Abdulrasheed Dawodu Poems

A walk through the night
Before it gives birth to her own day
Just the night
Just me in the night
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I dwell in a garden, so green
With colourful roses
In full bloom
Oh! These weeds!
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Mine is a curious heart
And what does it crave?
Tranquility it is yet to find
For how long can it wait?
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Living in diaspora
Alone away from home
Living in the land of oaks and timbers
Avarice; their worthy religion
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Looking at you with a smile
How can you be best qualified
Angel or goddess-like
In confusion I lie
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Here I stand
Just outside your well guarded heart
Heavily fenced like a palisade
Hard to penetrate
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My brain
A home of countless ideas
My mind
A house of thousand thoughts
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O spirit
Scepter, subjects stumble for
The immortal who dies
God knows when
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Caught up inside a bird's nest
Wondering what might happen next

Beckoned by a lioness into her den
Knowing for sure what happens after then
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Just when I was; depressed,
Overwhelmed with solitude,
Suppressed by loneliness
And engulfed by the claws of boredom
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