The Three Trees is a poetic words about the lifestyle of an adolescent in core and rural part of Africa... who finds his dream, and took a decision of living it no matter what...

1. POetRY…

2. CONTENTS
ALPHABETICAL LOVE
FRIENDS
BROKEN HEART
COME AGAIN
AIM HIGH
SLAVE
DOWNPOUR
FAITH
FEELINGS
FORGIVE ME
NAIJA
MOTHER
PUSH
MARRIED
THOUGHT IN THE DARK
ONE THING
TRUTH
THE THREE TREES

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This piece is as a result of a heart felt seeds that, either I like it or not, it must grow since it
was daily nurtured and watered by the motherly lustre in me. To God the almighty, my
faithful acknowledgement goes for bestowing me with this gift of effortlessly coming up with
anything without even deep thinking.
Dedicated to my mother, Mrs. AJALA, Qudrah Arinola whose love is my prime mover, and
to my father and doppelgänger, for his sacrifices, trust and belief, I can’t thank you enough,
I just besiege the almighty to make all your seeds a source of myriad happiness and success.
Also, to my families and friends, and my life acronym “SRFRFMFA”… I hope you decipher
this on time.
Finally, to my longtime friend, lover and wife, Aisha, and my beautiful angel and mother,
AJALA, Qudrah Arinola --- Quidy, thanks for your patience and understanding…
AJALA, Sodiq Babalola

4. ALPHABETICAL LOVE
Itdoesn’t cost anything
At the beginning of an end or the end of a beginning
Better life comes with a better half
Can’t I just love and save my world
Don’t want to live life on books and people’s look about it
Enlighten lies in the reason to view a season without treason
Failure starts when one don’t want to make mistake and learn from it
Gift of life came from love, imagine one in a thousand million cells
It doesn’t cost anything
Housed in a womb, safe and gently guided with love
Incredible is the worth of world when love is all
Just pause and take a cool look at life when the dead lost pulse
Kindly gesture your love to all because they live only once, and there is no second chance for
every first impression
Masterpiece is this for those who see beyond seas when they sit
Never loves for materials, only you understand your wants, just make sure they aren’t for lust
Only love takes you there when you are nowhere, it brings you from rear to rare
It doesn’t cost anything
Practice it when you’ve lost it, and it will come back, don’t just stay blank in your love bank
Question when you feel not right about things, it opens new perspective

5. Remember the love of God on us; realize our love is for us, good for us, all for us, and even
more for us
Save your words when upset, reset and preset before you out-let them
Tame the beast in you. Right play the game, manage your fame, safeguard your name, change
yourself, mild the wild
Uphold the truth about love, not sex like you were told, sex could ruin you, Love Won’t
Voice the facts about life, never fold your arms in truth fight, refuse being bought, don’t be a
slave
Walk through life in happiness, even if glad tidings come late, have faith and patience, they
are the highest, don’t cheat in business, the pain is always clueless
It doesn’t cost anything
Xoxo…Kisses and hugs, give only to those you truly love
You know yourself better, God knows you best
Zip up, Man up, Make up, Brace up, Wake up, Move up, Love up. Do the positive.
It doesn’t cost anything

6. FRIENDS
GiftsI have at my end
Lots of these I can give and send
To every souls that I have met
That stand in all moments, those I call all friends
As norm I forget my whole thoughts
That for I have friends, I shouldn’t sloth
When my flesh and soul fought
Over who and whom should not be bought
Friends I place high esteem
Not because of what they give
But my believe to every degree
They bring bandage for heart wounds
And remove bondage for freedom
I know the end of friend is end
Like the three letters that ends
Some their ways they can’t mend

7. And from you they expect fend
At some life stage or periods in life race
One could seemingly need steroids
This feeling of life as devoid
Comes when a friend fills not the void
Some challenges could form a loop
As bad as having no food and living in woods
As worst as having no cloth for one’s nude
Outrunning one’s mood and make one low stoop
Who is?
That friend with a good heart
Whose end always means a start?
With a nice mind, that can stand and pay the price, and not even mind
With the highest tolerance
Who will help create all clearance?
Clear your pain and sorrow
Make you gain and glow

