I BRUISE EASILY

I bruise easily for you

My heart has a soft spot for you

I can't fulfill my dreams without you

Only you make my world beautiful

I bruise easily for you

My heart can't look for someone new

I want to spend the rest of my life with you

Will always love you even if the world takes me for a fool

I bruise easily for you

Without you in my life there will be no dew

I wouldn't be sane if someday I lose you

In my dreams all I pray for is to be with you

I bruise easily for you

I don't mind if for you I caught flu

As long the cloud above me is blue

In my heart I will still be thankful

I bruise easily for you

I can't count my feelings for you

No amount of pressure can change the way I think about you

I hope you understand this much as I do

I bruise easily for you

Please don't take me for granted for been crazily in love with you

Please don't hate me for having a crush on you

For thoughts of you makes the world around me magical

I bruise easily for you

I can't seem to take my mind of you

In my heart I want to hug and never leave you

For I will forever love you

(c) Akan Udofia E. 2014

DANCING IN THE RAIN

Tap, tap, tap, the sky cries as tears drop

Like lots of tiny pebbles thrown on a brick wall

As her tears submerged me, it rose my tentacles

The grasses excited beneath my feets

The trees clapping as they beckoned me into their midst

As it rains, it flows underneath the rocks

Slashing sounds of different tune like an organ

Playing for me to dance on and on

If you want to tag along, follow my steps?

One and two, one and two, lift your feet and spread your wings

Let the water flow through your vein

It is fun once you start dancing in the rain

I see my reflecting smiling back at me

My body soaked with the desire to dance on

Every step I take, the wind hallowed under my feet

I felt love as she rains and kisses my lips

And cuddled me with a sensation urging me not to stop

Dancing like a queen on the dance floor

The trees take a bow for it was a beautiful day

You've got to love it when it rains each day

It fills the word with love, calmness and hope

For the earth comes alive as it evolve

All Eights Reaeeved (c) Akan Udofia E. 2014

GHETTO

Life ain't easy growing up in the ghetto

People suffering, no foods, cloths or someone to turn to

Mama always told me to take life easy that she loves me

She hugs me every day as a reminder to love everyone around me

Son, she says, you've got to work hard to make a living

Going through college, getting a job wasn't easy from the beginning

So I went down on my knees and pray

God has a reason for watching over me

Every day I ask God for his plans towards me

I have been putting on the same clothes for years

Graduating out from college was only by his grace

The world doesn't regard me because of where I am from

I vowed in my life to do everything to prove the world wrong

I have got every right to leave a decent life

I used to trek the distance to hang out at my best friend's house

Every day my dreams grew stronger, I knew life can be as deserved

But I couldn't afford to take my girlfriend out,

For I wasn't able to give her the love she deserved

With holes in my shoes, I trend my way seeking for a job that's not lost

I read every book I could find, searching why life is difficult

I sat down one night crying and asked God what I have done

Why suffering for something I knew not when it occurred

I couldn't take care of mom and my little sister

But tried not to leave home without a smile in my hand

I had hope as a companion, only he knows where it hurt me most inside

My dreams are always around me, they remind me to put distractions aside

In the ghetto, we share everything we had together

Love was not scared for everyone was a brother

When it rains, I spent the whole night awake

Watching little drops find their way through my room in the dark

It's beautiful to have a dream, even when they are sometimes vogue

For out of this world, no man can breach the stars from shining above

For no matter what the world throws at me
In life someday the world is going to appreciate me

I am going to make it and fly so high

And look back at the world and smile

(c) Akan Udofia E. 2014