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75 · Oct 2024
Love letters (In Camp#31)
Z Oct 2024
When I say I love you in this letter,
Know that these words won't help me show love better.
It's simple and romantic to make you smile,
As a gentleman I don't believe love letters are out of style.
The benevolence of great gestures, words don't come easily,
Though the barriers between my emotions say actions are understood speedily.
The benevolence of great gestures, words are hard to find,
Though the barriers between my sanity and insanity are lost in time.
I say leave the sanity and retain true loyalty and love,
My heart needs a jump start and that's you my love.
I seek your response so in this letter I place my piece,
The remedy of your words appears to me as you are beauty and I am the beast.
Don't let the Sun set on your sadness, love let me in,
I am a charitable and generous soul, for you I willing to sin.
You inspired me to try harder, so know my motivation is you,
You may have no clue how my adoring of you is nothing but true.
I speak my words of you in the atmosphere,
I hope the wind it to you so that you can hear.
That even when I love you in this letter,
Wait on me my love so I can show my love to you better.
Z Dec 2024
Growing up in an unstable home, I never had much,
I was taught to accept the little and be contented with the few I was given.
I am no saint and I caught myself complaining a few times,
Though I get myself back to the realization that sufferation is a part of life and along those lines bla bla bla.

I began to appreciate the little from a very tender age,
Getting familiar with hard times was once a difficult stage.
I still face difficulties, I thank God for it every time I can,
I am only human and I acknowledge that not everyday I pray.

When my tears wave to God I ask forgiveness for I am of sin, things I do wrongly,
Whether it was knowing or unknowingly.
I appreciate the little and understand the reason for my journey,
Auspicious, for success and I cannot stay down such concerns me.

The days we had no food and the weeks our cupboards went arid,
The times of no electricity and water at our disposal.
This brought me to accept life as it is.
That saying "Good people endures the hardest fights" or how ever it goes,
Allowed me to be much different from others and bring fort my brightest light.

Some people may think they know me, but truly they don't,
I programmed myself to figure people out, so being friendly is something I wont.
Vanity isn't behoove and isn't apart of my heart,
Therefore the riches of man stains me not and wont tear me apart.

Indubitably, I appreciate every little and praise God for his continuous provisions,
I pray that God shows me my friends from foes, and register the division.
So I can be at ease and have peace of mind,
At this point it's circumlocution, I know I speak too much but in spirit, happiness is all I wish my family to find.
75 · Oct 2024
Ship right? (In Camp#32)
Z Oct 2024
I am in front of a traffic light,
But all I see is blue,
No red, no yellow or green, someone tell me this isn't true.
I can't move forward,
I am stuck in this lane of 42,
All black polished lines and navy blue suits like me too.

I can't sail, I am stuck in the motion,
Unhinged and weird, I'm on a boat far in the ocean,
Some say batch and others say crew,
A few months ago until now I am still being asked "Who are you?"

Some are berthing the lines,
Others dropping the anchors below.
Popeye in real life?
Well then enjoy the Popeye show.
Blue is all I see and drafted to be
But I gained knowledge of friendship, yes it was green that set me free.
74 · Dec 2018
What happens next
Z Dec 2018
What happens next if all mankind dies.
What happens next if all the birds stopped fly.
What happens next if every beast becomes extinct.
What happens next if the ones above choose to rethink.

Where would we be now,
Would we be dead or some where else.
Would we be lost in the world or lost in ourselves.
Would we care to die or would dying care.
Would we stand strong or fall with the multitude in fear.

What would make sense for us to do,
Stay awake or fall asleep gazing at the moon.
A chance to be a fork or scoop many chances like a spoon.
Die a wise man or die a wise fool.
Because soon and very soon there will be no more men sitting on the stool.

What happens next if we lost our way,
If men and women couldn't find a place to stay.
If the birds of the sky had no place to lay,
And the beasts of the land had no where stray.
If the wise men no longer had nothing to say,
Or if the Holy one above had no other moves to play.

What happens next if we live life with no regrets,
Or walk every day with out lowering our necks.
May be if adults no longer insist on respect,
And if we as children are left in neglect.
What happens next??
Z Oct 2024
When I'm in any mood, my mother always know,
I don't know how because I never let them show.
Sometimes a false smile may appear so fearing and real,
She see even that but most times only silence she keeps.

