*sigh*

My head aches
My body aches

Jolted by the saddening epiphany
My beloved country wails in aches far worse

But why?
*sigh* 

Epizoon

As a woman is said to be "heavy"

So can same be hypothetically said of me

Way too heavy to move

Blessed ability of kinetics

Hardly ever failed not to prove

Cursed disability of statics

Thus unable to correspond the groove

Filtering into my lobes of audibility

Slithering into my sutures of sanity

Blistering my dearest faculty

Endangering my fairest fragility

Complexity doth warringly lay siege

Simplicity battles to retain prestige

Connectivity staggers to balance a bridge

What shall I do?

What say thee?

                                                                                                                                                ©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Another Day

Another day it is today

Yesterday the stray

Skies all dark 'n gray

Pitches of Skylar Grey

Today the fade in hade

On the morrow we fly away

                                                                                                                                                ©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Chaste

Chase after excellence with utmost diligence

Let success overwhelm you like recess

Wealth sneak up on you in slink stealth

Thus shall history record and tell your story

Quit existing and start living

Heroes

…so we struggle for meaning; for purpose

In the end you find...'tis one coated in another

Our shared experiences, so fantastic

To find kindred

To connect; finding another like an one

The discovery; a connection deeper than the skin

Knowledge by heart

You're not alone

For this cause

Many crash and burn; burnt in pause

Others bonded as clause

Hearts ravished in applause

We remain

Vanquished ‘n slain

Victors in plain

Heroes

Ethos

I live by a code - Ethos

Don't buy in? Some stones for ya; eat those

I sing

I dance

I write

Never do I wattle my vines in page

Plus I never battle my lines on stage

Neither do I rattle my spines of sage

Never you thought

Never you believed

Never you foresaw

Patronized my patsy

Fraternized my vasty

Putrefied; Le palsy

Your feel - Suicide

Your guilt - Fratricide

Mira

I feel like we're all chasing shadows

Beacons of far faded glows

Decades of lung-breathed toxin

Thank goodness I ain't in a coffin

Certainly too brief a life

Piles of grief left behind

Relationships grown old

Cords of cordial waxed cold

Yet I hope 'n pray for that miracle

Gunning for the pinnacle

If you knew how far I came

Where I am and where I used to be

You would fall in love with me

And of course I mean every bit of me

Me plus you; together as bliss for ‘we’

Today I crawl in the valley

Halt your judgmental advance

In due time; my star, my shine

Mira

My Father, My Prayer

Seven years of bad luck and it ain't over….

Waddling sorry duck; nothing seems any better

Tell me you know that song

Perhaps we could get a sing-along

Never mind, the chorus ain't that long

You might mumble a few words right or wrong

Will I be rich or poor?

I cannot but implore

These thoughts plague me sore

Can someone please shut the door?

None of these to think no more

Just a moment with my core

Peradventure I could dream a bright future

My Father, my Papa

How I love to call You by name

Shall Your mercy come?

This one is near dead

Your wealth in health quick be done

Health in wealth like a lottery won

Here and near just like 'the beyond'

A little intervention in but a second

To you who rode upon palm fronds

I pray in earnest bonds

My Father, my Papa

Biko! I don tire

                                                               

                                                                                       

Mo Juba (I Reverrence)

I awoke

And now, I assuredly am awake

….in the wee of day

My heart sings, my lips say

Both of thy 'how' and 'way'

Energy from synergy

Kinesis from synesis

Sight from (in) light

All I want is You

Take over my sober

'Till I am consumed

By nothing, nothing else but You

My life 'n strife

My will 'n shrill

My right 'n might

Pink in my slink

Milk in my silk

Lord of exactitude

Pardon my aptitude

Here’s my gratitude

Jesu! Mo juba re o!

©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Occupants

Why are we here?

What really is the soul?

Why canst we see?

You see, I see...

All we see >> tangential reflections

Why do we dream?

Where leads our sojourn?

Are we truly on a journey?

Illuminant truths

Such has none

Yet we struggle for a difference

To change the world; the dream of hope

Never known for certain, who, what we meet along the way

Who amongst us 'occupants'?

Yet unknown to us; at present, strangers

Will hold our hands; touch our hearts

Dare and share the pain of trying

Bear in bare; the depth of falling

Never!

None!

©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Quest Solvent

Pains entrant from the outside

Feelings felt on the inside

Loud and clear via pinnae

Yes, you heard

Call to this great quest

The need for a solvent

Perplexed of life's mysteries

Depress the press

The press in your head; answers for questions

Actions and decisions

Who shall proffer?

Whence shall they emerge?

©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Sire Gentle

The air beneath my feet is made of bricks

I could tell just from the feel

With each step tempting a peel

You melt my heart to stone

My soul crushed to bone

To the skies I cry via telephone

Dooms day I wish to postpone

Save me the drone

Make me a clone

Right outta my rib cone

Or at least fix me this hone

Same which I have and do hone

Lest I writhe 'n moan

Sick am I of my very own tone

By now, Your light should've shown

None other have I got

You alone fuel my breathing gut

Boy, am I an-hungred...venison of Your pot

Signaled Verizon, safe in cot

Pass me not "Sire Gentle"

Cast thy sight to behold my tears

Hear my humble cry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Voila

You dream of hope

You dream of change

Fire, Love, Death, Life

Turns out the dream is all real

The answer to this quest

All that is needed to solve life's mysteries

Finally shows itself

Like the glowing light of a new dawn

The rays of morning light

Streaking in through gap between the curtains

Emanating outta its long-term hiding place

VOILA!

                                                                                                         ©Adejobi Israel Oreoluwa

Together

Worry at bay? You don't say

This day not of (for) the fray

Nonetheless, help is on the way

Dramatic like stage-play

Together, we'll smile and sway