8. Close his eyes to your misdeeds and shortcomings
And will open his hands and eyes
When he sees you coming in tears
Who wants you to not suffer
All your problems, solutions he would proffer
That friend who will at all times, offer a hand when you fall
On that day, when you are task
When you most need, give a nod to all you ask
That friend who will always treat you out to the bay,
Guide you in the right way, and won’t let you astray
That friend that will never betray
Who will never spill your bin, or place your talk on the tray
As long as he sees the truth in your ignorance and your plea
That friend that just need you to make a step
And he will make steps than you ever could imagine, and say, be happy
That friend that just need you to ask, and will provide
Who will always give, expecting nothing from your side
Only to appreciate and celebrate

9. That friend who will make you live in wealth, health and all good things of life till
death
Will not leave you, as long as you believe
Whose trust never rust, whose sharp love never blunt
Who will never deceive, whose presence is a relief
Who exactly is?
Is that friend whose actions, inactions are perfections
Whose dimensions are without regressions and digressions?
Whose intention correlates to that of his friends?
HE is indeed the best of friends
HE will indeed overlook your misdeeds, attend to your deeds and perfect all your
deeds
HE is indeed, the LIGHT.

10. BROKEN HEART
Pleasedon’t see this as being rude
I just want to be cool, you may call me fool
For playing by the rules, but with a heart full of joy
I prepare this piece for you
All I saw was abstract, innate qualities for the outside
The reflection of your inner self from the outside
Being calm, cool and responsible was my way
I couldn’t bring forth what I’m not up to
All I did to win your heart at that glimpse was what I could
That jiffy was nothing close to easy as many thought
Being gentle, subtle and ambitious was my way
I couldn’t fake or bake cake for whom unfit
You were not the perfect woman for me
I knew well before I came to you
Making you the imperfect perfect was what I crave
That was and will till my grave

11. Just one act that changes my heart to ice and melts it
Was what I appreciate and held unto, and will continue holding until I see it no more
That deed that dims you fit to be my wife
Is what I believe could lit my life
They said me lucky to get your heart-key
But you suddenly changed the lock
They talked, several mocked
But all did not give me a mind block
I thought both of us could stand in front of the mirror
And make our total appearance four together
May be we would live together four- ever
But every memory drew hope away
But where was your patience
So you showed those ones in pretense
Where was your tolerance?
I was wrong I thought you had
But what exactly did you want

12. Is it the family name or fame?
This made you throw me in the abyss of shame
What’s your gain for putting on me the blame?
But why did you act like that
You are good but your over statement was cruel
The words were unadulterated crude
Weighty and you left, made me agree with no reason
Now when will you let out the reason?
Why you acted that way
Friends charged me with treason
They thought I could have done the same
I had learnt my lesson
Your leaving was a blessing
I thought you were the best I could get
Unknown to me that better than the best I will soon meet

13. COME AGAIN
Comeagain and I’ll let you stay
Since you went away, I had been in pain
Come again and I’ll let you stay
Since you went away, I had been astray, never gain
I take coke
I smoke dope
I got a black lip
And a crack voice
I reminisce
Coming home late
And you waiting, still awake
I slept like a fool
After consuming all your food
You still rose to cook
I got mad and beat you up
You still wake up in the mid to care for me
U geared me up to do good

14. Just as my dad does
Come again and I’ll let you stay
Since you went away, I had been in pain
Come again and I’ll let you stay
Since you went away, I had been astray, never gain
A lot other sins
I drank gin
My eyes dim as it blinks
I couldn’t even see or think about wining
I slept in my vomit
You cleaned me up and gave me mint
I let you down on the street
You stood by me when in need
I stole from the old and cheat the young
I beat them all and treat them bad
World on my feet, I thought but I was wrong
You sang me songs so I could learn
But all my acts lessen the lessons

