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451 · May 2015
MAY WEATHER
Ignatius Hosiana May 2015
I held arms and took to the battlefield
I was a coward but you gave me a courageous build
How do you expect me to feel
When you say you're bowing out besides getting chilled?
You had the spirit that could kindle flame till the end
You had the will to move mountains my friend
I know I might have had it cross the line, my pawn
But how could I see a line on the sand when by the wind it was blown?
I don't know why It's a big deal for you to surrender
To me you've always been the game changer
Who'll teach us where and when to break the rules?
When you're gone who'll hold our fingers and help us with the tools?
It's a war you readily started because you knew you could face it
Watching you cry on was an encouraging feeling, we had it
We loved us, nothing else mattered when you was the king
It was one way, one people, one motto, we was one thing.
You can't step out of the ring however extreme the May weather
However chilling it may be, It's always warm with inspiration when we're together
Put on your man pants, man up and get back into the game
It's you who told us we're all in a game but not everyone's rules are the same
I ain't trying to aim fatal arrows of blame
at you
All I'm saying is we was all strong under the flagship of your name,
And captain, we miss you
451 · May 2016
At The Mountain Top
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
I will keep waiting until the fateful day finally comes
to find out if my despondent heart will still run tantrums
when you walk down the isle with a veil masking your face
I hope to see your charcoal black soul in a snow white dress
I pray to know the day you ultimately take to the alter
and the beautiful convoy you'll be taking along
I want to see and prove that you won't falter
when you see me, I want to see the fittest and the strong
the one righting my wrong, the one you won't play like a song
I want to attend your wedding to know who won the title
the one who tethered your heart with a rope tougher than sisal
the person who'll slit the throat to your precious goat
uproot the peg of your chastity and take even the nylon rope
one who'll steal your fear and get you aboard that boat
I'm waiting for he for whom you'll hopelessly fall and elope,
the Mr. Right you won't scatter from flying in fright
who'll perch the eagle of your childish pride from flight
I'm thirstily waiting for he who'll finally cage the butterfly
he to whom after saying hello you won't matter goodbye
I'm waiting to see he who reached the promised land
sadly wallowing at the mountain top whilst he takes your hand
I hunger to see the man to whom you make a wife
and for this reason I tirelessly ask God for a long life
for time is a snail, an arch nemesis of haste
but I want to see the kind who appeals to your taste
everyone has fallen for the dawn of your beauty through the years
you've broken hearts and reduced eyes to tears
So I am waiting to witness the calm of melancholic rain
the very end to the pain, the knight in shining armour
the captain of your romance train, king of the reign
I'm so waiting for the one to whom you're stringed by karma
450 · Jun 2016
Forget
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
Forget my moods and tantrums
Forget the sad songs I love
the end you thought I deserve
the days we walked in rain
the tears shed and the pain
Forget the moments I knelt
the many words I miss spelled
Forget the enemies I had
Forget the wounded I scarred
Forget the road we walked together
the hope we had in loving forever
unsure promises of happily ever after
Forget the jokes, the laughter
Forget the rays in the Sun
Forget my daughter and Son
When I die, forget even my family
that you're free to do
what you should remember
is to collect the poems I pen with shovels
the stories which should have been novels
and read so that you'll always know
it was my dream to change the world
My Own How I Want To Be Remembered
Tribute to Mohammad Ali
450 · Nov 2015
TITANIC
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2015
Life's a tyranny but humans are tuned to out live that grief
And Love is a Titanic but we can survive the icebergs and reefs
450 · Jul 2015
TRUE
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2015
If your sparkling eyes'd have my soul lit
If our hearts combined do beat as one
If while kissing our lips perfectly fit
I'll know over loneliness I've finally won

If your presence is better than solitude
If your laugh echoes spring and paradise
If "I love you" no longer feels like platitude
If mouth doesn't speak for heart but eyes

If my days turn warm even when cold
If I feel the moments shouldn't end
If mind obeys what by heart she's told
I'll believe I've finally found a perfect blend

