ENOCH AANU OJOTISA Poems

If by life cometh death

Then death is a friend.
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It is true you are not my dear;
But it is for you I but once care;
Friends we are for real, but for once;
Never are we lovers for once.
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Jesus Christ,
avoid me crisis,
leave me not;
never to serve in the core north.
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A puzzle it turns out,
That we in turn, turn in at crossed roads of answer.
Fighting not to be fought with mockery
So, I, the originator of this line answered.
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Will you agree to my words?
and will my confessions have a place in your heart?
Leave me not in the passion of emotions,
and suffer not your heart with bitterness.
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When I die because I may die,
Or should I die if I die,
maybe if I die because I ought to die,
let mother earth be a cool room for the cadaver.
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You know just like that, she rose from my bosom and went into another.
With her wrapper tied loosely around the waist i paid dowry on.
In the bosom of another man there she laid and sold what I paid for...
Then a woman I concluded, is nothing but a good you've bought,
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Why have you neglected your conscience?
Why have you so soon not to abreast yourself
With the sacrifice of years and blood,
With which these 'comrades',
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Here we are...
In the middle of the cliff.
Staring at the end again and again.
In the middle of the cliff.
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Truly I am no different from the other.
But you shaped me like a porter;
You raised my eyes to yours in the night of mood;
Though the day was crude;
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