15. I eventually stood losing your blessings
Come again and I’ll let you stay
Since you went away, I had been in pain
Come again and I’ll let you stay
Since you went away, I had been astray, never gain
Veins stood on my fore head
Blood dried in my left leg
My eyes, flood of blood
Hearts full and eyes red
I slept with all the ladies
They stupid, said yes to all my mess
I believed it all ends here
You told me words but I didn’t adhere
You gave me signs but they seem not clear
But God’s wrath, I ain’t prepared
Now I know it all starts here
Come again, let’s start again
Come again, come make me gain

16. Come again, come ease my pain
Come again, come save my slain
Come again, come show the main

17. AIM HIGH
Landscapeescaped not its fate
It dream as seen scene was made
Lava accepted not the barricade no
That’s why we call it volcano
Your heart’s hard as stone
Boil it soft as foam
Your mind’s lost as hope
Make it come back home
You don’t know where you are
You can’t say where it is
You can’t say here it is
Find a way, and leave with ease
Through thick and thin, calm down
And view all things, one by one
Your soul may be demanded
Show it you’re not stranded

18. Sitted with your legs crossed
Cos your feet are so cold
You seem fine but your arms folded
Get out of the igloo
You might be searching for today
And have been searching since yesterday
But eventually found today
Watch and pray that tomorrow brings no sorrow
Will your dreams come to past?
That’s the question you want to ask
Aim it high from your heart
Pray, work and walk into limelight
Angels live high up the sky
Stretch your hands and rise up the sky
Let the cloud stain your hands
Shout out for joy and shout it out
Your years of multiples is this
Break all bondage like this

19. Face the multitudes like this
Dare the devil like this
Do not sleep, you’ve got to dream this clear
Making it right is the scheme this year
Make a team and be prepared
Watch them, trophies and awards, they are near
They say life is not worth living
Ask who wants fast leaving
Words of God, believe in
Blessings, you will be receiving
Taste this, and you won’t let it waste.

20. SLAVE
Morningcame as sunny
And the sun knocking
Through my small opening
It came, tiny shining
An unusual breeze
Accompanied by rain drizzle
Took the sheet off me
My born way, left me
Glued to my bed
Stayed blue with pains and aches
Resuming back to slavery
The place of hate
Work and work, all for long
Sweat around my head and leg
Wash all the clothes and gloves
Make the dishes and tidy the kitchen

21. No school, no matriculation
More work, more maltreat
More talk, walk, hawk and chores
My time and life…wasting
The slave of rage
Age after age
Wasting through the page
Of life and image, without tutelage
Masters never listens
He wants me listening
He hardly visits the kitchen
All he knew was to eat chicken
Always says why to my acts
Always wants rough in my path
Never wants me to die
But wants my heart to
Never wants me for good

22. Only for his good
Cooking and serving his food
Treating me like a fool
Masters never ready to change
The post they enjoy and stay
I’m walking my life for you
I couldn’t read in school
I cease being a slave
No matter what you pay
No matter what they say
A job that can’t give me room to develop myself is slavery
A job that does not want me to study more is slavery
I won’t leave my life to put money in another man’s pocket
I won’t risk my future just to put another man’s picture in ovation magazine
All because he pays me token
All because he says he’ll give me a raise
His bank account skyrocket and mine sail
His family grows and mine struggling
I can’t stand it

23. Not now, not anymore,
I CEASE BEING A SLAVE

24. DOWNPOUR
Thecunning weather stood staring at me
Pretending so as to deceive me
It took several styles and shapes to frame me
But I won’t let it actions lure me
I already had vivid insight
Though I was timid inside
I tried to form a lipid kind indite
But my decision was stupid in sight
I failed to pick the necessary item
Umbrella, rain boot and all of them
I stood to what the deceit is for
I guessed it was for the rain before
But I wasn’t sure
So I was lured
And the cunning came so pure
So I left for the mall

25. My steps was not beyond three
Very unusual for every April
I had not even walked close to the bakery
When the rain caught me fool, I was wet a full
The weather ultimately sees my down fall
I couldn’t turn and back the mall
So cold and in it, children playing football
I hope they get their mama call
Alas, the weather was mourning
And I didn’t know that morning
That it will soon cry
Since it stayed calm, like a new bride
So the same weather could still smile
And the sun will shine
So life is all about cry and smile
Hunger, pain to happiness in wine and dine
So there is a start at the end