It's not until I feel healed and unbroken
Will I know true love's finally spoken
448 · Jun 2016
I
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
I
Once thought I was through
with heartbreaks but I guess
whoever said there's always
a bigger disappointment
ahead was right.
There's no limit
to how much pain
life can bring
and just as joy
I guess I'm
just always
unlucky when
happiness is being
distributed melancholy
is always heaped on my plate
I wonder what I did wrong
to always experience this ugly fate
447 · May 2016
There's
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
nothing beautiful in
starting small
the beauty is in
remembering
how
small
you
started.
446 · Oct 2017
....
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2017
My naked eyes
hardly see beyond her luscious chest
I doubt after I venture her thighs**
we'll still keep abreast.
446 · Nov 2017
Live A Lie
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2017
You know the truth, it's painful you'd rather lie
You got the life it hurts you think you'd rather die
You've got a beautiful laugh, inside a cry
You're breathless or so it seems at every sigh
You can not fight the thoughts
the talk was cheap, the **** you bought
because you believed you'd found all you sought
it's impossible to row alone, your life's a boat
No, you can no longer live like this
betrayed by the very person you miss
and everything, the embrace, holding hands, the kiss
it breaks your heart thinking about, the bliss

You know the truth, you chose to live a lie.*
cause the pain will never die.
446 · Mar 2018
UglY
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2018
I've only known the ugly side of love
That's why I believe she has a beauty
for every star twinkles black and bright
and all darkness has got some light...
I've only known the hurting bit of passion
someday her pleasure will visit in person...
I've only known desolation,
that's my long road to my soulmate
as I have to bear living with myself
before I can think of anyone doing it...
i've only endured nights
I will find my day...
445 · Jan 2017
Now
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
Now
Am learning to crawl
since I can't move on...
444 · May 2015
A ROAD SHARED
Ignatius Hosiana May 2015
I've cried
Till my tears dried
I've tried
I've loved you
Wished you knew
Confessed to you
Rejected by you
Driven mad
I've grown sad
It's been hard
Picking every shard
Wounded
I've been bandaged
Nearly healed
But the scars re-open
I should have forgotten
Yet even my strong shield
Keeps cracking open
I've been to the track
For a fresh start
I've dared to race again
Been soaked in the storm
Trying to wash my pain
I've peeped at my tomorrow
And all I've seen is sorrow
I've tried to find another dawn
To find a good life on my own
I've tried to walk away from that past
To chew bones before my teeth rust
Placed my tongue in love and lust
Twixt those two none I could trust
I've tried to find my feet and move
To shed the heavy mud on my shoes
I've tried to pick and choose
But now I realize you are everything
Without you I'm really nothing
You are the road I want to walk
The voice I want to hear talk
You are my only choice
We were Klark and Loyce
You the reflection to the future
You were my Love tutor
You were my every dream
Pure water stream
So please come back home
Save me this doom dark heavy storm
You have been perfect at being a friend
But I don't believe it was our end
I'm to blame for wrecking our story
Ours was a road shared
I know you're scared
And I'm really sorry
Give me another chance
The final dance
442 · Mar 2017
Plaza
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2017
No dream is too big... No target is beyond reach... if you dreamed of changing the world and you find yourself too cornered, change someone's world and that will count... If you wanted to be a philanthropist, donate the little you have to whoever's in need and it will count...if you wanted to be the rose of kindness in the garden of humanity, blossom amongst your folks and it will count... If you wanted to be the greatest president, be a great boyfriend, father, uncle, aunt, mother, girlfriend and it will count... Having dreams and failing to score them should not break you, you won't be the first to never win the race you wanted, always be happy that you tried, appreciate the far that you could go...
If you cannot build the burg khalifa or the landmark plaza you always wanted, build what you can and plaza it, it sure will count for life was not supposed to be about the impression we leave in others, that was never the original plan, at some point this life is all about you and what you choose to do with it and how the end result makes you feel... As long as you feel complete, the rest doesn't really matter... No dream is too big, and not achieving a big dream you tried so hard to catch is part of the game, there is no victory without failure... Failure is success to those who put in their best and it did not just work out...
442 · Feb 2017
bLED
Ignatius Hosiana Feb 2017
The more I realized I might
never find love again the more
I grieved losing it and the
more scars reopened
into fresh wounds
and the more
I bled again...
441 · May 2016
An
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
An
Ugly reality
beautiful dreams*
that's
how
******
up
my
Life
is
441 · Oct 2017
Sore
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2017
Why's it that long after you did my heart shatter
