the earth quenched her thirst again dried up your blood & feasted as we cried watching us doubt, as we clenched our faith the sand misses the quality of your steps in hand-stitched Italians that you loved all your promises are phoenixes with ashes all of mine are now blamed on lack of time this […]

I’ll tell no one decency means; We would go slower And maybe that would feel less sinful I’d undress you with my eyes first And invite my tongue to the party No teeth, I promise. Only gentle fingers. We would be decent enough; Straighten the sheets after we are done If we have time, we […]

carefully, knit your words wisely what worst can occur than this? being born a man is already one nil being born in Africa makes it two these customs are who we are guard your penis against perfidy don’t overshare your burdens to listening ears without helping hands wear no blame for society’s woes you have […]

I’d rather be shameless expressing my love in proses and roses in telepathy and sight I’d not stop to build this bridge hoping that you’d one day pass again with forgiveness in your bag your fingers laced with a kiss your eyes longing for mine Tomide Abdul

the thoughts taunt my sleep the regrets of entering that room where air held nothing to remember I’m learning to carry the scar of sharing smiles and time of kissing with closed eyes of eating, swallowing the spill of giving words, meaning them yours was a poem not to be written an archipelago not to […]

Headlamps in an afternoon Tell the story of an impending danger Till we find out otherwise It happened so often You don’t know what to do Headlamps in an afternoon Somewhere else it could be winter Fogs have to be broken through Tell the story of an impending danger Here we pray for false alarms […]

Is that what happens to beauty They are and tomorrow they are not It is the way of the seasons I wore high heels like on wheels And sped like i’m high on weeds Is that what happens to beauty Guess you get away with youth Blow your trumpet as loud They are and tomorrow […]

she believed in his eyes his nice gifts made her smile the world is hers to take she’s all he wants to see her father left early died with a low profile she turned her uncle’s cake life happens for a fee her first moan was of pains and tears kept her awake it was […]

There are only two options in life To take or leave Yes or no Live or die Eat or go hungry Love or hate War or peace Master or slave You cannot put One leg in the oven And the other In the fridge. Bose.

from a forced sleep to the struggles with the consent to wake from closed eyes to strained, to opened from a type of death to revival to earth the gift to walk, talk the gift to mourn, moan not be the one gone soon for light to guide at noon and to guide at night […]