26. Beginning when all seems to end
Giving a chance to make amend
And a room for total blend
So the little dark ant
Beneath the rock in a black night
Could one day see the light?
So as the funnel takes much and gives less
Light could show at the tunnel end

27. FAITH
Sandupon sand
Cross to the other side
Could not jump or fly
But must go without being shy
Two steps on
Became steps in
Could not go back
But from seem dark
Front feet to knee
Knee to tight
Tight to waist
And waist up chest
Sinking and shivering
Will get there
From no where
But now here

28. Must get there
Still in the mud
Trust in God
Gourd in hand
Love in mind
Evidence of unseen realities
Forgone frivolities
Waved anomalies
Seen of the unseen
Substance of hope
God will make you cope
Your shine will grow
You shall glow
Imagined reality
Think it, and it’s yours
Envisage it, it’s done
Say yes, and it is on

29. Fictional truth
See it as big
View it unreal
It can be real
If you have faith
Blood in your veins
Look beyond the veil
If you want yours
Not to be vain
Then have faith
Trust and complete confidence
Evidence of virtual existence
Receipt of suppose occurrence
This makes you whole.

30. FEELINGS
Blindeyes hears vision
Deaf ears see thoughts
Closed eyes see imagination
Deaf ears hears whisper
As natural as the angel
Damsel that doesn’t makeup
More beautiful when she just woke up
And she’s all her, never fake up
Cool as the gentle breeze
Her hair drops like the drizzle
And her face, shines like a twinkled star
With nose sitted perfectly on a supple lips
Something I don’t know drew me to her
Nothing struck me to the pane so as to spy her
Everything made me stood in pretense so as to see her
One thing made me want to be with her

31. Words of love in her voice, I see
Treasures in her latent love, I perceive
Pleasures in her love, I want to receive
The measure of her love brings me relief
I hardly could live a seconds without her
I barely could stand a chance of losing her
She is like water, which feeds the seeds of my flower soul
Like the sun, that lights and shines the world of mine
She is like a shell to the me snail
Guarding me so I will not stain
Guiding me so that enemies won’t nail
Propelling me like the ship sail
Like the full moon, bringing complete light in total darkness, turning it to noon
Challenges of life give several reasons for death, but she gives just one for life
You are my way of life, my culture
So, you away from me is a torture
With this golden ink, I make an inscription

32. Of what my heart thinks in connection with yours
That as my eyes blinks in reflex, my heart skips in reflex, and my soul swells in reflex
For love indeed is reflex
This feelings I know is deep
Dipped and drown in the ocean of love
All seen is dim, with an attachment in dreams
As I light-beam at the sight of you
I see your face when you are away, each time I close my eyes
And my sleep went away
When you are with me, I can’t close my eyes
I would want to stare throughout the night, from light out to light on
I see all in emptiness and little in the fullness of my elated spirit
The more I seek, lesser is what I find, and this brings thrill
Though, I see the picture of the past in age
The reasons for this I can’t envisage
I may go far and wide in my voyage
With your smile on my mind, my wild side tame

33. Your mild spirit makes it easiest
To carry you around in that special place, my heart
Your kiss on my lips, in a glimpse
Keeps my mouth ajar
Your steps, up down through your hips
Ease me from afar
I might not know the properties of a proper tea
Or what love is, but I sure know what love isn’t
And I know what full in beautiful
Religion, Character and Beauty in full

34. FORGIVE ME
Yesterday, I took a taxi at a stop in GRA
I saw this sunshine as I made my hay
I like her face and curly hair
Her skin is clean and simply fair
I couldn’t help but pay her fare
Voice of love from her supple lips
Words of joy in her peaceful speech
Her acts alone, I made a wish
At her stop, she alighted, on a slight mode
Then I realized she has just a leg and the other, a crutch
I see her walk down the aisle in my heart
Tears of love, dropped down my eyes
I instigated the first date
So as to make her my soul mate
I even brought her wine
With my family so we could dine
I have two legs and I still whine
God forgive me for I do whine

