Adebayo Smartfingers

In this world, am nothing but a passerby,
My years are counting, my days are numbered,
After my demise, for what shall I be remembered?
Will my footprints be on the sands of the earth?
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Christmas was some hours away
Goats, chickens & rams await their fate
Kids & folks all in dire expectation of the D-Day, i hung out with a date
The evil that befell men that day has no equal or mate
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With sleepy eyeballs
Heavy eyelids
Tir'd body system
Weary brain that work bit-by-bit
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As the sun bade a gloomy farewell to the land
The lumber moon came out with its luminescence
The noisy birds retired to their nest & the musical crickets formed their band
Darkness shone her eyes ubiquitously
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“For how long? ” I asked, you said: “very soon”
We hold hands, talk on phone for ‘eternity’
Am not bothered about the shopping spree
Coz I know love comes not free
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My hand is stained
My heart is tainted
With disloyalty, my life i have painted
My love for righteousness has fainted
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My heartbeat is running ten thousand miles
sleep has deserted my eyes
But why? why did i choose to be like a toy at the mercy of a baby's pranks?
I'd never envisage my life to go this way
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Let not the antelope be overjoyed or feel important
It may be big and agile, it is still susceptible to the sting of the ant
The hunter that follows its trail without bounds
Is much aware that in the bush, other meats abounds!
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Separating a tortoise from its shell depicts its tragic death
What am about to tell you may make your heart melt
But i promise you, its not that bad, like the way i was when we met
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For the fear of your father's gun
Am sending my aunt's son
Coz, i miss you like crazy
Without you my day has been hazy
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The D-Day is here, a time to EXAMINe our AcTIONS;
Heads sunk in sheets, eyes scanned through mind-throbbing questions
The hall was as silent as a graveyard
The silence was so intense that even a deaf person can hear heartbeats
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For how long will i walk in SOLITUDE
Why is love so harsh, why does it seems RUDE
As time goes by, i dread my patience will DIMINISH
O! When will it end, when will my tears FINISH?
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Mothers of many, hater of none, in this world you are No.1
Give me the drums, give me the horn
Let me play a tune of ecstasy to the ears of my first love
In her haven of peace i hibernated for months
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Am down with too much love in my heart
My Doctor said I should keep low; my fat
I’d hope he will say: “keep your heart away from the path
of love that kept making it stray and deluded
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Am sinking deep into the hollow
Shallow world of your heart
What do I seek? You keep
Acting like you dunno!
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There are so many things I should have done
I ought to make hays while the sun shines
Alas, I made mine when the sun is long gone
Here I am walking down memory lane million times
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With love, comes anxiousness
A love that is not busy (thinking about the other) is definitely lazy
A love that is not anxious is down with fuzziness
Obsession, anxiety, infatuation are the businesses of love
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Flaunt no more your ‘weapons’
In them, my ‘selective’ eyes take no delight
Like a disingenuous advert offering clients its ‘blight’
They are just a shiny roses amid deadly thorns
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Knots to be tied very soon
Folks doth say we are alter bound
But conviction in you, cannot be found
Anxiety and ‘wife-to-be’ joy in you, cannot be sighted
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