Ceejon Ezinwoke Poems

'Hush', I said
And the crickets ceased to whistle
This night can't be dark, it should't
I will tell the moon and her shiny friends,
To keep vigil and watch you darling friend
I will go fetch you some cool sea breeze,
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On whose wings the winds were made
The feathered one of the esteemed sky
Through frosts and coasts you did invade
You alone can the vast sky ply
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She was perfect in my eyes
I didn't have cataract at all
It was love that I felt for her
With this throbbing heart of mine
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Painstakingly,
In semi-mindless pretence
I am tossing you away
You, beautiful beloved baby
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The signs so illustrious
As N diligently did his do
Standing up and falling again
Looking past mocking fingers
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A lone foot beneath a joyful soul
Like a boy-master of a macho man
‘Tim tim tim' the thumping goes
Mercilessly on an arid soil
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Her life used to be
The sweetest story she'd ever heard
A sweetheart and a babe
A lover, to an illegal distiller
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Down but not out
I saw their taunting laughter
As it licked my very wounds
And the tears I saw on them,
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Farewell to these old places
That let me step on them
Your dusts will stick on me
On the soles of my restless feet
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I was once a poet
Now all that remained
Are the ashes of time past
When words were eaten
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