The One Left Behind

I have two eyes on my face

Two ears by my head

I have two paths on my way

Two sides to which my hips sway

I have spirit and soul

Together they don’t run foul

I have two hands too

One beautiful

The other similarly so

One gets the praise

And to heaven it is raised

While the other gets the chill

The isolation and the frill

My left hand

It never gets anything

They hardly accept her

They hardly respect her

When I stretch her out

Their cultural norms I flout

My left hand

Always to my sides

So beautiful she is

Like her sister and the Great God inside

Wasn’t she carved from dust?

Doesn’t she bath?

Isn’t she clothed?

Isn’t she free?

Isn’t she a similarly beautiful side of me?

My perfect left hand

Unfortunately, the one I once left behind

Write with me now, dance

Paint freely, take your chance

Those won’t shake you won’t touch me

Because without you

I’ll be living incompletely

My hand, the first and same as the other

Like the two eyes on my face

Like brother and brother

Don’t run foul

Stay here and flare

Don’t be hidden from the world’s interesting glare.

Heleleh

I’ve got flames in my hands

Green flames of Heleleh

I’ve got flames in my Spirit

To sow and restore

I’ve got flames in my Soul

I wield the serpent rod

I’ve got flames in my Mind

Storms of light in a flesh pod

I’m the reality of Heleleh

I’m everything and more

I’m outstanding

Simple yes, but Extra-ordinarily Heleleh

I’ve got Flames in my hands

Burning bright green

I’ve got the storm of history

Binding me, setting free

I’m the distinctness of Heleleh

The formlessness of Him

I’m everything and more

I’m the sweetness of Heleleh

The first here, the only on this shore

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Heleleh: Incredible, God.

His Loving Doings

His Love is huge

It raptures me everyday

He lives in me

He inspires me in every way

He turns me around

When the paths turn evil

And he carries me on

When I feel weak and feeble

He believes in my weakness

But He celebrates my strength

He does great things

His Love does not repent

I have stretched His Love

And I have gone the wrong goings

But His Love is here

And so is He, ever growing.

Will You Be My Lover?

Will you be my lover?

The one I call my friend

Will you be the one who enchants my path?

The one with whom I see the end

Will you be that beginning

That Christmas

That ring

Will you be my lover?

That one who makes me sing?

Will you be my lover?

The apple of my eyes

Will you be my fire?

That mild soothing blue fire

Will you be that reality?

That faith that lets me see

Will you be my lover?

Will you see me?

Ile Erupe (Sand House)

A storm has blown the dust to rest

And all our conquests are now lies

A storm has taken away my best

And yet the rest of the world passes by

Our lives of warmth and dust

And the ones unlived and dry

The ones that once loved the most

This still lands now deny

This home is that of sand

Unworthy to keep alive

Please come in only to rest

And at sunrise, just pass by

                                                                                                                For the winds that come

Don’t sleep too long

They return at noon and night

To steal the best and silence love songs

My home is that of sand

This is my lot in life

My home is that of sand

Be my friend, share my life

Heaven Gave you to me

And she is saying no

No to be beautiful

No to inspiring me

No to the warmth she makes me feel

But she doesn't know

It's not her question

It's not her war

She inspires me

She thrills me

She is with me

Yes Africa, you are within me

And I'm you

And more interestingly you are me

Don't hush me

Don't hurt me

Say what you will

And do what you can

In everyday

In every way

I love you

I love everything you are

I don't care about anything you are not

So don't say no

Yes, isn't  the issue

Heaven gave you to me

So be beautiful

Someone Happened To me

Someone happened to me

Someone so fierce I cannot think

Someone happened to me

Someone so beautiful I cannot blink

I did not find him, he found me

I did not love him half  how he loved me

Someone happened to me

Someone who let me love endlessly

Someone happened to me

In many ways that hushed my whirling sea

And someone who happened will be restored

Someone who is everything and more

Someone like Angel

Someone like Time

Someone whose heart beat silk and fine

Oge happened to me

Oge fierce, Oge true

Oge happened to me

Oge, my heart will never forget you.