NO PROMISES

I don't promise to be a heroine 
That I can take away your pain 
I don't promise to be a princess 
That I will always make you smile

I don't promise to be perfect 
That your heart wouldn't get broken 
I don't promise to be romantic 
That your emotion wouldn't get hurt 

I don't promise to be a servant 
To warm your feet when they are weak 
I don't promise to be your ideal woman 
That I can meet all your need 

You've got to take me for who I am 
Be patient and don't stop cuddling me 
Hold me gently my imperfection 
I could be an angel lost inside 

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A SUNNY DAY

 

A ray of hope smile through the window
As the day walks by, her reflection sat on the table
Shadow hiding behind disappointments of previous day
Feelings can't be suppressed by a mountain irrespective how high it lay

In the hand of time, though life can be compromised
It doesn't matter how far is the sky or the cloud
Let the wind kiss the mind and doubts freely fly
Tomorrow can't be that bad if you can see where the day lies

Tag along if the day is going for a walk
Life is calm when the day is just waking up
A butterfly is beautiful because she is in love with the morning
This got nothing to do with either or not you have money

With eyes closed, deep down the heart you can find happiness
The world can't make you feel sad without your consent
Don't ever let go the pride and joy of a beautiful day
Look out the window, for its a sunny day

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WAIT A MINUTE

Stop what you are doing and reflect for a minute
Do you think the world would've being better without you?
Don't you think life is fair, you didn't get all you deserved for a reason?
As does the sun shine in our lives for different purpose

Do you see things clearer when you cry?
Or you think you deserve all the goods things in life?
Its depressing when we are sad, 

Perplexed when nothing is working out

We never choose to be a king or a slave
But life got others plans concealed from man
Have you really wondered why when we grow?

Life becomes heavy, demanding and frustrating

We go to bed with worries clouding the heart
Questions unanswered, resolutions unresolved
Despite this, man one day his soul will give up
Sorry, I just cant get this feelings of my mind

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WHO TOLD YOU THAT?

Who told you if you kill a brother
That life's going to be alright?

Who told you when you smile
That the beauty of a smile wouldn't last forever?

Who told you life will forever be unfair
That in every war there wouldn't be a survival?

Who told you the bond of love isn't strong
That its not enough to stop a country from being shattered?

Who told you in the world, you can't find true love
That every heart God created, He didn't make a pair?

Who told you between the lies there is no truth
That lies ain't told sometimes to protect the ones we love?

Who told you life can't get better
That the fervent Prayers of the church ain't enough to save us? 

Who told you the world wouldn't come to an end
That you are going to be alive forever?
 
Who told you?

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THE EXPRESSIONS POETRY FESTIVAL (TEPF 2015)

It is my pleasure, ADUBI LITERARY CAVE to present EDUN POETRY PRODUCTIONS for our 2015 Poetry festival series which is the best, without its kind.

We are mainly on the stance of promoting literature and this has being our focus from the birth of our literary organization. We deem it fit to have a worldwide poetry festival which is going to touch deeply all the genres of literature. But this year, we tag this forthcoming event to be Poetry festival.

Call and come to listen to literary paper and lecture deliveries which touch the women in poetry, and societal issues.


We use this medium to call on Organizations, firms, financial institutions, boards and individual to contact us for booking for space. and time for exhibitions, oral Poetry performance in both English and indigenous languages, didactic music, and other literary related packages. We are expecting your calls and mails from any part of this universe.

Date : 19th December 2015
Venue: 19 Adekunle Fajuyi way, Eniobanke Music center Ikeja Lagos.
Time: 9:00 a.m
Ask Adubi Literary Cave on http://nibstears.blogspot.com/ 

for more enquiry.
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BROKEN DEMOCRACY

On the news is billion of naira missing
Suffering and death in the north 

Everyday an innocent child is dying 

Teachers on strike, workers unsatisfied 

Children hawking on the street day and night
Solders suppressing the weak, police immoral
Lawyers and judges, callous and greedy
No social amenities to uplift the society 

Accusing fingers pointed to the masses
Infrastructures dead, roads dead, no electricity
The government sit on millions to deliberate our fate
Mock our trust, loyalty to selfishness trade

They tell us lies upon lies and broke our pride
Stole away our dignity and left the heart to fry
Yet the government betray the masses for asking why
 We live in a country with a broken democracy

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THE END OF DAYS

As the world's coming to the end of her days
Heaven weep upon God's efforts to savage man
The cloud heavily burdened by the sins of man
As man seeks refuge in the gates of hell 

Angels walk amidst the day restoring God's will for mankind
Yet the world is dissatisfied, drowning in ecstasy of selfishness and greed
Pleasured in destruction and content in lust
Worshiping in vanity of an unjust life

Time is too short to sleep
The night's waxing away gradually in the heart
Life bear no love, no faith, no hope, for all will be gone
And everyman judged, out of the content in his heart

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TIME

Who stole away time? 
I seem to have lost track of time 
Can't find dreams seeking for
Don't know where I am 

Please can you give me back my time?
I just want to find the things that makes me happy 
Live in a world encircled with hope 
And blessed with love 

Where I can find angels walking by 
Trees planted and roses watered 
With all the time I have in the world 
Appreciated and treasured

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NO MORE

No more sorrow, no more weeping
No more shedding blood on the street
No more hatred, no more strife
No more destruction on innocent life

No more guns and war
No more homelessness for the poor
No more neglecting the well-being of a child
No more tears in a mother's eye

No more grave in our backyard
No more hiding in the dark
No more scarcity of food and water
No more conflict unresolved on our border

No more hope and shelter broken
No more heroes forgotten
No more pain and suffering
No more lies and deception

No more famine and starvation
No more false doctrines and religion
No more pride and downfall
No more nightmares at nightfall

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STILL WATER

Still water come into my heart
Come ease the burden of a repulsive heart
Its been difficult, life on my own
The flowers in my heart withered and gone


Man is prone to scarcity of love
The world's evolving each second
Depression staking the resourcefulness of life
The reason the world's depreciating instead


I have tried to think things through in my head
Its burdensome hearing voices weeping instead
I wish deeply for the heart to be calm
Someday, dreams alive will come

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WHEN LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

The heart must search her own path
The odd on a journey with a plight
She must seek no retribution
To be sober to the woes of men 

A path alone in a world unknown
Is a heart waiting on the altar
Bond to a soul mate yet revealed
Birth with love and compassion

When Love is not enough
Life becomes a sad and lonely fortress
But the heart must never give up
Until true happiness is found

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TEARDROPS

Teardrop down my eyes
I don't understand why
I live in a world not alone
Yet in my heart I cry

I used to draw a picture of my dream
But can't find them hanging on the wall
This reminds me why I wake up without a smile
When I see the cloud hovering the sky

Life nowadays is confusing
It's driving me out of my mind
Wish I knew where the world's heading
Maybe time will rest on my hand

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

LOVE FOUND ME

I was lost and lonely

In a world away from winter

It snowed all through the night

The heart shattered and fragile

Life drifting off her existence

Dying in a broken shaft

Prone to Sadness, in-affection

In the dept of the night

A light flash between the heart

It got filled with compassion

As love fell upon a subtle heart

And stayed therein forever

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ANGEL FALL

Heaven broke
An angel fell
It rained all day
The world sorrowful

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