35. I had to buy some fruit juice
This lad is slightly tall and fine
His dad must be a macho man
His afro cut, dark and shine
His up were firm all to the ground
For the juice, I paid more than a pound
Swift in the way he does his things
Lift, arrange and keep his things
He was blind but sees in his mind
The truth he found
And he also feels it sound
I can see with my two eyes
I have these eyes and I still whine
God forgive me for I do whine
Afternoon will soon come
For morning has just died
Evening will still cry, and
Even try not to die, but will eventually die
They all cry, try but still die
That’s her view about life

36. She’s the mother of tie and dye
Her styles are fine from far and fast on sale track
Her attires are always admired and desired
She’s been the best for ages
She’s risen different stages with multiple wages
She’s already at her peak but she really can’t speak
She opens her mouth but her voice’s a bleak
Her smiles reveal her open teeth
The smile could take a man miles high
I have mouth and I can speak
I have this and I still whine
God forgive me for I do whine
Taqua bay makes my day
So I never would say nay
To the cool evening breeze
With my Viju almost freeze
And blue toothed Fuji music
Tipping feet and head nodding
I could hear the lyrical flows
Feeling the rhythm and rhymes as it glows

37. Could even move to the groove
Yet hear the wind when it blows
Moving here and there
I have two ears and I can hear
I have these hears and I still whine
God forgive me for I do whine
Give a hand no matter what
Help the poor, and do your part
Have a hand in people’s good
Be a man that helps a fellow man
Not only women, help human
Giving a hand is where true love lies
Helping people is the golden rule of life
Stay alive, be Happy and never whine.

38. NAIJA
Demdey fear the guy like say na God
When him dey come, people go dey run
I dey look maybe e carry fire for head
But dem talk say he get craze for head
Me just pack go that area
I see am when I go buy aerial
Mallam say the guy strong, e even show us where he dey live
E say he stubborn like bone wey dog vex leave
Dem say no be the guy fault
Thief thief him papa motor when the motor get fault
Dem say their house sef burn
When him mama born their last- born
Dem say d guy na graduate
Say him star blow kom radiate
Say na one of d best for him set
E dey even dey win money for mathematics bet

39. But since e graduate, e never get job
E no get money like most of him mate
Those one no even go school reach am
Dem dey curse am fool becos dem get money pass am
He begin dey smuggle goods from Cotonou
Maybe him clothes go from dirty to new
Begin dey drive car wey dey touch ground when goods dey inside
Cars wey dey get big yanch when you look from outside
Na only God never kill am
Dem say Customs almost kill am
Dem say dem catch am, beat am
But na him papa school mate help am
Say the Custom Oga see him name
Say e ask them who get the name
So them call the name, when e answer
The Oga say na him old friend name, naso the man free am becos of the name

40. Say d man say if dem catch am again
Say him go make am feel double pain
As per sharp guy wey get brain
Na so the guy leave follow train
From Lagos to Kano
From Kano, e follow beans enter Port Harcourt
From Port Harcourt, find e way enter Bayelsa
Sharply go start bunkering for Bayelsa
Na then I know say pirates self dey Naija
Dem go wele Bunkers for water carry crude ja
God really need this guy life
Dem say pirate sef for don take him life
E fear go join kidnappers dem
Those ones no even send
Dem dey kidnap those with money sacks
Collect money as ransom, carry am do faaji go London
Dem say if you ask am, e go say na their right

41. But me I no remember when I say na their left
Dem say government do dem bad
Say na dem dey suffer wetin we dey enjoy
Say na their side the crude oil dey
Say spillage don spoil all their things
Say their farmland don turn crude land
Say their fertile land no fertile again
Say dem no fit farm again
Say their stream don turn crude stream
Say all their fishes do die finish
Say them no fit fish again
Say dem no even get basic amenities
Say light, road and even water na calamities
I feel for dem I no go lie
Though, na bush me sef dey stay
But small small amenities dey
We no dey stand for tap taiy
We get small light, dey hear wetin radio say

42. But we don forget road taiy taiy
I see say the guy eyes red
Dem say e be bull wey red
Say e no dey drink or smoke
Say na only red bull and coke he dey take
Dem say him papa sef dey complain when e dey take gin
Becos na him be the first pikin
Say e dey ask to born na sin
D man sef don tire
She na like this we go dey live
No food, no money, no job for youth
And we dey say we get government
I don dey vex from this moment
As I dey drink drink
E be like say make I talk talk
But I no wan name names
And I no wan swear swear

43. Dem say patience na d answer
But na when we wan wait reach
Some say revolution na d solution
But no be all of us wan die
Dem this people dey do like devil
Baba God con help us
Becos na only you fit help us
Before kasala pass this level.

