HAVE I TOLD YOU?

Have I told you how much I love you?

Have I told you lately you mean more than the world to me?

For you are like a lamp that light up my heart

Life with you gives a feeling of been gracefully touched by a goddess

Have I told you how beautiful you made my world?

Have I told how lucky it feel to hugged and hold you?

Have I told you how excited I am when I kissed you?

I wouldn't want to live life another day without you

Everything that gives me joy in life, I found it all in you

© Akan Udofia E. 2014

HOLD MY HAND

Hold my hand, I promise never to let you down

If the world come crashing, I wouldn't let you fall

If the storm's calling, I will be there to lend you a hand

When trying times are near, I will hold you in the morning and evening

When in need of comfort, by your side I will forever stand

If for a reason there is chaos in the world, I still wouldn't let go your hand

I will hold you dearly and forever close to my heart

I wouldn't let the weariness of a broken day separate me from you

In the wilderness of life, I wouldn't let you alone go through

In sorrow and pain I will be right beside you all night

I will be the light that shines in your life in the dark

If someday we got shipwrecked, I will hold on to you until you are safely on the shore

I wouldn't let you go even if the world comes to an end

Hold my hand for I promise never to let you down

© Akan Udofia E. 2014

FOR THE PEOPLE

This is for the people

The common man hustling on the street everywhere

Trying to make a life in Nigeria hash atmosphere

In dismay watch the government each day getting crueler

Children hawking on the street to fend for a younger sister or brother

Who've suffered so much that life’s losing hope

Student’s everyday fighting high tuition fees to cope

Don’t lose hope; God is not done with you

You can make it because He still believes in you

This is for the people

That have been oppressed, denuded and suffered unjustly

You look at the good things found around the world

Wondering if it’s a crime to be happy in this world

For reasons unknown life is unfair to you alone in each day

Good people suffering; bad leaders uplifted and appraised everyday

In time all these sorrow and pain will go away

Tell the heart he can make it if he believes in you

Because God has promised He will never depart from you

This is for the people

Who find it difficult to have a day square meal

Every day craved to succeed putting on more zeal

Committed so much effort on a business or a job

But wealth looks blur, far ahead from what you are searching for

Sons are jobless; daughters are selling their bodies for money

Scared to look at the reflection of life in the morning

If you can be patient and look deeply inside, you will that find success resides

For those who are optimistic and willing to follow their dreams

With God it will work out right for you and me

These is for the people

Who wonder what happened to all the money

Invested in the power sector and economy

Why do we hear so much money input in budgets

Yet we are losing our indigenous wealth to foreign investors

Politicians, contractors are living life at large

While the common man on the street everyday tries to survive

You ponder if you’ve done wrong in believing in your country

Because you have suffered so long for century

Things get bad instead of them to be better every day

Just like our society are nowadays accepting gay

I pray God give us the strength to love ourselves

And more will to love and believe in one self

© Akan Udofia E. 2014