Standing on time bomb
No parachutes, down I fell
Into the hot pit of hell
Roasting up in everyday
On the queue to better days
Sadly, I am the laughing stock
But I do not give a single fuck!
Against all odds, with an aim
To have success, my name to claim
Under lit candles I bent my neck
Hoping the sky will give me a perk
But the blurred dark cloud extended
Turning lionhearted to an hen,
If you were me, what will you do
When legit fails to pay the dues.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Candles and shelves
For sands of time, I burn candles
Studying to rebuild cradles
For my linage to have a name
So baskets shall always retain
Best of best, in societies
Making money an easy tea.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Instinct pranks
We discover other functions
Of a table during a caution
Hiding underneath it and on top
We sneak between the poles as it pops
It is fair to say, like sun goes out
For another day we run from fight.
A creeping object was on our coach
Thinking it was a brown cockroach…
Many options ran in speed of light
As a response to the flight and fright
Most times we try to shoe running horse
Instead of crosschecking before us.
Swift as a jet, we went on both heels
Funny, but it was an onion peel
At that point, we acted on false alarm
While running, we almost broke an arm
At the end of the day we then smiled
At our stupidity, don’t ask why.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Save another victim
Blood on my hands, only ghosts comprehend
Vouching for a lion action is like defending
Children outside their mother’s womb
I and many others, are buried alive in tomb
Yesterday, I stared at the living dead
It took my strength, several rivers I cried
I tried to scream, I tried stretching my hands
Front and back, he thrust fast and hard.
He got up, tucked his lobe inside his robe
Ripped off, I stared at the miserably ropes
My brain boiled, my heavy heart brawled
As tears dripped, so did my bloods crawl
I had always thought he couldn’t hurt a fly
Little did I know like a fox he was a sly
How could safe haven bring terror to me
…Hi everyone, an angel did this to me!
Stop condemning and casting stones at me
For accusing an Angel who keeps abusing me
Kill me if you may, but save another child
Act now, justice delayed is justice denied.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Nigeria: The emigrates
We are weak at knees but our huts
Are built by hands not plucked off trees
We invest a lot to get no gain
And it seems we are meant for pains,
Hence, we all book an appointment
At embassies, for better breath
Reducing working hands to few
Dragging luggage on a long queue
Waiting for our time, most times by feet
For days, we hiss crossing deserts,
Sore ligaments, many breakdown
Others sex slaved, we kiss and frown…
Yet these greedy green grasshoppers
We voted and call our Nation leaders
Are not perturbed that we flood out
Neither are they concerned we blackout.
Do not fall like the cards in rows
Do not spiral out of control
So keep doing that you are good at
Live to tell the tales, of your kites
I am not Martin Luther King
But, I have a dream and it’s big
That one day there shall be an end
To our foolishness and dying beds
I know we are knotted by tight ties,
And the Devil may cry, but not die
No matter the prayers and ill-words…
But; one good day, he shall be bored
And then our town shall abort all
Evils, and cut off greedy claws
To transform grasshoppers to ants
Building shelters and making plans.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Breath of good news
Today I read the newspapers
I felt wounded and so bittered;
No good news like yesterdays
And days before yesterdays.
Go call me all the journalist
Bloggers and media analyst
Tell them all, I have breaking news
Cool and fresh, like the morning dews.
Beautiful headlines but lengthy
Hence, they need uncountable sheets;
More than bad viral and the floods
But why do we so love discord?
Today I read the newspapers
I felt wounded and so bittered
No good news like yesterdays
And days before yesterdays
For God sake billions can still breath
Plenty lives are swept off their feet
Plenty victories are achieved
Plenty more than reported mischiefs
Plenty lovely words are exchanged
Plenty goodness across all stages
Plenty sparkles from good friendship
Worth read, waking up from a sleep.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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The bravery of a rain
As vapor condensed in the atmosphere
So is the sphere of a man not treated fair!
Well, I have never seen a man bold as the rain
Although I hear, there are ways to hold the rain
Not in terms of clinch, grip, catch and fetch
But spirituality in ways that thoughts can’t mesh
Others says, it is the fume from salts and burnt leaf
Coupled with incantations to mystify beliefs
And that sometimes, it comes with thunder
Either from Nature or a fighting Rainmaker
All Rainmakers know, you can’t shove a natural force
And keep expecting it not to build on the parse.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Marriage: Her disturbances
I picked up a four leaf clover
And her love has taken over
To points of disturbances…
At times things I don’t fancy
Are what she chokes on me
Like anklets on a heavy heel
And beautiful icing on a cake
She mix trouble into sweet flakes
Whose true taste is in the eating
And rude polite awakening,
My wife, my world, the joy I chose
Tender and sweet like tiger toes
No hedge between keeps the home green
Her philosophy, no vent spleen.
The moon wanes while the roaster crows
Over my body she will roll
Waking me up against my wish
Stuck on me, my heart she fills
Her disturbances have a sauce
Apart from her, no better source.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Joy in the tears
O the walls are falling down
Even when I smiled or frowned.
A million tears flowing fast,
From emotion and its blast
Trying to fight it so hard
But it flows like the sea kinds.
In touching moments, shed tears
Are weird, but are far from fears
Falling on the cheeks and lips
How the hard nuts lost its grips….
Have you ever had a gush
Running out against your wish?
Not for any form of pains
Neither scars from sticks and canes
Or from any bitter past
But happiness prayed to last
Controlled by our emotions
Flowing fast like an ocean…….
I have, and it felt so great
Bet; you wouldn’t regret it.
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Onyeche, Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Finding tracks
We are in abundance
Yet we complain of darkness.
Inside pits, that are shallow;
We hide behind the shadow.
Our melanin we pour ore
Under the hot scorching sun;
Hot-cakes fly like birds, to lands
Where they can be better brands.
Leaving behind, the half baked
To dictate, the give and take,
Talking; whereas, as critics
We bury the beams and rays
Yet we beg for candlelights
From the waxes we burnt out.
