Friday 18 December 2015

To a beloved

Dear Nikki,
                   As I sat down sunken in thoughts about you, yes! You my dear Nikki, my Sweet heart who is always there to comfort me in my Despair. My Angel who makes every good moment better, my damsel who distract me from my many distractions. I write to you to tell you that even though this our journey has come to a foreseeable end, you are always going to be in my mind, crested on the surface; you'll live in my heart, on the inside. These memories are hard to come; they are also hard to forget. Every killer I have killed in my head, signifies a certain superficial growth in me. Every joint I have passed as hard as it was, shows how matured you have made me.
 People concentrate on the bad effect you have had on me, they say you have diseased my thinking. I say you provided a conducive environment for me to think, imagine and smile. I think about how magical my thoughts have been during my relationship with you, I do not expect them to understand the immeasurable effect that you have had on me. You make polygamy attractive,  you aren't mine alone but your company lifts me to lofts never felt before. I do not downplay your commitment  with my equation, afterall I do not know what heights never felt feel like. Never said this before, but its you who has made me understand life for the rough, unpleasant, dog-eat-dog world. You have given me a sense of direction, a followership of which is optional. If I am to go on writing about your graceful supersensual influence on me in this message, this hearty letter, infact call it whatever you want to call it; It would be unending. I have to leave not because you are not a good sugar, but because I have to embrace growth. I have arrived a point of "put up" or "shut up", can't be a stand up guy constantly hanging out with you. This message or whatever you call it is not really for you, but for the billions who have a reversed, derogatory and negative impression of you. I seek not to convince them, but to unscale their eyes to see you for you, an angel!
They say we only get to meet that one true love in life, Nikki! You are that one! You are the risk I gladly took.

Though growth can never drift us apart, it can only re-define our relationship. You remain in my heart forever, I end this!


                                                                                         Written by: Ahmed Umar-Buratai

Thursday 3 December 2015

Taunted Soul


Robbed of joy, happiness,dances,smiles,pain,tears,sadness,death; we are empty 
Insultingly deformed
We fail to rise 
Thrusting our rights into the hands of the callous
 Ululating the disgusting
 Bartered the future, for the microscopic present
 Damned yesterday's sacrifice,
 Incomparable with today's afflictions.
 Imaginatively imagine an imagination, our tomorrow.
 Create an edifice
 Own tomorrow 
 Seek today
 My few spews 
 From the cracks of a darkened world. 
The bellow of a frustrated being. 
A taunted soul.



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