Olumide Omoyele Poems

I am a God
Ordained at the
earliest point in time
The blood of ancient dynasties
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[For Ye 'Beji]


Like the fabled
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Brother, Dear Brother,
Incredible violence.
Reign of fire.
Starvation.
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Three children play at dawn
budding engineers of sandcastles
a large roar, deafening...
Best-laid plans and aspirations
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Faster and faster, the thrusts get
The gyrations, poetic
Like a solemn, agreeable battle
Between Gods, those giants
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elevated pretences
co-ordinated, powerful and
seemingly all-encompassing
believable even... well, almost
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The innocent simplicity
with which a child plays,
falls and rises again and again,
and yet again;
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Like a shot
a bolt from the blue
fun and games evaporate
disillusionment and anger beckons
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Twin windows, beautiful
Gateways to a precious soul
Simple yet capable of
Incredible, varied emotions
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The tenderness.
The complex simplicity.
The calm.
The silence.
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