A simple poem for Christmas
In a world where sin ruled A dominion ceased from the fall of men Was a child sent to set men free And live among men for eternity At night was the shepherd flock Visited by…
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Africa in a glance
This is a poem for the Africa of old I can tell you of a place Lovely as a pretty face A land full of greener fields Virile men in melanin skin Mountains high and valleys low…
Choice: God's Gift
Lured by the waves of lust The deceits that seem true before our eyes But deep within are snares with gnashing teeth Waiting, longing, and eager to rip the flesh of its victim…
The scars that shape me
I'm made of pain, the broken pieces of me Precept by precept my torn flesh packed up Each scar an image of pain and brokenness But in them was my strength built I am no longer…
The Weight of an Unsaid Yes
Little did I know time travels Leaving behind the burden I once hope it'd heal And the things I hesitated to embrace There I sat, tick by tick watching it fade away Wishes…
The smell of an old book
In the library of prehistoric documentaries Are books bath in dust and web fibers Yet keeper of stories long forgotten And bricks of current reoccurring events The smell of…
Silence
In a court of justice, my tongue has been glue for long I've being rendered silent My hands chained and feets held in captive In silent I've suffered unjustly Like mushroom I…
The Road Less Traveled On
Two roads appeared in the woods The paths divide, less understood by many One was wide , and the other well-trod and bright The edges bore the feets of many The other obscured…
Why I love poetry
At first I never loved poems, and this was because one needed to connect deeply to every line of it to understand what the poet was saying. It was like speaking gibberish and…
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