Oyelakin Gbolahan Poems

I wish I could say more than I love you
Even though you know it’s true.
I wish I could tell you I’d do anything for you;
I’d climb the highest mountain,
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I’ll lean on you and you on me,
Then we will be okay.
Friendship is one mind inhabiting two bodies,
One heart inhabiting two bodies.
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People are often unreasonable, incoherent,
incoherent, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
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You came into my life so quick,
A gorgeous pleasant surprise,
I hoped wouldn’t give me the flick;
Then, a beautiful friendship did arise.
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Independence, the hope of every nation;
A day of rejoice
When hilarity and delectation reigns.
A day of rejoice
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Peace,

It is strange to think…
I have not seen you in a month.
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Lay your head on the tender pillow in the night,
Close your eyes to see yourself in the wonderland like Alice;
Mind wide shut, eyes close up and perhaps, mouth partially sealed;
It takes a miracle to see the dawn of the day.
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What sort of love is ‘tis?
That never gets hurt easily,
always patient and forgives;
it anticipates evil and quietly prevails.
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- Quiet intended by the Sovereign (Creator) God
that man may realize how to abase
so as to ascend.
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God took the strength of a mountain,
The sedateness of the hills and valleys,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun;
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