44. MOTHER
Stumbledin the dark
Humbled at the door
Fumbled with my keys
Rumbled and cold
Eager to go in
Keys still in
It looks right
But the key budges not
In the morning
A sunny one
I woke, but my door, with no one
But my seeds, I looked from my throne
Began a stroll was my eyes
Along a path as it cries
Without rigmarole, it rolled
Towards a toll, and then it watched

45. The green spirit of trees
As it leaps
The blue dream of the sky, still asleep
And birds in it flew as the wind blew
The countless ages of waves
As it breaks in tides and ebbs
The dim twilight
As fountain sings to it, and then I knew
As baby crawls
Toddler walks
Child runs
She watched
Before sleep, her lullaby
When my deep sleep sinks
Just awake,
She still stood by
My care, never smeared

46. My friend, not fiend
My brain, not derailed
My life, but not my wife
When hungry
My food
Still angry
She stood
After her cane
Still in pain
She showed the main
And made me gain
In the labyrinth
My guide
To the hyacinth
My guard
While I was away
She went her away

47. Dreamt her in May
She stood without say
Where my life lies
Where my soul lies
My heart and more
All it implies
Forever on my mind, is her motherly luster in me, she all in me, my mother
My all.

48. PUSH
Thepredator that made all our prayers prey is sin
It at all times chock our prayer throat and makes us puke
Life to you may be a rose bed, but remember it is thorns spread
So, whatever happens, just PUSH
Events may come, take all your words away and you don’t know what to say
It may take water from your eye-well, and make you see one luster like many glisters
You thought about it and feel like living this words for some words else, don’t yet
Try this few lines and get a relieved sigh
So, as things take shape, still PUSH
Incidents could come and make your life a parable, riddle or quiz
You seem lost in the wilderness and every question to you takes the nod answer
As responsible as you are, you action are like a man wearing skirt
Obstacles occur as you rode through path of life
Deep in your heart, don’t tear yourself apart with thoughts, just PUSH
Your beauty is far more than a nymph
You are in need of a husband and not a man to offer you filth

49. But all that came around are those that club, drinks and greets with fists
Your sensible friends tagged them “eat and run”
You seem blue with all hope lost, you need not think hanging yourself with a rope
Just try and cope but PUSH
You got tired with the feeling of giving up a ghost
Your right mind brought you back to the world that it is trick
You want to close your eyes, open them and meet yourself in a hospital ward
Ready to quit, leave your body here and your soul above
Causing rift between your body, mind and spirit
Don’t pay attention to their grudge, just PUSH
Life is always slowing in down, like a bride travelling on a train
Staying up all night, taking ale
Dreaming monkeys in the London zoo, slipping down the slope
Trying to fit in people’s definition of life is a big mistake
Even if you dislike your enemies, let them know that
Life is a question no one that can answer, and death is an answer no one can question
So whatever the page of life offers to your age mate, don’t feel any bad, just PUSH
Pray Until Something Happens

50. MARRIED
Physicsor fleeces, I hear one, I don’t know which
My mind’s not there, I stood warning myself,
Now, sitting on the sofa
In the middle of the night
Restless, I am
The night became day, And day too night, my eyes seeing dawn
My soul singing down, I just got married, and in my merry time
My wife still fresh, cos I got her fresh, But after few weeks
I got sick of her, she looks not fresh, and she needs this refresh
Bored, I am
I wanted another
Another her
Another beauty
Another lady
I thought of going, going as far, As far as I can

