Emmanuel Ojex Poems

HELLO

Hi, it's your friend
Yeah, your longtime friend
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In a nation filled with political miscreants and tyrants,
Led by unworthy leaders,
All moving towards the path of the gutter,
Despite her uncommon number of talented hustlers.
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THE STORY IN MY HEAD (The Man Sitting In Your Front)

He's not a human being - No, he is less of that
He might've been the one through whose sperm I permeated into my mother's vagina
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We are children of beggars
we have no choice but to automatically harness our little talent
or what we know it as
knowing how to beg and prolly wash cars
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It'll not be far
till my heart turns stiff
It's not going to last forever
I'm well aware of this
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Tell it to the mountains
tell it out loud that the world might hear
Wax up the steep and rugged hills, journey the valleys and fountains
tell them! oh tell them now that they are near
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it's not that the eyes can't see at times
it's just the brain that can't read -
the pain, dip as cells in our body; smeared on smiles
it's just that our brains can't read
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Where I ask, do they go?

do they wash down life upon the River Nile?
or hover around the sky hoping; someone someday, shall find?
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We war different battles
We joy different wins
My love...
what you see as blue is black to me
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Dear Kendra
Do you still say 'I am fine' when you are
.... slowly losing yourself to the noise only you can hear?
...echoes that keep you up at night
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