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A brush with death
The air begins to leak
Inevitably,
During a brush with death
We are unable
But beckon for breath
Running from rest we seek.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Lament on democracy
Two sides are the axis
In every question.
The only stupid question
Is the one never asked
When one end of the shore
Is infected by crowded greed
The other end not tread
Will be rumored as the cure.
Whereas both ends are paths
To the same governance fact.
Whether Hitler won or not
Dishonesty comes by default.
Don’t tell me of other homes
And how theirs have zero germs
Don’t tell me, who I am
Nor say to me, I am a scam
Ask yourself these questions
Are you in perfection
Do you hit fifty percent
Efficiency as a democrat?
I know you are not an Angel,
Our problem is not an emblem
But you and you among them
Who couldn’t win but joined them
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Way to top
Between the top and the bottom
Blue is the sky across the bridge
Halfway through, the end always shift
Hoping to reach the other side
Therein bliss, sweet, milk and honey
Though, obstacles do exist
Before we get to promise land.
But every time we chicken out
On the first sight of hazard sign
Or upon sounds, when across it
There are no hitches nor glitches
Thus; an objective to maintain
All we have gained onto our names
And new status in hall of fame.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnets: Why envy mine
Because I spark
You gather smokes
To dim my light
Whereas the sky
Has lots to share
In cloaks of light
Bright and clear.
Plane not a bird;
Yet, you still try
To pull me down.
Whereas the sky
Is big enough
For all of us
To roam and fly.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Same air we breath
Both spots differ,
But lines are thin.
Big cities have
Lots of cravings;
Lovely to dwell
Whereas ghettos
Win nothing good
When you compare.
Take a step out
Toss your head up
There is one sun,
Same stars and moon.
Same air we breath
Sharing same depth.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Success overnight
I pray for just a day to come
When I shall wear the best of smiles.
Dance like I have never before,
So the world know a kid is born
Not out of luck but through hard work
My golden pen will be happy,
Top we made it, through thick and thin.
I look forward to such a day
When the green grass will be a grace
And the fruits shall nourish my tracts
For talents had performed and waited
But fate failed to understand
Blessings should not come as disguise
Form of curses, tears, pains and regrets.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Stepping stones to dive
Patiently, I waited for dews
A million miles from you
The mentality saddens me
Legit jobs, now a mockery…
But that I do on stepping stones
Until I dive into deep blue sea
To become as fresh as fish.
Picking from the bottommost
Treasures of reward at its best
On your fast lane dubiousness
You mock my steps and dryness
Saying I never would quench a taste
But you will unendingly thrust
In the sea of oozing wealth.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Dying on board
The needles and syringe
Has worked, from winter,
Through summer and spring…
…Terminal it is!
Repeating cycles
Just so to cheat death
“You got just few hours”;
Then said men in whites
Several stuffs
Puffed wide, through his brains
“Oh, is this the end”;
He said to himself.
He could feel curtains
Closing fast on him
Even when movies
Had only began
All his smiles then froze
Head over shoulder
He close his cold eyes
Slowly blinking twice.
Stranger in the states
While living his life
So he owed to death
His flesh on home soil
But the stress when gone
And cost to incur
Transporting his corpse
Would be hot as hell
So he then embarked
On a journey home
From great Atlanta
At least while he breaths
Delta flight took off
Cruising altitudes
Eight hours on the air
Three hours to touchdown
Friendly shadows came
Passing through his flesh
He could feel his leg
Kicking the buckets
Off jurisdiction
His greatest joy was;
Tragedy but brave
And just humanly.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Nigeria: Frowns of chicks
In the farm, there are many preys
But we count the number of crates
Bountiful harvest; all we pray
Running fast from all the lichen,
And the butchers in the kitchen
The hatchlings of the fat chicken…
Prays to survive daily movements
Tailored by kettles, pans and pots
The authority is corrupt
Dispensing tears, hardship and fear
To be fair, if you make it here
I bet, you can make it anywhere.
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Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Entrusting death
Death, I know that you can sting
Poison my wine, I will drink
For if I begin to count
The knives, arrows and bullets
You have put into my chest
The ears that hear will go deaf
For eyes that saw still shed tears.
Death, I know that you can bite Between those claws and white teeth
I give you reasonable doubts
Not because, am scared of you
Nor because, am weak to fight
But, that stinging bees build hives
And ants that bite, still build hills.