51. To get another, Of course, I got another
Now, the gimmicks
Won’t I get tired of this? This new one, even in less weeks
Than I got weak of my wife, who in sincerity makes my life alive?
I’m sure I will, in lesser weeks than envision
Then I’ll look back and forth
Talk to my heels and march forth
To search for another, in a place as far as
My wife and the new won’t know
To get another
Another her
Another beauty
Another lady
Now in months, get tired again of her, another her
Then change again and another, and another
Enough of the pretense of no network when my wife’s present and a lady calls
While all these ladies are busy networking themselves and talking me nuisance
Calling me menace to the world

52. I have to talk to friends, but they won’t understand
Should it be alright if I tell my wife
I pray but couldn’t bail me out
Maybe I wasn’t praying with the right frame of mind
Maybe God who could save me wants to save me through me
So I sat myself down, not on the chair but ground
Not at home but outside, an internal accord of peace
I prayed first, then
I called myself
I spoke to myself
I reasoned myself and I told myself within myself
Now I’m free
Instead of jumping from one lady to another, one beauty to another
God taught me content
He taught me patience
My train’s not derail
My brain never drain

53. I got no migraine
God showed the way

54. THOUGHT IN THE DARK
Upon a bed
After a night of mingle
In the middle of the jungle
Despite the day hustle
I eventually fell and stumbled
The day if I had seen
I would not have wish
It comes, but it eventually came and passes
The day I met beauty
That lies in all eyes
Not just the beholder
That held my heart
And made it bold
The day I saw beauty
Yet to be read
In any book or poem

55. Book of praise
Of raised love or beauty
The day became night
I want to elope
With the aura of what I found
But couldn’t cope
I had to live by
The night I saw myself
The night I felt myself
The night I thrilled myself
The night I enjoyed myself
All by myself
The night I spoke
Spoke of beauty
Beauty of the day
The day I wish not
Not have been written

56. I said a word
With a meaning
She replied words
With meanings and strings
Natural, I thought
We’re all alone
Alone in the dusk
Until dark filled it up
Dark and shadowed we’re
Something Happened!
After a short time
Time I couldn’t estimate
Open were my eyes
My heart filled with tears
Without me cry
My life I thought
I cried for long
Screamed in whisper

57. No one could answer
I had just fornicated
What and how
Would I explain?
On that day
When we will meet
I wish he forgo it
I wish he never ask
I wish he frees me
But only him, knows best
Thought in the dark

58. ONETHING
Onething I know, you can’t live this world like you are all alone, but you will
leave, all alone
If you try to live like is just you, humans will make you feel like is not you, they will
make you see that is not you, they will make you live like is not you
They fight your spirit in the day and at night, they lit your light fright in emotions,
they visit you physically, offend, disturb and make you a psychopath
Something I do, I choose God as my all and live life like am none
One thing I know
Life I see is binomial, I’ll like to speak algebra, you can’t be a man and a woman, you
can’t laugh and cry at a time, you do one
When I was much younger, I thought I’ll grow stronger but as I grew older, I found
myself weaker, I felt I knew more than everyone else, but when I see better I realized,
everyone knew and I do not
I took a vivid look with my eye lids down in my lucid state, I see God in my mind’s eye
And I got a feeling that he without God is a living dead, or a dead living…

59. TRUTH
Buildingblocks around the sun
Hanging clocks to remind them of down
Expecting no sound from glockenspiel
About the coming and rising of dawn
Ducks afloat the walking waters
Smiling and intermittently dipping their heads in water
Listening to the docile tunes, and symphonies
Of the duckweeds and hyacinth
The cock wishes he could hawk the duck
Take him off his lovely home and mock him on his own
He wishes he could duck-nap him in truck; lock him up in a rock far away
And hide the truth from no one
So what’s the essence of building blocks around the sun, fencing the truth?
When the world knows that, though myopic, the truth always, slowly but surely finds
its way to the peak, without a sneak

