Tony Adah Poems

She was promised a rose
Carefully sequestered in a heart
Beautiful and firm whorls
The rose though with a thorn never
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Freedom beckons from a far harbour
Liberty holds her torch
And the world black and white
Blue and green converge
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There's no place like a grave
A home you don't struggle to build
Away from the hustling bustling of the world
Naked you came, naked you have gone
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Injuries to my wealth are beginning
To gather scars
Flies have lost hope in their source of food
And they are thinning out in droves
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I am going home
To where I do not know
They say there is everything and bliss there
That place hmmm that place!
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Man loves to hate man
That is why he is the master of all
Lesser men are his okro
He plants and it grows taller than him
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Fear grips the world by the jugular
And the painful shadow if war
Looms above the earth
Religion the pacifier
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The sun hung up high in the sky
And the earth was hot and humid
A hell kite dropped to scoop a chick
In its mortal claws
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In bed asleep I often think
That I am sitting on my writing desk
A haze of ideas smothering
And pressing me down
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I have no wings to fly
I have no legs to walk
I have no friend to hold
I am alone
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