Fall Apart

Famine
in the land of green
Our land,
infested by greed
The gods are on holiday
Invaders have looted away.
The whistle blows
predators are on the prowl
Death is on parole
Sheep's head will roll.

by Adewale Samuel

Search Me

 Murder
at the Truth mansion
The suspect is at large
The killer lives,
in my heart.
Night time...
I walk this path again
in pursuit of
these foot prints of blood
In circle, I wander
this path keeps leading
back to me.
Crestfallen,
to Heaven I pry
for what wrong I've done
An angry face
falls back from 'yond
The place I once knew there
is gone.

 By Adewale Samuel
                          

The Pedestrian's Diary

Fiery,

like it's out to kill,

the sun blazes,

to roast.

Inhabitants are ambivalent

Hawkers slice the traffic,

Their wailing voices

in cahoots with the deafening honking,

irritating and annoying

The noise for survival.

A city that will never die

populous and pompous

Poverty, emblazoned on its chest

We struggle,we survive

And we complain...

The streets are unlike sane

Lawmen extort with no shame

A preacher-man's bell shrills aloud

Beggars seek God's face in the cloud

The slothful and the jobless argue
at the newspaper stand

A ticket-man grabs an okada-man

Lunatic fly the yellow buses

a knocked-down woman unleashes
curses.

A soldier man takes a leak

by the road side

A destitute man makes porridge

under the bridge,

sharing his lighter with a lout

who makes out with ganja in a corner.

I am the pedestrian

a policeman just slapped.

poem by Adewale Samuel

The black uniform

Flashes

Torches clutched in their hands

In the dark they lurk

Scarecrows of the night

in their uniform of no shame,

hovering for their next prey.

A coin for their honour

Men of disgrace,

stirring my quiet rage

for they confiscate all my grain

my whole day gain.

My voice is fractured

words perished in my belly

They climb high to God

I hope they fall.

Solitary

Please sting not
Unclasp my heart
and begone.
Let me be
a world away from you.
Look at what you did her
Seen what you did him?
They are wrecked
ruined as crop.
You are such a bad news
Now you ricochet to me?
You little jiggery-pockery thing
I swear by the air that I breathe
You'll never find a place in my heart
I will never,never love.

poem by Adewale Samuel

One Night Stand

Murdered
on my feet I am
as soon as you sprouted,
in the gleam of the moon.

Concrete body,
you are carved like an onion
You bulge in every nook and cranny
I picture an elephant in a jeans.
 Like a tree's torso,
a pair of coconuts
call me from you
my mouth falls shamelessly
asunder
Hell, I am damned!
Your sinful gait,gracefully
undulates your bounty
to gradually do my hormones
I am imploding.

My chest heaves
like the tide of an evil sea
My hiccuping heart
hits against the bars
in desperation for a peek.
Your fruity lips,
from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
are cumbersome and sumptuous,
Was planted to bring my fall.
I am falling.
You are my ticket to hell,
the forbidden.

I empty my pocket
for all,in your bucket.

poem by Adewale Samuel

A Drunkard's Paradise

Here he comes
Right to left,
swaying like a dry falling leaf.
Home he comes not
To his paradise to sleep,
he goes.
Oh, magnificent!
the peace and coziness
of a better world,
the scent of burning incense
and the warming aura.
Angels will wreathe him,
play him songs of his delight
He will sip heavenly wine
and flirt with every pulchritude
Oh, what a dream!
when he wakes up from his cloud-cuckoo land
at dawn,
he will be climbing out from the gutter.

Martyr

They grabbed him,
hauled him
violently to the street's dark corner
He was petrified,
screaming at unmeasurable pitch
until diminishing returns
They battered him
to a state near death.
When he was a pulp
they stripped him
cursed and spat
Hung him on the wall
stabbed him through the heart
And watched him hemorrhage,
jerking.
There, he died.
Love died.

poem by Adewale Samuel

Life

Life is the ball
in the game of football
knocked here and there
up and down.
Goalless
Life was good
if there was a goal.

Life is a hunk of food
taken into the mouth
Crushed and chewed
between the teeth
Swallowed
to face the turbulence
of decomposition
Stripped of its nutrients
Rendered useless
Defecated into the water closet
and ending up
in the HELL of sewage
life was good
if HEAVEN is sure,
and life made it there.

Anomaly

School is a fool
Books are no food
for a belly to be filled
a dream must be killed.

Night is a prey
I kill to survive
Marauders at my door
my ear on the floor.

Wealth is a curse
There is a serpent in my purse
must my blood be spilled,
for the oil in the field?

Religion is a bug
fattened by innocent blood
I butcher for my belief
assured of relief.

copyright 2010 Adewale Samuel.

Hopeful

Knees on earth,
I beg of you
to stay.
You bid farewell.

I flirt with poverty,
make love to hunger
three times
a day.

Hopeful,
holding you once again
in my repentant arms
never letting go...

poem by Adewale Samuel.

Beautiful Eyes don't Cry

You are scared
Lonely.
Clouds are scudding,
gathering, to pee.
You are venting,
the killer inside
And your rain falls
on my shoulder
Here is the healer,
my finger on your sensual lips
Hush!
my soft words in baritone
You may blush
no more rush.
Electric,my touch
on your pudenda
now you may surrender
and take me in.
Unbridled reassurance,
breaking the clouds and the darkness,
ascent of the sunshine
in your eyes
and my airless whisper,
Beautiful eyes don't cry.

ARTWORK

Beautiful artwork by God
In her swift mastered gait
to make every eye scoot
after her
Believe me,she knocks the brain
like champagne.

Ignorant of my existence
who wallow
wallow in love
And hundreds of her seeker
savoring her ambience.

A portrait for the eyes only
untouchable,otherwise I would heist
In auction, conquers her price
To war,gladiators go
for her prize.

Across the street
in solitary I sit,
Cowardly and silently in love
taking gander at her
Overwhelmed by the thought of loss
of the ungrasped.
With her, I will never be.

poem by Adewale Samuel.

A SCARY NIGHT

The face of the moon
is veiled by the drifting cloud
The stars
are clad in black paint
Deep, wide, and endless
A scary night.

Horrific melody,
hooting and wailing from distance
Squeaking and creaking nigh
Tapping
on my roof,
the hoofs
of a sudden rain.

Barging wind,
banging my door
To its bidding
my window's wings flap
My name spews into the atmosphere,
the whisper
of a spooky prowler.

Audible
The thunder rages,
holding a flashing sword
to do loose demons
into swaying debris.
A scream and a thud
at my front door.

poem by Adewale Samuel