Victor Ogoti Poems

Would you believe tonight?
When I tell you in sight,
That I have been here before?
In this self same place
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You are the beauty of my veil
You are the smile on my face
You are the dimple on my cheek
You are the ego of my pride
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If the sun won't rise again,
And my world is swallowed by darkness
Whence no ray would reach
And I can't discern the east from west
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what happened to your former grace
what ate the gait in your pace
that made men crave for a place
in confines of heart a little space
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I have been to the moon
How awesome the contrast
Of the world behold,
and the world behind
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Did you feel the electricity?
Electrons simmering your body
Like strings attaching electrodes
-In a love electrolyte
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Oh what an earth stretch
Of stationery paper
Lying spotless
In seismic grey
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There is so much I want to say
And that’s the problem now
How did one put in writing,
Dreams and desires of a lifetime?
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We’ve walked our different ways
And now we walk one
It matters not yours or mine
For now we walk one
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When I return dear motherland
You’ll take me in, in open hands
And all the wounds of Diaspora hounds
with love and tenderness, washed and wound
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