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Deep Within Me
(Poetry)
2-06-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
Sometimes I look deeply within me and
I wonder what this life is all about
Sometimes I feel lonely
Even when I am in the midst of a crowd
Sometimes I look up to heaven for support
But heaven seems too far away
Sometimes I look down to...
Either
(Poetry)
25-06-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
You are either alive
Or you are dead
You are either living
Or you are dying
You are either healthy
Or you are sick!
You are either at peace
Or you are at war with yourself
You are either a saint
Or you are a sinner
You are...
Falling in love?
(Poetry)
30-04-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
Falling in love?
Some people say love hurts.
Some say love is a wonderful thing.
Some say love is blind or shouldn’t it rather be lust is blind?
Some say love is the best thing to ever happen to them.
Some say it is the worst thing to ever...
Letter to God
(Poetry)
8-09-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
Dear God,
It gives me great pleasure
In writing this piece to you
How has your day been up there?
Fine I guess!
Mine has been superb and splendid too.
Please God could You tell me:
Why the heart of human is so deceptive and wicked?...
My best clothing
(Poetry)
19-04-2008
by Osamuyi Okpame
It is nature’s clothing
It is free, and free indeed!
Not given by social status
But as a gift
It is the best cloth I have ever worn
And it stays with me till the end of time
Only people of this world
Call it whatever they like
They...
My First Love
(Poetry)
22-06-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
How beautiful thou art
You filled my days with laughter
You filled my mornings with glory
How wonderful thou seem
You gave me a name to remember
You took me places I have never been
How happy thou art
You took away my sorrows and...
Only like yesterday
(Poetry)
20-05-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
Your absence seems only like yesterday
Though it’s many days gone-by
Your presence is felt around me
Though you are gone for all eternity!
Your kindness shines in me
Though you can not give me back what is gone
Your gentleness glorifies my...
The debt I must pay
(Poetry)
16-01-2009
by Osamuyi Okpame
In bits and pieces,
all the advice I have been given,
in cash and kind,
all the support
I have been awashed with,
like the fertile earth giving back
what had been sown,
like the moon being generous
with the light it receives,
so I must...
The footstool of the gods
(Poetry)
10-05-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
The footstool of the gods
Africa! Our Africa!! My Africa!!!
The cradle of civilization
The genesis of greed
The heart of barbarism
The footstool of the gods
And the threshold of the Almighty
Many starve with hunger and thirst...
The struggle for life
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Osamuyi Okpame
The struggle for life
And the race against time
From the tiny living cells
To the mightiest of creatures
Life has always been but a struggle
Struggle! Struggles!! and more struggles!!!
Life is always a hot race
And a deal against time...
We Have Everything
(Poetry)
28-10-2008
by Osamuyi Okpame
We have everything
We have nothing
When our children
Become wayward
Our brothers
Become cultists and fraudsters
Our sisters
Become whores and adulterers
Education is taken for granted
Get rich quick,
Becomes our slogan
And...
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