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Igbalajobi Rasheed Olasunkanmi

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Fear
Lament's for olasunkanmi
The way I would like to die
I rather be myself
Deciever
Only for her
My heart does not hurt
Affection
Memory
The way

Fear

Knock! knock!! knock!!!
fright hit on my breath
like a prey with the prediator

shoo! shoo!! shoo!!!
even in my place of bed
seen has a egg shell
In a black man's world
I tried to be tendril like
but dwelling with cynics
can I have a grip of life?
days are dying
my palm is empty
like a castnet with no fish.

Lament's for olasunkanmi

I'm wise hoping to be wiser
I'm creative begging to be exploited
I have it all
In a land of neglect
killing minds
with a toast to corruption

I came naked
not with a naked mind
creativity sleeps in my mind
Ideology marvels in my brain
begging to be flogged and picked
down the stairs it goes, in a land of weed

I'm yearning
pleading to be heard
hostility fertile on my ground
obscurants camp in my hut
blowing the whistle of life
careless the way it sounds
to the detriment of my home.

The way I would like to die

This is the way I'd like to die If you must know I would like to go when the stars are visible and the fowls gone to roost playing a tone along the nightingale with a shaky voice

I would like to go when I'm due
and my death can't be felt
when I'm worn out
hobbling on all legs
posing like a golfer
with a sinking neck
weary in body and mind
with my sight dim to sunlight
and my Cheeks sag to the extreme
seeing my death coming
yet embracing it in a cold of happiness leaving behind dried eyes with inner tears of joy

I rather be myself

From my heart
i write words of thanks
to God for making me, me
sometimes i want to be someone else
not in human
but in style and achievement
so deep i love Wole Soyinka
so strong Homer in my memory
father of poets so say books
i rather not be either of the two
neither wanting to be you
i want to be myself
Olasunkanmi, the name should be on lips
surely time will pass
closely it draws nearear
but walls shall bear it all

Deciever

In the midst of the not-yet
I felt some heavenly cold
my head became a burden to my physique
saw her pass me by
not in her world
she must had gone with the cowries
counted my legs after her
perhaps a revelation awaits me
but I saw her no more.

Only for her

look around you
how quiet is it
look really deep
through the eye of the needle
ain't you lonely
ain't we clone
in a world of diversity
mate hunting mate
stretch, stretch, O antennae
to clutch at this hour.

My heart does not hurt

My heart mummies, not of the judas Stars are likes only by the numb birds do nest on trees not on tea-tree In twos, thought of the mind So we're in tows wipe thy thought of the mine ain't the dolphins part of the sea mine is not of the stars that goes with the open cloud neither of the outer, temporary is disappears with time folks come and go the sun rises and set the cloud seize and pour the sea never goes dry look! look!!
here I'm
the shadow that never grows old
tongue-in tongue-out
not of lies
Jaw-up, Jaw-down
words of mind
who buys my heart
Buys not some false pretence
of fudge that sour with time
He buys the spirit of the age
the unquenching fire that smoulders
and smoulders with no blaze
Buy now! not of force
he who buys no deceit
buys no truth.

Affection

The pullet has found it's roost The mighty elephant is endowed with a liar while my love roams in the wind looking for were to lay My lips give in to dryness like the plant in the harmattan How long will my heart hang in the sky Definitely o fall like a shooting star He who hears my cries Let him wipe my tears He who bears my loneliness let him make me a pillow not only to lay my manhood nor for my lips be wetted But for ripe affection be tapped by the desire of my heart.

Memory

Day by day
my heart lingers
over a deadly day
a day darker
the dead of a night
the day of september eleven
openly souls to their eleventh hour
folks hymn sorrows
tasted salt-like drops
far,far
on my tube
my skin shiver
shriek to the sight of thousand
winding-sheets
requiem! requiem!!
in the air
pity,pity on the globe
die not,O sand-coated
how callous thy be.

The way

whispering whispering along the river side murmuring murmuring down the cross-road I stretched my auditory nerve on errant my name was on lips my phalanges on the globe toesing like a huntsr but my heavenly perfume was perceived like in the midst of a tutorial I saw tired lips unheavily legs begging to be moved smiling faces received me deceit in the air despite I heardthe hiss of serpents far,far away my chest was light mind changes mind I flow in a flower of speech In the gathering of foes chanting to see my glory ebb right on cyclonics the wind storm echo loosing grip that am in a coat of life tinny with the flesh of the lamb HE in me is more than the tin dead deceiver breathing under His feet im sending wind to suite moving in trace of devolution i have THE WAY what i need as my strength .