The Future Is Still Bright
The future is still bright
Even when I haven't seen a great light
The future is still bright
Even when all I see is night.
The future is still bright
Even if I can't see what I hope for insight
Living a cantankerous life
Terrified with the issues of life
Starving with the depth of lies
Binding with the soils of miry
I say the future is till bright..
Tears may seen to be your hobby
Flowing all round your body
Disappointment your everyday experience
As if there is no more favour in existence.
Structured a good life
But been caught in depth of lies
Looking at the path you take,
Seeing lack of great intake.
Confusion all the way
Found in your lane and still carried astray.
Love with all of&n...
My Grandmother's House
Two little rooms in a little apartment,
With little windows and little doors
And the littlest lady of them all,
Sitting, feet barely touching the kitchen floor.
Knitting little sweaters for little children
With eyes of blue and hair the color of wheat,
As they sprint across the narrow hallway
In the midst of that summer’s heat.
She poured us warm chamomile tea
And sliced freshly baked bread and butter.
Little feet dangled off the chairs
As we dipped our fingers in palettes of watercolor.
When the wind rose in the afternoon sun,
We put our little shoes on and sprinted down the stairs
Tripping around corners as we missed steps
But as lo...
The meeting
The Meeting
As water runs through the body and enters every pore.
As water rakes through the hair.
As hope lits the face; with the prospect of standing before the Lord of the worlds.
As tears shimmer in the eyes and drop with every word said to the Lord of the worlds.
As shoulders drop in weariness.
As relief comes from prostrations in submission, and the lips muttering every single word filled with emotions.
The meeting with my Lord has come.
© Ni'motallah ideraoluwa
...FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
Down the flotsam and jetsam of the city
on a fiery sunny day
wandering along the
streets of the cosmopolitan city
I was praying earnestly
for a secluded, serene, calm and tranquil corner
of the city which is ‘far from the madding crowd’
where silence, peace, coolness reigned supreme
in order to release the red hot lava
flowing down the volcano of my fretting and fuming mind
since more than an hour.
To my surprise and embarrassment
some unseen force led me to this Hall of Silence
to the music of silence.
In the pin drop silence
where almost hundred
people had assembled and meditated
I too joined them and took my seat in one
of the concrete chairs and started meditating.
How long I sat there, no idea
But I experienced the comfort of peace,
tranquility and serenity.
From that day...
Poison Becomes Wine
You can't prevent counter attack
But you hurt,
You break into pieces and
Scatter apart.
I had a key of happiness of
Golden color,
You blind thought it fire
What a satire!
I give you pitch darkness
Keep it in mind,
Moon is smiling on my lips
Leaving torment behind.
Will you give me pain?
So easy?
I can only give and don't take
Freakish and crazy.
I tolerate and love blue pain
Out of fun,
Cup of poison becomes wine
In the long run.
...I Just Wanted To Be Okay
I just want to be okay
I just want to be at peace
I’m so tired of pretending
Pretending that everything is fine
Im exhausted of hiding how I truly feel
I am never okay
I am never enough
I'm always battling inside myself
The demons
The voices
Everyone and everything is pulling me down
When can I just let go
When can I be free of all this hatred
It’s like it never wants to leave
I feel like I’m always going to be in pain
Then I ask why
What did I do to deserve this
I thought I was a good person
But this pain
This hurt I feel
It’s never ending
...
Bygones
Grab a friend
Have a blast
For in the end,
They could be your last
A hand you lend
Lend it fast
That friend
Is in the past
Unless...
You let bygones be bygones
'Cause the affection you send
Makes you friends 'till the end.
Just Watch
Watch
Watch as the clouds go by
Watch the birds fly
Then
Watch them fly back again
You see a hen
When
The air roars
In a twist of fury
Yet you stay
You Just Watch
Change
When you feel trapped in your own mind
Bring your old self close
Just squeeze it tight
With all your might
And let it go
Let it wither away
For in those ashes
You shall find hope
Hope to begin anew
You
Have
Changed
Together
Light shines brightest in the dark
Warm is hottest in the cold
They cannot exist without the other
But us...
We are bound to this earth by worldly tethers, but we can leave
But we stay, even though we have a choice
To enter the void
To have true freedom
However, there is a reason not to
To stay together
With loved ones
With friends
To stick together until the end
We are,
T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R