The Three Trees

POetRY…

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

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

ALPHABETICAL LOVE

It doesn’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


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


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

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


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.


FRIENDS

Gifts I 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

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

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

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.

BROKEN HEART Please don’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

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

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

COME AGAIN

Come again and I’ll let you stay

Since you went away, I had been in pain


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

Just as my dad does





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

I eventually stood losing your blessings





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

Come again, come ease my pain

Come again, come save my slain

Come again, come show the main

AIM HIGH

Landscape escaped 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

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

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.

SLAVE

Morning came 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

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

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

Not now, not anymore,

I CEASE BEING A SLAVE

DOWNPOUR

The cunning 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

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

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

FAITH

Sand upon 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

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

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.

FEELINGS

Blind eyes 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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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


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.

NAIJA

Dem dey 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

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

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

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

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

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.

MOTHER

Stumbled in 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

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

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

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.

PUSH

The predator 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

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

MARRIED

Physics or 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

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

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

I got no migraine

God showed the way

THOUGHT IN THE DARK

Up on 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

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

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

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

ONETHING

One thing 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…

TRUTH

Building blocks 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

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

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

THE THREE TREES

The tree 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

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

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.

THE PROPHET (SAW)

Aliamdulilahi Robili 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

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


Do not worry, he’s the way, he leads right


Do not hesitate to taste and take from the breathe of his faith and fate


The friend of Allah that never ends


The friend of Allah that needs no mend


I love, loved and will continue to love him


More and more, I clamour for his love


More and more, I pray for his love


this is just the beginning

AJALA, Sodiq Babalola

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