She may not know my pains nor the balances of imperfections,
Or maybe she does and just choose not to mention.
At times she would ask, "Son are you Alright?"
Those are the times she knows I'm fighting the hardest of fights.

She is so wise and humble her fierceness amazes me,
I look at her life pains and scars knowing that is stronger than she used to be.
When she seems weak, she cries to God at night or day,
I cry deep inside because at those times I see her pain but don't have the right words to say.

Her struggle was tough and her younger life was traumatic,
I adore her because her heart is righteous and less problematic.
Forgive me Lord, lift me up wipe my tears and let me be strong in heart,
Make me as strong as her so I can help ease the pain of her heart.

my life is not my own, I am my mother's son, her first born and wish,
I want my generation after impact our lives with inherited gifts.
I am not perfect nor perfection is not what I seek,
Thanks to my mother, my first Queen and I'm her first legacy.
71 · Dec 2024
2:35
Z Dec 2024
I said I wouldn't have came back but I threw that poem away,
or did I.
Here I am staring at the screen 2:36am
My soul is longing to do more but my legs and hands are too short,
My heart goes a long distance.
My brain gives my heart no response and a lot of resistance.
Welcome it's my penance for kind gestures and lack of actions
Time to sleep,
Z Oct 2024
Poetry is life and life is art,
Creating a new piece conceives a new life's start.
Poetry saved my brother, yes it's true.
Even though he messed up, poetry pulled him through.
The art of poetry is so divine and magnificent,
Words like mountains grounded firm such omnipotence.  
The passion is in the emotions the poet sets in words,
Every synthesis of symphony, the similes, metaphors tingle every nerve.
Categorizing vocabulary, an encyclopedia your brain should be,
Hitting the bull, yes that sweet spot definitely.
Like a tree your poetry must grow so tall, so strong, so big,
The simplest of words can make your poems more than you think.
Poetry saved my brother from the hands of the stern court of disclosure,
Though he was wrong, he held his composure.
His heart was made pure and sincere through faith earnestly to God he held on to.
Tempted in the garden, yet poetry saw him through.
Some of his brothers disowned him and remembered him no more,
Thou shall not get caught, he failed to observe the 11th law.
Some who called him friend and partaker in the crime,
Like Judas they threw him to the crucifixion line.
Whispers of him going astray and gossips, that he was selfish they assured themselves that he was wrong,
The proud man stood leaving their heads bowed to the ground.
Poetry saved my brother, and on forward his head held high,
A man who can acknowledge his deeds, the most respect never past him by.
A poem to my Batch Mitchell J.
Z Dec 2024
Also in another world,
Minds of intellect precious as gold.
Molded in the hands that will not be scold,
A word to wise, secrets and truths will one day be unfold.
I have a fight to fight and a story to be told,
Bite the fruit of life, Oh Eve our death, the wisdom that sustains my soul.

Am I ready?
Lie at a price unwilling to be sold,
In dept in modern civilization far from home.
God is my solid rock and my standing stone,
Stuck on this planet called earth, a life trapping dome,
Fire in my soul sorrows extinguished with pipes of foam.

Ice cream in a cone fall slow to the floor,
When I change there would be more open doors.
Strength of core not physically but mentally and spiritually assured,
Giving balance to the purpose of dying and being on this forsaken earth anymore.

Am I ready?
Ready for what I should ask,
Finding the answers for that question will be an enervating task.
There, a fake smile worn by a human like a mask,
Your essence in the devil's glass and you blood in his legions flasks.

My body and mind must coincide with each other,
Like twins that are identical whether sister and brother.
I must stream the possibilities of my opportunities, failure I cannot cover.

I am ready no more questioning myself,
I am ready to try being the sum of better+ment.
For myself and not for those who look at me for strength,
My child to come in time to come of unknown length.

