Ojedokun Adeola Poems

Turn the gold round my neck, and i'll hold you close to me,
Choose to keep me closer, and i'll call you mine.
Keep me in your bossom, i'll keep feeding your bowels
Say you'll stay forever, i'll live with you forever.
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Laid on her palms, gold, silver and jewelries
Of indigenous quality, not like the old path
That made her scream for justice, but for now that
Gives her choices.
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I used to love you, i still love you, i'll ever love you.
Smiles we shared, you now shed.
Hopes we both tread, you now tend.
Times we both counted/used, now go tickling by your eyes.
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When sudden smiles turns sour, silence creeps in stealing talents
replacing hopes with dreads, then the desire for a better life calls for feed within thousand ripples, or may be more.
Those letters can only link a parchment, can't restore lost fragments.
Words are better done than said when life counts slowly on beats.
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I made some promises, few ones
Long, long, sometimes long ago.
I made few promises to myself
My heart and my future.
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I want to be free!
I want to be free as possible
I want to live a life free of figs
Free from things that made me think I'm timid.
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Can i have it?
Can i have a taste of you again?
I tasted it once
It tasted sweet, creamy, sumptuous, yummy
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The past few days
I have heard voices i can't understand.
The past few days
I've heard the moon speak tales, tales I’ve long foreseen.
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How long can I rely on this deep sigh of yours?
Do you mean every gesture you’re showing now?
Is this gonna be a lasting treasure
Or a random memory, that’ll bring painful pressures…
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In holes we lay our folds believing in tomorrow
That todays sorrow will become hollows,
If today we borrow tomorrow we'll burrow.
Though the land is fallow and the harvest shallow
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