Lanre Akinbo Poems

Life is like a Market Place
Where people hustle and bustle
To make ends meet,
Some are in an hurry,
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In this world,
The law is the shadow
Of the unjust,
Created to cage the just,
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Hmm! Corruption
A key to a lazy man success,
A nation distroyer,
A weapon of oppression and depression,
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Dear Confidant,
It started out as an idle hands
Sitting close to an open window,
Lost in the world of loneliness,
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I've walked down the road of
Trials and tribulations,
I grew up with scars,
Life ain't for wasting,
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Tell Death
If we must die
It should not be in mass,
nor in the hands of bandits.
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That sweet innocence 
Like a flower in the bud 
Growing in a new existence 
Fresh and unflawed,
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Once wild and free, now caged and contained
The teenage spirit struggles to be sustained
Caught in the web of modern civilization
Youthful vitality faces a stifling situation.
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We were five in the room,
Mama whispered her last prayer before bed,
the fan turned slowly, tired like the rest of us.
It was just another night
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We haven't regain our liberty
But they said we are free,
Their mouth is full of lies,
They are the cause of our dissension.
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