60. The cock wishes he does all to the duck, but sure knew that the aftermath will be
complex
But killing this complexity won’t make him rest, and he couldn’t guarantee the next
He couldn’t even make a guess, for truth is always the apex
You could lie about your house, saying it’s so clean that it got no single mouse
Lie about your tie and shirt, blouse and skirt that you do not wear them to flirt
You could deceive your family and friends
That your bad ways you will mend,
So they will tend to fend, and bend their rules for you,
To see if you will blend with good ways
You could receive the message of white
And deliver black to your master,
Pretending to not be the monster,
So as to foster glad tidings, but little wonder why you fail to ponder that this tidings
might hit you sorrow
You could make your wife believe fallacy
About your past, saying is better you hide the past

61. But the heat of the past could blast and cause blisters
You could tell the world your service is selfless
Only you know you are selfish
You could promise to spend the people’s money on the people but eventually spend it
on your honey
Your honey know it’s wrong but will pretend it’s right, but please sit tight because
the truth wind will sweep you all right
You don’t bother when you tell the truth
Because you will say the same thing even in years
You’ll need not exercise any fear
You’ll be bold to say it loud and clear, anywhere
But when you tell lies
You know what happens
You can’t tell it anytime, anywhere and to anyone
Lie is fake and temporary
Truth is fair and honorary
Don’t be fake, Be truthful

62. THE THREE TREES
Thetree is so small
See her! , her oversized slippers and torn singlet
Her seeds wander at the mall
Her branch is the lead valet
She was filled with pall
When she gave birth to triplet
None knew the pot could fall
It did, and the water became rivulet
She answered when death called
And went away like a stolen bracelet
The three trees are tall
Gifts of nature, finer than pearl millet
In minds, they were installed
Sitted, drinking in their goblets
Their looks show the befall

63. Bringing pain like a cricket
They are the mind’s overall
Scary as an air gun pellet
Stand us all in the hall
Waiting for no- users in toilet
Facing life like the wall
Backing the glamorous ballet
Expecting the sporadic ball
Came hitting like a bullet
Lust came through the outlet
Quenching love to its back fall
Love left through the inlet
Longing lust to sky fall
Building lies with a to let
Throwing truth to downfall
Hitting rises with a mallet
And expecting success after all

64. Showing hope in the booklet
The three trees
Pray, Work and Play
Pray
Like you never worked
Work
Like you never prayed
Play
Like you neither worked nor prayed
Pray, spread your words to the lord
Pray, spray your songs to the creator of all
Work, walk in your world
Work, as you can, listen to no man’s word
Play, sprawl your fun
Play, lie on your sofa and say the lay aloud
Don’t let the three trees get on your way to loving for God’s sake.

65. THE PROPHET (SAW)
AliamdulilahiRobili Anlalamin
I ended the prayer so say Amin
And listen, what does it take to be mean?
What does it take to be seen in scenes above all sins?
Although, I’m a sinner, but I know with his light, I am a winner
My sight may be slimmer but the brights and rights in his light will heal the iller
I hold my pen and I try to travel into the realm, the abyss of exoticism, the deep
chasm
But as I think and I try to link with the outer world, my eyes blink and it dries my ink
My soul sail and it capsizes, it flies and it crash-land
My thoughts then sink…. Then, something just struck my mind, that
Like water, he feeds the seeds of plants,
Like cutter, he clips the weeds of plants, I utter
Aliamdulilahi, thanks to Allah, and by Allah, Walahi
I will never ever lie that he is the reason for creation and this is our season of
celebration
In the month of Robil’Awwal, he was born into this world, he was brought into this
world, he came into this world and he was given the world raw and was given the
world pure without adulteration
And salvation is his mission to the nations of the world

66. Since he is the human awwal, he is like the sun that lights up the day at noon, and
like the moon that brights up the dark at night, when the sun has gone too soon
HE is the light of the world, HE is the light of the word, HE is the light of the void, HE
is the light of the laws, HE is the life of all, HE is the light of the life of all without
flaws
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
Am not sorry to say that he is life
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
Do not worry, he’s the way, he leads right
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
Do not hesitate to taste and take from the breathe of his faith and fate
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
The friend of Allah that never ends
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
The friend of Allah that needs no mend
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
I love, loved and will continue to love him
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
More and more, I clamour for his love
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam
More and more, I pray for his love
Sollallahu Allaihim Wasallam

67. this is just the beginning
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