In this world,
Many minds have vast intellect like gold,
Impurities born and are unworthy to be scold.
A wise man to a fool truths were ignored but told,
This sweet fruit, Oh Eve I rather choose righteousness and sustenance for my soul.
Z Oct 2024
I can say of myself,
I have good doctrines.
I can say to myself,
I am loyal.
I can say of myself,
I have good faith.
I can say of myself,
I am good bait.
I can say of myself,
I want to catch big fish.
I can say of myself,
I wish to feed as much as I can.
I can say of myself,
I have a great heart.
I can say of myself,
I have good plans.
I can say of myself,
My mother did well raising me.
I can say of myself,
I intend to raise my offspring as did she.
I can say of myself,
I am not certain of life.
Though I can say of myself,
That I'm willing to try.
Z Dec 2024
Forgive me, a fool I am not to hold her to her words of loyalty,
Yet I expect her to hold fast to mine, that's a messed up morality.
It's not like I'm doubting her words because of its repetition and false meanings of past or meaningful but less action that last,
I assumingly find it hard to trust anyone fully that likely.

Yet to her I gave my trust willingly and humbly,
Occasions on such that she shows her loyalty.
She speaks of a firm foundation and pushes a steady mind,
Only God knows how many times I think of her with this lost soul of mine trapped in time.

Nicola, the name equaled to my first love and my third,
My mother of course and my girlfriend shares the same name.
I look at them and they have similar acumen and major things the same.

Mrs. Samuel, maybe, maybe not some day to be,
My wife or not probably as long as she stay with me.
I'm not praying she stays mine forever, but if she does would forever be mine?
I am trying to mold myself to be a better me than I was before,
The apropos way to ensure I'm worthy just for future time.

Still when I think of Angel I see "Her" smile,
When I sit and write tears for that "Her" flows from my eyes,
Because my soul misses "Her" but she is what I can't have,
It pushed Angel further away, but in great strength I alone can over come and understand.
Z Oct 2024
Would she?
I am here, in fear, away from her,
Knowing what's out there and what evil hands lure.
Is she for me? If she is she will stay,
Games of disloyalty and pain, my heart cannot play.

Would she still?
I don't know, maybe she will.
Maybe she cries at night thinking of me still,
Maybe she's out having fun without me in thought,
Maybe the fight for her wasn't worth being fought.

Would she still be?
Be by my side,
Or stand behind my back as false love with pride,
Would she still be sitting looking at old pictures of her and I,
Or is she allowing another man to embrace her smile.

Would she still be mine?
After all this time,
Like the infinity of an endless line.
Would she still be mine or will I have to find?
Another girl to make her mine,
Maybe I do and maybe it's true,... or not.
She could be waiting on me in silence weeping it through.
Z Oct 2024
People say practice makes perfect, but perfect is an imagination,
They practice with "PERFECTION" in mind so they fail unnecessarily all the time.
Level up yourselves, forward you ascend up the path you take,
Once you commit yourselves, you have success to make.

Practice makes permanent, be honest to your struggle and stay confident,
Do all you do with passion and an attitude to improve.
A wise man said "Practice makes permanent, especially in your prime".
Practice, Practice, Practice until you make it a habit in future time.

When you practice and you practice some more,
You will increase your knowledge that I can assure.
Characteristics will be improved and others you will inspire,
Practice makes only permanent and that is all great things require.
Z Oct 2024
Oh I am a humble ******,
My guidance cometh from the Lord and my peace, pushing from the sea front.
To the sea front I look for strength,
To the sea front I lean for a calm spirit,
To mother seas who sends blessings for me.

Look upon this ******,
Know that his head is guarded by integrity.
Discipline and professionalism are steeping stones I must take,
Accountability and respect are pillars that should not break.
My strength of character and ethics are implanted in my soul,
The values embedded to my core and are on my skin like moles.

My peace pushes from the sea front,
Oh I am a humble ******.
To the sea front I salute proud,
To the sea front I shout loud,
To mother sea, thank you for sending blessings for me.
60 · Oct 2024
Poem Book (#20 In Camp)
Z Oct 2024
The book of my poems,
Means so much to me.
Come, read oh distant traveler,
May you feel the words I silently speak,
In times of distress my reflection of frustration enters this book freely,
I rather write away my realization than sink and sulk in sorrows like seas.

Read and understand my little wisdom,
I believe God granted it to me.
Come in the wall of my little kingdom,
I assure you love and loyalty.
I am no scholar nor the wisest of men,
Yet my heart cries and my tears the ink to my pen.

