Ugochukwu Aneke

Know ye the truth & it shall set ye free
Oneness should flow naturally not imposed
Like a green fetus corded to a white woman
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When men seem to let go patience
And seek gratification as essence
Knowing of ends rather than means
Look away brother, and die the eagerness
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They count their holy beads with life claws
Awe that Muham'd came & stood for peace
Fingered-hands say the Roman rosary
O Mother-mary, regarding less the Lords Words
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Man proposes, God disposes in time
The servants least awaited the end of the fattened cow
Neither did the prodigal's father see a starry sign
The prodigal tho' his share, had swine meals to gnaw
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Tailors do wish to bribe the barking time -
And jump the cue to make a swift delivery.
Bankers eat their cake to grant a loan -
And have it back from the sold collateral.
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Ruth excelled in naive innocence
Sowed a seed purely for the purity of adulthood
Until the shoot of her flower got torn
She lost faith & wallowed away adamantly
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In the cold moonlight
Under the Lamped haven, dearth of moths
Each four household in seclusion sat
And languished events of their importunate thoughts
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Atimes, I wallow in shallow thoughts
Vivid portraits of the event stays
Sand paths never were ways
Could there be different devoted salts?
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With pure alluvial, I'll pay a price -
To the cemetery ferry-man -
To lead me to the vast catacomb
Where even the gabbiest are dumb
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Sympathy alone accompanies my senses
No father to cloth my unclad self
My members left unkempt; result of no family
my tears wept by the rain & not a mother
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It takes a rare eye to see a smell
Tho' man is endowed with vanishing virtues
It is the remains not the man,
That rot in the masses of the mould
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My soul smells soft dust
That do burst the yolk of my wet eyes
And decay being its thrust worst
To the host flesh that must allow death.
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