Mfonobong Ituen Poems

TO MY MOON MASTER "MM"

My heart knows no sleeps
Ever awakes to bask
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I can't marry a poet
One who listens with heart
Silence his loudest echoes
Turning me to deaf and dumb
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Not where we used to be
Things ain't the same again
This we never bargain
Just yesterday I moved freely
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So funny a world we are
Everything so fake just about to break
Ain't there all illusion?
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Let me not into shame
For in you I thrust out my love
Do you care to see me cry?
What felony have I committed?
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This could be us
Before leaving to study
The algebra 'X'
Becoming my Ex
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THE MAN WHO DIED

Once upon a man
For love's sake
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Treading the sands of time
Have been ridiculed
Have been talked out of my pride
Have been likened to some ugly specie
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Outta here we go again
The new lyrics of incantation, we enroll
Gently, the steps we make at the drums beat
Now terrorist to the ghost night
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Even here we get turn
A natural appraisal of gift
Take it in as I get pin
Keep it wet let the bet began
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