Those Night I Was Awake Poem by Micheal Olaniyi

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Billions of thoughts
Run and Scream across
Always, whenever I lay
This makes me awake
Till my mind goes numb.

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Like the dark moments, when things seems to fall apart,
I whisper to the shadow without an heart.
'Am I really alone'?
I thought my sins I could never atone.


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I dreaded for my dreams
And pitied how my oil
Dropped heavily on my rooftop,
Staining my white top
And turned me a clown on the street.

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Those nights when the thought of home flipped through my mind,
Like a disappeared ghost,
Mum's soup,
Tobi's lollipop.
Neighbours and their loupe

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My mind wanders around like the blind
And my heart follows like a lamb
Begging around for more thoughts
To and fro the road of memories

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In the twilight I cling to my pillow,
For He has withdraw,
Leaving me awake and cold
With no one to hold

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Like the road not taken
I felt bushy
Like the path not taken
I felt useless
And sometimes lost in mysteries


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Believe me,
Those night I just had to be me,
The walls were my companion
As I talk to them like the champion.
Memories we shared wanders around

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At times I think of being great
Sometimes I think of the grave,
When i turn a late.
These are goods and bads
I think whenever I'm awake

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Those nights,
I see glooming days afar,
Those nights,
I see my self home
Those nights,
I see Him back to keep me warm,
Those nights,
I see friends celebrating success,
Those nights,
I dream of a bright Nigeria