Nichola Okoro Poems

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Your dream dies before you think it
Your hope lies recumbent as the refrain barely begins
You get blind when the light is to be your friend
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This sack possessed by the tenants of the earth
Traces truth the left hemisphere accommodates
Your reverence like the telekinesis that wrought awe
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You talk about doctors when the forest is there
You talk about lawyers when the devil still lives
You talk about the soldiers when the gansters surround me
You talk about oxygen when the air gives all
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Imagine the physiognomy of eternity
When the pangs of polymorphous life
Such dramatic naughtiness
And you never being made independent.
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In nightmares you’re an insignia of omen
As the child astride modernism, you‘re sophistication
To the censure of morals, you’re so obscene
Not even hypocrisy could feel guilty any more
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The more I lack the turpitude I bargain
The more I amass the more righteous I preach
The more I give the more strenuous I become
The more I think the more I flexible
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I told you I shall scour the coal
They set fire …I scoured it
Agnes, you think I shall see those tears in yours eyes?
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This fraternity your symbol rings
One on the engagement finger-two
For couples and they talk of trinity
Our image isn’t the Egyptian pyramid
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The pain in your heart only hope severs
The look in their eyes only truth betrays
The thoughts in their heart only the heart can hide
But what news has the third eyes conveyed?
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