5-7-5 Poetry Contest Writing Contest on FanStory.com

5-7-5 Poetry Contest Writing Contest on FanStory.com

Destiny will come

When I am ready for it

But now, let’s enjoy

 

I’ve Not Seen

I’ve not seen an end without a beginning

I’ve not seen a sunset without rising
I’ve not seen death without life
I’ve not seen rain without clouds
I’ve not seen old age without youth
I’ve not seen a child walk without crawling
I’ve not seen a tree without root
I’ve not seen a rock without a base
I’ve not seen an ocean without a depth
I’ve not seen light without darkness
I’ve not seen an earth without a ground
I’ve not seen a globe without an axis
I’ve not seen civilization without primitive
I’ve not seen a mountain without a buttress
I’ve not seen an exit without an entrance
I’ve not seen a closure without an opening
I’ve not seen good without evil
I’ve not seen a nation without history
I’ve not seen an ascending without descending
If Jesus never descended he wouldn’t have ascended
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning
But let us not forget our little beginnings
There’s never been an end without a beginning
A death without a birth

Merry Xmas People
Let’s celebrate the birth of Christ come 25^th

I Am Happy

 

As I sat in my balcony

To unravel life’s irony
A sensuous feeling, my blood burned
Coursing to my heart, it warmed
Then I felt a glow on my face
My lips parted in a smile

Why am I happy? I asked
The economy is smoked
Natural disasters everywhere
No excitement left anywhere
Hunger and strife have become the clime
Poverty and crime escalated to a prime

Then I remember
Even in stormy weather
There’s still hope somewhere
Even in a journey to nowhere
We stay strong as one
Like a bundle never to be torn

Looking at each other face
Catching somebody’s gaze
That gleeful smile
With rapport and gale
Then I realized why I’m happy
Because I chose to be happy

Once A Virgin

Stranded I am in an unfeeling world

My heart aches terribly from pain beyond words
I remember when I was eighteen and shy
Young, beautiful and budding like a butterfly
In love I was and sang with the birds
My head swirled up in the skies
Then I came crashing hardly
From colossal heights unworldly

He was my very first love
Or was he my first lust?
We burned in the heat of love
Love as pure and innocent as a dove
He brought murder to my virginity
I had a rebirth in my femininity
Out of that passionate night came a son
Who has become my sun

A single mother I am
Left by the world to damn
My lover gone in a single blink
Deserting me in a cruel world to sink
But in my gloomy life
I’ve found a streak of sunshine
That son borne out of shame, disgrace
Has become my joy, my happiness

As I look into his sparkling eyes
And behold his innocent gaze
There is no river I can’t cross
Nor mountain I can’t climb
Though there’ll be upheavals
For him I’ll stay strong
For in him I found a reason to live
A purpose, a reason to be happy

I Wish I Could Say I’m Free

 

I wish I could say I’m free

To stand in one place as tree
In the company of my like
Feeling green even as things hike
Feeding from my depth
The food I stored without debt
Nourishing my stems, with laughter
Flaunting my fair leaves with luster
Dancing to the rhythm the wind whisper
And vaunting even as the breeze flounder

I wish I could say I’m free
To live like an Eagle that I see
Being the praise of mankind
The envy and passion of my trend
Flying to great altitudes and heights
Soaring to unknown worlds and sights
Feeling the sun on my face and feathers
And let the wind carry me across many weathers
Swooping down at will to make my choice of food
And have none decide for me whether or not be nude

I really wish I could be free
But some things wished can never be

You Shall Be Missed

 

I cried when I saw the fire everywhere

With help to be found nowhere
It is a sight so pitiful
And a memory so painful.

Was it not yesterday
Full of life and hope for another good day
They all climbed aboard
Even the smiling hostesses were on board.

I saw their beautiful faces
Looking sassy and free from faze
Men and women from different facets
Every one of them flying to an ill fate.

Now they are all gone
Even those that are yet to be born
For this unbearable loss
Nothing can serve as a redress.

The wives of the victims are crying
The children of the deceased are weeping
The husbands of the dead are in desolation
And written all over our faces are despair and depression.

But what can we say
God gives and God takes
Under His bosom we pray they may stay
And never wander off like a little child who strays.

To the weeping wives, we bring comfort
To the crying children, we give support
The husbands, we console
And to all Nigerians, we should condole.

Memory is a way of holding on
To the people that keeps us on
To the things that keeps us rolling
With laughter when we remember what keeps us going.

We know that you are up there watching us
Although your departure with sorrow fills our hearts
But still we promise to bear your memories forever
For they shall never be forgotten, never.

We now know what it means to lose
For our system is so loose
But we pray that next time, our enemies will pray amiss
For our loved ones we still miss.

I Won’t Give Up

In the face of hopelessness

I see hope
In the face of helplessness
I see help
Though my stomach is in knots
And my knees about to give out
Still I can’t think of giving up
Though darkness now encompasses me
And it seems I’m drowning in a deep ocean
Still I have faith that soon the storm will be over
And the morning will come
My hopeless hope
I hold on to
My dreamless dream
I dare not let go
Even if the end is to come
I still shall not worry
For the end of a thing
Marks another new beginning