the rains of melancholy on my soul still do patter?
Why are the scars still bearing the sore feeling
centuries after they coated in the name of healing?
439 · Mar 2018
Fly
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2018
Fly
You still think about us, I know you do... I trust you do,
but you know, however much it does hurt,
some things are better left at that.
We'll always be miles, worlds and an hour apart...
I once told you that you would outgrow us someday,
it's your right to grow, to find yourself. I loved you,
I love you and love you I always will,
but that is as much as it goes,
you found a love deeper and closer than I could ever get.
You were a bird, I nurtured you to fly, let nothing hold you back.
Not even me, ours were dreams born dead,
I would hate to think we buried them alive.
Am a poet, it's my curse to write about love and not have it,
I even found someone, as understanding as you,
little less beautiful but understanding, she has someone else as well.
So it's my destiny, not to find someone I can call home,
I am a wanderer in this life, a rudderless ship in a shoreless ocean,
I am just that thought you'll have only when you're feeling low,
at midnight when you're alone. Am just a poet,
only words can love me and not let go.
So do not hurt yourself looking back,
it's not where you're headed, go for greatness...
sadness is my home, sobs are my laugh
and lonely is my company, I already made peace with that,
that's why I have to let you fly.
439 · Apr 2016
What's
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
the past but mere ashes
of
dead
memories
we
cremated
and
carried
along from
yesterday?
438 · Nov 2016
So Long
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2016
Please just let me know
if you feel anything for me,
I've been alone for so long that
I could use even a stone for company.
437 · Mar 2016
MOON
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2016
Toy of joy
apple in April
dove of love
madness,kindness
spy in the sky
scar for star
ring of spring
Orb for the globe
bone of horn
task to dusk
light for the night
itch to the witch
tears of years
thunder of wonder
resistance in existence
rhyme & lime of time
reason for season
stature of nature
437 · Jan 2017
Stoped
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
Waiting
I've waited for
too long.
437 · Mar 2016
Let
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2016
Let
me
enjoy
my
melancholy
Joy
is
overrated
and
so
short
lived
437 · May 2019
Sad
Ignatius Hosiana May 2019
Sad
I'd rather be sad with you
than happy without you.
437 · Apr 2016
And
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
And
so
I
placed
the
wilting
flower
of
my
faith
upon
the
grave
of
the
dead
and
buried
hope
cascading
despondent
tears
for
a
never
say
never
that
never
was
436 · Dec 2016
Brewery
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
the sun a deem ray
soon an extinguished light
dark pours, wonder lurks
Just made my version from Taia Iversons
435 · Apr 2016
Can't
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
you
teach
me
how
to
love
and
be
patient
with
me
while
I
learn?
434 · Jun 2016
I Might Forget
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
I might forget your smile & laugh
I might forget the smooth & rough
times we went through
how your anger used to brew
I might forget the roads we used
the hungover after we'd boozed
I might forget the sunrises
the million sweet surprises
I might forget your beauty
even vibrations of your *****
while you gracefully walk
even how **** you talk
I might forget your soft skin
for you ain't my next of kin
I might forget those firm *******
and the flexibility of your waist
I might forget all the jokes,
bridges and stumbling blocks
might forget the road to your place
plus the length of your dress
how annoying you were at times
and that you read not my rhymes
I might forget every little thing
including how ugly you'd sing
but there's one thing I can't regret
one thing I'll remember still
the thing I can't forget's
how you made me feel.
434 · May 2015
LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Ignatius Hosiana May 2015
These eyes want to look at your beautiful body again
My strong arms, to hold you tight again
These lips are dry and frozen in untold pain
On a mouth which longs to say "I love you" again
My feet are idle and missing walking side by side with you
There's the coldest winter in my soul 'cause I miss you
My Sunshine
Even my loneliness knows I need your company again
Can't think clearly 'cause of puzzles on my mind
We didn't make the best of us with you
But I ask for another chance to see the world from your view
All I wish is for you to look through me, see my ache and be kind
Just thinking out loud :'(
434 · Jul 2016
But
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2016
But
If only you had stood by me,
patted my back & said
"There's always a next time".
I would have tried again...
If you had held me up every time
I tripped & fell and told me that
wasn't the end...
I would have stood my ground
if you had held out the rope
for me the moments I were deep
down the dark abyss of despair
I would have climbed out instantly
If you had cheered me up
too albeit I hadn't emerged the
very best in the so many a race...
I would have enrolled for another
If you had forgiven me
when I made the first of the
million grave mistakes which
ultimately cost the team
the 999,999 would have been won
If you had listened the many
