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A Note of Warning

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‘f you make me fall in love with you

Please don’t say you were not warned

For as I fall, I’ll break some bones

Lame in love to rise no more.

 

Start to count the cost

For it will take the world

To talk me out a jot

Of making you my world

 

Please don’t leave your heart ajar

Not even slightly, please be warned

For like a bandit, I will barge in

To build a wall across that door

 

Get a court letter

 But it will take forever

To pull me out an inch

Of loving you for ever

 

 

Don’t lead me on please I’m pleading

If you don’t need a second skin

For like the dusk chases the dawn

I will, till our shadows become one.

 

Run with a thousand feet

Fly with a thousand wings

But I’ll have to lose my sight

To lose you from my sight

 

-Tolu Akinyemi 2012

Stolen Water and The House of Slaughter

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The night had sent the sun to sleep; and yet he took a stroll at ease

Upon a path the wise desist, and there she lives, with honey’d lips

Clad in strips she laid in wait, and for a prey to pass her way. Continue reading

Purple Dreamer

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Amidst a sea of naked thorns

I found in peace  a rose, un-torn

Within a purple dreamer’s eyes

(Arrested by a single gaze)

I bathed deep in tranquil bliss

 

Will my eyes, one more gaze grace?

Or would it be like yesterday

(Forever buried by today)

Maybe aye, maybe nay

Only the  purple dreamer knows.

 

Tolu Akinyemi 2011