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Nothing
Shall we talk about nothing
Which is what we do everyday
Wasting our breath on issues
That affect us in no way
Or perhaps we could do nothing
Just sit and waste the day away
Never raising a finger
To stop harm coming our way
In the end we become nothing
Just faces that soon fade
And all that is remembered
is the nothingness we gave
By Daniel Sakumai
Without daddy's embrace
Silent tears only God sees
An empty stomach only He can feel
Deep hurt only God knows
Loneliness that besets in my father's absence
God alone testifies
Moments I can never share
growing up in daddy's embrace
A gap in time
not my fault
for I shall never know why
daddy never came home
All my mummy's relatives hate him so
Mummy never mentions his name
I sneak glances at old photographs
a stranger to me, my daddy is
who can never return my love
and my hope
Everyday I pray to God
to end this aching heart
help to understand why
daddy never came home again
By Julie Mota
That girl
She surrenders at the impatient door
A smile so lovely invites my soul to the banquet
Her scent is hypnotic
Faint of deep jungle musk
My soul and more is elevated
Her language is the articulate of unspeakable passion
Yet serene and pacified
Almost like daydream
I find myself troubled again
I lose myself to the fall
Hysterical...Damn it!
The seasons have revealed my follies
The wind of change is not come
My passion has unbridled
My reason, I have none
I have become as the sons of Mother Yesteryears
I have become numb to reason
I feel her rub
As certain as my firmness
It feels like a man
Maybe, I am now half the man I used to be
Maybe I have become a clone myself
I watch myself become the victim
To the sweetness of seductions
And even if heaven and earth forbids
This act of unholy matrimony
I would have eaten of her fruit still
For it is sweet
It tastes of sin
By David Soroda
Hello pumpkin
He's losing sleep
Wondering what went wrong
Was it something he said
Something he forgot to do
Tossing and turning
Should he call to appease?
Silly, sulking woman
So difficult to please
Her phone rings
Oh, let it be him, please
"Hello pumpkin"
Yes, it's him, tensions ease
Her heart flutters
But he mustn't know
About her sleepless nights
How she missed him so
How she'd yearned for this very call
"So what took you so long"
He's losing sleep
Wondering what went wrong
By Manayo Bagodu
 
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