IF I GIVE YOU MY HEART?

If I give you my heart what will you do with it?

Will you treasure it or let her wither and die?

Will you keep it to yourself or let her freely fly?

Will you keep her close but dearly to your heart?

Will you love her back with everything you've got?

Or let her be lonely for the rest of her life?

Will you take her with you wherever you go?

Or abandon her in a room without a window?

Will you allow her feelings to be broken?

Will you over the years her beauty forgotten?

Will you cuddle and keep her warm all through the night?

Or leave her in the cold without a shelter in the dark?

Will you share with her the things you treasure?

Will you treat her with kindness, care and affection?

Will you care for her like I have always appreciated you?

For I have got but one heart craved only for you

© Akan Udofia E. 2014

GOODBYE TOMORROW

The pains I can no longer bear

Loneliness embraced each year

The cloud above me every day is gray

Couldn't share the burden with you yesterday

The sky is out of reach, every effort void

You were never here when searching for a friend

I called out your name but a stranger you were to me

Now I leave the world to be cleansed of me

All my life, thought I could find love to stay

But hatred and strife increasing everyday

Yesterday I fought for, but everything is gone

I waited for a blue sky but never found the sun

Wished someone solves what misery my heart goes through

Wished the rain drown the worries, failures and woe

I couldn't see October, for she was further away from you

Life has been slow from birth, trees planted yet no dew

I am sorry; I never meant to go away at all

Just can't live in an obsolete world anymore

The world will not miss me; she made me wear a fragile smile

All the life I thought I had was all a lie

© Akan Udofia E. 2014

DREAMS

As kids we all had dreams

Stocked in our tender heads

Actors in our dreams

Leaders in our realms

Our hands, bread winners for some

The rest on platter of gold at home

At a tender age we dream big

In order to fit to the wig

We watched the cars in fleets 

As our eyes gazed at the streets

The red, the black and blue

The cost our heads never knew

Time passes like the fleet

As we strive to make ends meet

I achieved all my dreams with my tongue

Not knowing it'll hold me this long

My heart barely worried about my stomach

All I craved for was to make a mark

For everything we had, we shared together

Believing everything would last forever

I have been battling a million thought

What life is worth?

Did my dreams make a flight?

Did I forget the path of light?

I am pregnant of a dream

But I wish this life were like a film

Where the cast know their roles

And fly where ever their dream goes

(c) Akan Udofia E. 2014

Edited by Awa Chigozie Jerome