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When you realise

 When you realise that The dark eyed child, dying in an earthquake The child and waiting culture The dying man carried by his children The children burning on infernos Or matched by the Fulanis All wailed and cried When you realise That the orphans going to bed hungry Or going to bed raped And having the lost helpless look in their eyes All looked to heaven and wailed When you realise That cries of pain And the sisypean loop of tragedy and success Never end You know that in the end, the truly pure are  The truly forsaken
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Dreams

 We meet in dreams Across the chasm of the unspoken There our eyes meets Our hands touch And our hearts say what they wish to say We love in dreams with our silent words Our healing touch  Our defiant heart that draws us close Amidst several waters In dreams we are safe To say and to stare To love and to hope We meet in dreams  Because reality is strange And placed us in the prisons of our hands
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Mother Dearest

 I never knew of hugs or bosoms of comfort I never felt your hands caressing my strong kinky hair But I knew of your words Unkind and cruel that haunted me like a ghost I knew I was ugly and was not much I knew I would find the home in chaos with screams and pain in my eyes and in my soul I knew I never had a home so I would search forever for one Mother Dearest now you try to hug me when we meet but I never knew how it felt to hug you and I cannot do that now Now you wish to laugh and talk with me but mother your words and your deeds belie your nonsense chatter you are the pain that seeks the multitude in my destruction like the two-faced Janus  I can never trust I sought you when I came of age away and safe from your rage to find out why But you would not tell me why a girl  could not find safety in her mother's arms when I sought your face from the turbulent storms, you laughed in delight for you thought  my end was near Now you hobble in age and you pray  for all will be well w
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Shield

I hide myself now From prying eyes and talking lips Hearts that have brought me sorrows Souls that have brought me no respite You weary me, friend finders Lovers seekers I have no answers for your internal quest Your minds are stagnated in the loop of want and desire Your thoughts dwell on the mortal And weary me I shield myself from you as I search within For questions and the answers and hopes and dreams And await ephiphany Years have been lost In your furtive eyes Your hollow speech Your descent into mortality Your cheap desires I shield myself from you
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Aunty Jummai's house

 Aunty Jummai's house in GRA Was heaven to me It smelled of vanilla cake Frostind and fried flour dough You could be sure of cold kunun zaki And a thousand and one delights It held a trove of treasures, where we read And read and played and ate Aunty Jummai's house in GRA was one of delightful memories that brings to me a smile on my face and the fragrance of childhood to my nose. 
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The Prize

 They were the prize they said But I saw as a child How they discarded those they unwanted Pretty Toyin with her permed hair Crying over the aged bachelor in her boys quarter Beautiful Maryam The newscaster who was a corper Who had her things thrown out in the streets of Bolori They were the prize they said And held the power over tears And happiness Over self Leaving a string of sorrow and sadness Of pursuit and conquer Of lust and desire The prize of chaos
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The Lovers

 There  we fell In the midst of their drama The desperate one  And the mischievous one Despair in her eyes Mischief and despair in his eyes We were the threats she screamed at him Pleading for love He laughed like one stuck  In a Sisyphean loop of infinite games We weren't ready for that We were there for the Mr. Biggs Burgers And not the Shakeperean tragedy But I learnt also Never to plead for love
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