Forgive me distant traveler,
Only words i have for thee.
No silver nor gold nor vanity resides inside of me.
A cancer who slowly kills the body and makes it no more to be,
Like a man with no foundation and ambition his eyes can allow him to see.
Z Oct 2024
With no pain there's no gain,
No blame game but the blame is stained.
Nutrition to the brain adds the flame to the insane,
Blood stains on my shirt and a dead body in the drain.

The police came,
Body's cold and stiff, head strain.
Brain matter on the side of the walls well laid,
No evidence to show and no running blood in his veins.
The soul reaper is gathering souls again.

Bed rest, vegetable life, he's a cane,
Bullets speeding, swift movements like trains.
Shot in the leg and low he's lame,
Laying in his blood next to the empty shell grains.

Another child dies again, another youth dies in vain,
They stress on the violence yet they make crime their main campaign.
gathering of sorrows, here comes the reaper once again,
To deliver their souls after their bodies have been slain.
58 · Oct 2024
Baptism (In Camp#30)
Z Oct 2024
Water touch my soul,
Rest on the mold of my head and make me whole.
Baptize me in your rivers of prosperity and love,
Allow my spirit to ascend like a dove.
Flow down my skin, oh how wonderful you bless,
I look above and permit you water to run down my chest.
Bless me now and give me all you can give,
Hug my heart and grant me reason to live.

A second chance without sin I plea,
Another life oh water you can give to me.
Pick me up and swallow me whole leave none behind,
Now I can see, Holy water drops, for I was blind.
I studied the laws or righteousness that I say,
Days I commune with thee as much as I can pray.
I ask again humbly, water touch my soul,
You guide the ori of my head and have made me whole.
Z Oct 2024
Last time her eyes saw light, darkness was the first sight,
Died in her sleep and never in her life she did right.
Hearts she killed, she stole, she kidnapped and minds she *****,
That night she died, hell fire she couldn't escape.

There's space in Hell, vacancy in Hell,
One is coming, two is coming so ring the bell.
Mammon is feasting on the souls new and fresh,
And share amongst his legions, fresh souls are the best.

So say live life right and Heaven is your reward,
Follow his commandments, and fear only God.
Keep your whites clean, don't place spoils on your garments,
There's vacancy in Hell and spoils are new meat to their Lord.
52 · May 2022
Longevity
Z May 2022
A plan was set in place,
Not sure if it'll work but it's a leap of faith.
God will lends a hand like he always do,
When I can't carry on anymore, HE helps me through.

I have few regrets, I mean who doesn't,
I need to climb I've learnt from failed attempts.
I hope this young lady I'm with reaches her goals,
I don't think I have it in me to let this one go.

My future is what I was working towards,
Whatever comes with it I pray it's good,
It has been so hard to continue progressing forward.
I keep fighting day by day as I should,
God alone knows if I had the power to remove myself from existence I would.

My plan has taken its course,
I will try my best through God's merciful grace.
This child that will add struggle yet a greater purpose to ,my life,
Lord in you I trust but I pray that in her decisions she meditated day and night.
0 · 1d
Tiny one
Z 1d
As spontaneous the occurrence,
time late of such assurance,
as sudden the gift,
my heart had a early shift.

Confused, unprepared and overwhelmed,
from a haphazard spiral of stems,
the minions in my mind started a frenzy,
the thoughts I vanished in suspend me.

Yet a blessing and a grace from God,
medics rush my heart to the spiritual ward,
a new path that would test me immensely,
as I began to grip my chest tensely.

Tiny one, I am not ready,
steady the waters Lord my shoulders are heavy,
but I'll be better than my birth givers,
I beg let me be there till the end and from the day she delivers.

Preparations are made and the time is soon,
little by little the sugar grains fall from the teaspoon,
a new step in life a new brew to make,
I wonder which personality most she'll take.

My little unborn, my mini princess,
blessed will be the day you lay upon my chest,
how anxious we are to see you,
how happy the tears would be dancing down my cheeks too.

Kisses and cuddles, love and care,
I make no promises but I'll be there,
I say to myself what a heavenly masterpiece,
and on that day only at that time my worries will cease.
To my beloved daughter due to enter this world 23 July 2025, before or after.

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