times I really tried to explain
you probably would've understood
If only you had mourned with me
when I was burying my dead
I would have forgotten my loss
If you had walked with me before
I took the very first step of this
journey, the miles would have seemed less
I'd have walked farther than I did.
if you had knelt down and prayed
with me when I needed to believe
my faith wouldn't have faltered
if you had been there when I was
in need of a shoulder to lean on
I would call you my family
if you'd given me crumbs when I
were hungry, drops when I were
thirsty, clothed my ******
dressed my wounds, counselled me
lent an ear when I battled insanity
I probably couldn't have fallen off
the edge and gone totally bananas
if only you had scratched my back
when I was growing my nails
maybe I could have satisfactorily scratched your itch thenceforth
if only you had read my scripts
and poetry even if they were but
mere rumblings and cacographs
I could have written a glossary...*
If only you had even just tried to...
433 · Dec 2016
Blooming Petal
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
You are a song I can't tire of hearing
a pain that's worth bearing
you are the road that I pray may never reach the end
you are a leaf I'll never let touch the ground
a peg to which am tightly bound
and without which I get lost, and in whose presence am found
you are sunshine, you are the big blue sky
you are the one person who makes my heart sing and my soul sigh
the hello that makes me hate goodbye
you are the eyes in which I see the man I crave to be
I owe my faith and persistence to thee
for in the race of life, you're my motivation
and that's why no matter the sharpness of every other bend
on this long road, I tell myself that forever's our destination
I'll keep going for the big dreams and every medal
so as to see you smile as beautiful as a blooming petal
I count myself lucky to have you in my life
or let me just say there would be no true life without you
432 · Dec 2016
Eclipse of The Hurt
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
The Moon came between the sun and Earth
Karma came between our emotions and us
432 · May 2015
WHISKEYS AND BEERS
Ignatius Hosiana May 2015
If only these bottles were as soft as your body
If only they replied to conversation like anybody
If only your memory would sublime in the cloud of the moment
If only the much I've taken would erase the torment
If only remembering the good times made me smile
And not cry regretting why I walked an extra mile
If only I had known that the good times were just future tears
I probably would have survived these strong whiskeys and beers
431 · Feb 2016
Love
Ignatius Hosiana Feb 2016
the spark that
happens when
2 Hearts collide
431 · Mar 2016
Longevity
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2016
I
only
want
to
live
long
enough
to
prove
to
you
that
I
meant
every
word
I
said
430 · Nov 2016
True
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2016
Some friendships never die...
Some pictures never lie...
429 · May 2020
Sticks of Hope
Ignatius Hosiana May 2020
It was the sticks of hope that healed a broken heart
faith blessed the man who lost the race with a fresh start
the little bird hopped until she healed her broken wings
despair pushed caterpillars into cocoons and turned them into beautiful things
the tunnel was long and dark, but there was no light so it wasn't the end
for the lemon of reality was lemonade waiting to blend...
there was an incomparable calm after, all that ached was waiting out the storm
it was an enchanting smile at the end of the grotesque melancholic cry
an inspirational story on the next page, a hello in the heart of goodbye...
for the ceaseless wander found the nomad a home...
428 · May 2016
Stupid
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
I'm such a fool to care
about you but what's wisdom without affection and
what's beauty without
appreciation?
*I'm a fool to be fallen
but I'm happy that I am
I'm glad my heart is stolen
even if I know you'll
never appreciate
my stupidity.
I'm happy.
427 · Jan 2017
I
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
I
Loved to dare
so
I Dared to love
426 · Oct 2016
Beautiful Poet
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
she's as beautiful as her pieces
sadly she'll never know
that I hold her with high regard, no
she'll never know I yearn for her kisses
426 · May 2019
On the brink
Ignatius Hosiana May 2019
I like you on the brink of love,
am afraid I will fall.
and with a broken heart,
for you make me feel whole...
with nonchalance of a sigh,
I like you...
yet I don't even know why.
I just like you.
424 · Apr 2016
Waiting
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
I
have
learnt,
can
be
more
exhausting
than
walking
there
if
only
I
knew
where
you
are
I
would
walk
there
even
if
it
were
a
thousand
miles
I
know
I
would
dare
423 · Oct 2016
His dreams were
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2016
only possible impossibilities
to burn the sun and soak the Ocean
to sweeten Honey and value money
to freeze ice and melt water
to heat the desert a little hotter,
to empty the vacuum
his dreams were nightmares
421 · Apr 2016
Another Pitfall
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
I'm slowly losing you like grains of sand
finding their way through spaces between a ****** hand
you're going out the crevices of my broken heart
steadily seeping away, subliming in thin air like dusty dirt

