijab Gurl —————————————————————- Blunder Recorded past Unending self talks Can’t correct the past Regrets -Omolola —————————————————————– Dailed Her Number Mistook her voice. Spoke to her mom Mistake. Bang1. —————————————————————— Bungled Hiding, mystifying Well within shells Afraid of the light Rotting. -Seun ——————————————————————- Fail Try […]

If I’ve been there and it was good I will always want with you So I’ll keep the link And like a ship, our bond can’t sink If you hurt me and it heals I won’t remember how it feels To be sore to the teeth From an emotional pinch So let’s keep windows open […]

A four cornered confinement Worse off behind bars Chains unseen are the hardest to break Society puts us in this thing With rules and high walls Religious and social scores And when man’s time run out He’s confined to a smaller box Only chocolates do well in boxes Hybrid —————————————————————————- Dos and don’ts Musts and […]

The soul becomes bright When the heart is light Lets seize the chance And tango in a heavenly dance Blissful are the times Submerged in emotions, we become mimes Heart beats grow into loud chimes Random sounds, no definite rhymes The floor and feet clash Birth of a beautiful clap Flare of flames of passion […]

This house has become too quiet again Noiseless like the night slowly passing by Shushing the Aardvark, the Cats and Aye-aye Perfect image a mirror should contain. This emptiness wears a similar scent; Strange! The smell,strong. The song, wrong. Like open doors our hearts are apart, flung- The slates soiled by her weak stubborn dent […]

Sprouts of green and lucious stems On land assumed to had been dead Amidst stones and rocks, a seed grows Despite dusk and dawn, a seed sown Has found its own way to sunlight Through the cracks in the ground, we see A tender bud push it’s way through Though darkness engulfs underground A seed […]