without reason, departing just like you appeared
and I'm wondering if indeed it was just for a season as I'd feared
we're by and by separating, the vehicles of our fates have veered
to different directions, and the scarring sheath on my wounds have cleared

Just like a bird loses her chick whilst teaching it to fly
I'm losing you with every minute that crawls by
and it makes me want to cry,sadly the wells of my tears are dry
with every breath, oh my,I'm losing you at every sigh

Used to unexpected ends so I won't be surprised if I lose
you won't be my last hurt and neither will you be my first bruise
421 · Jun 2016
I Wonder
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
I wonder, will my mind ever
numb, will the ink ever last,
will the rivers of my imagination
ever go limpid or dry, will my
eyes ever cry, will my heartbeat
ever settle, will the sun ever be
just a sun and nothing magical
plus the moon and the stars, will
the wounds ever be mere scars...?
I wonder! Will journeys cease to
be an adventure, will I ever stop
being a philosophical preacher,
will the rains cease to soothe my
soul, will ends ever stop to hurt...?
Will smiles ever cease to be
addictive, will I ever give up
waiting for a perfect Elizabethan
romance but without tragedy or a
Danielle Steele's happy ending...?
Will the heavens ever cease to
rumble when my life storms, will
lonely hearts ever find homes...
will the broken ever stop living in
melancholy like tombs or historic
ruins modernity finds charming
will my gadgets ever rest when I
still have a million poems to write?
will I ever find peace without
a sniff at my adulterated imagination..?I wonder..!
420 · May 2015
I'M A LITTLE CURIOUS
Ignatius Hosiana May 2015
And I don't know whom to blame
The road on which we met
Or is it my eyes I should hate?
My heart that easily scrunched
Or my poor hopes you crushed?
Our hallo or our sad goodbye?
The truths I told or your lie?

You say It's all lame
Yet echoes of the past are always near
Haunting my present, creating fear
The good things gone triggering a tear
Clinging to pillows of memories dear
Dust of regret rising here after
The warm tears in my laughter

Was it a game?
That you had to come around and win
That you had to dump everything in the bin
Without considering where we'd been
That you had to wipe the memories clean
That you swerved after letting me lean?
420 · Jul 2015
LIVING AND THE DEAD
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2015
The war was over but we were still battling
Fighting the doom darkness in our Souls
Like an Ancient steam ship hurtling
Towards the Bamuda or waterfalls

We had lost the best of our youth
Warring for something that wasn't
The world brought down her wrath
For a lot had changed and hadn't

Some had lost eyes, others vision
We fought to protect the reign
Without any solid reason
And our lives washed to the drain

We fought for what we believed
And healed or not some of us lived
420 · May 2016
Nobody Can Love Me
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
I'm not capable of attracting love...
It's not lack of self esteem, I'm just too honest to lie
to myself that I'm worth loving... I'm not... no body loves a tattered rag...
None can admire to squeeze pus out of a bruised ego
or tend to wounds of a broken heart, none can understand the hurt
I know how nasty and infested my injuries are and only I will ever know my pain...
I'm splintered beyond  the point anyone can fix
and too wrecked to try sailing the romance waters again...
I might be handsome, outspoken, with a voice every lad wishes he had...
I might be doubly talented in speaking and writing words that can make the aged and
corroded bones of the dead locomote in their tombs
but that beauty can't match the ugliness of my reality...
it's easy to lie to myself that the love of my life and I will soon meet
for my fate is too bitter a truth to admit yet I refuse to spit...
If I was a lass I wouldn't date me for that's how unbearable I am...
Nobody can love me, not destiny, not love, not success, not even me.
419 · May 2015
WHO AM I?
Ignatius Hosiana May 2015
Am I just trying to hide from the whiplash of reality?
Am I a mere slow snail evading life's cruelty?
Is poetry a mere consolation for the moments I slumped?
Is it a childhood illusion I should have long dumped?
Am I dead to the reality in the twilight world "sleepy hollow? "
Is it a road to follow?
I see the heavy clouds holding promise
As I reminisce
But will such serene still reign tomorrow?
Will I really do it?
Who I'm I?
An Author, a poet?
To put it in Shakur's words
Think Reality's wrong, Dreams are For Real
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2015
One poem can change a world
It can spin the globe the other way by just a word
One poem can alter a day so bad into good
It can be the betterment to a foul mood
One poem can let you realise you are not alone
It can be power that changes your tone
One poem can heal you in a million ways
By just letting you know many others have seen days
Thanks Brandon Nagley for the poem...I know it's too long ago but better late they say than never.
419 · Sep 2015
REALITY CHECK
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2015
Everyday starts with I abandoning a beautiful dream
Waking up and getting to face the ugly realities
Every morning all light seems bright as a beam
Till my eyes ultimately embrace the eventualities
I wasn't built hard, and I'm seldom fit to be described as tough
For I prefer my dreams to facing the facts
For realities are just too rough
And strength and courage are mere acts
I wouldn't have hope in the future if wasn't for the little flicker
Of faith that has always sparked a little glow
In a heart of a climber unfit to be a hiker
Yet being forced by nature to grow
So the thing I hate about dawn is bothering my sleep
And such hate is sadly rooted so deep
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