So you say He hung on the tree That I might be set free But I was never shackled I walk free, speak unheckled The one that is in chains knows not Still a slave, though his freedom’s bought So you say He willingly bled That I might not to hell be led Was it… Continue reading DID HE HANG FOR ME?
Month: March 2013
O FELIX CULPA
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Christ is risen from the dead, He has broken Satan’s chain And lives again our glorious head, No one need in hell remain For the grave took Him instead And He cleansed us from sin’s stain, Hell no more should be our bed, Alleluia our refrain, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! O felix culpa,… Continue reading O FELIX CULPA
SCARS OF THE CROSS
First, He had no defender His Father forsook Him His bosom friends rejected Him Denial was the gift of His closest ally Yet, another betrayed Him. Also His beneficiaries reneged The malicious crowd despised Him The blood-thirsty rabid crowd Cheered the mercenary Roman soldiers To execute horror and terror. Arriving Golgotha hill Wicked nails and… Continue reading SCARS OF THE CROSS
RELIGION OF ALL RELIGIONS
How come they face so much humiliation? How come they face so much indignation? Why should they always be the prey? How come they don’t always have a say? We forget our existence is of them Nothing exists without the woman From dust man was made But the woman was from living flesh made Yes,… Continue reading RELIGION OF ALL RELIGIONS
LIKE A LION
Let friends and relatives Leave me and go! I have so many different jobs Of mine to do! Let poets search stages And bend like bows! I too have many fields And seeds to sow! Let orators seek crowds And give their speeches! I have the moon and stars To sit and watch! Let heroes… Continue reading LIKE A LION
RUNNING THE WORLD WHILE OUR HOMES BURN
Look how nifty our rounded bottom have settled On great seats of Beech and Oaks Running the world while our homes burn I weep as the Algebra steals our hands Our hands from the knife and potatoes Our hands from the first buttons of our blouse, Oh the magnificent shoes we now walk in, How… Continue reading RUNNING THE WORLD WHILE OUR HOMES BURN
THE LAST SONG (by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode)
Villa Love Love, Cannes, Juanes Le Paine, Nice and Super Cannes. Summer of ’82 in the South of France and then on to Athens and those beautiful Greek islands. Fondest memories. Those were the days. The best days of our lives. So young, so free, so vibrant, so happy. We had the world at our… Continue reading THE LAST SONG (by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode)
POLITRICKSTERS
When the unpardonable is pardoned, And the pardoner is unwilling to punish the unpardoned, Then it’s either the pardoner is unreasonable in his pardoning; Or the pardoned has bribed his way into the pardoner’s heart. Arise oh compatriots and look, but ye shall look in vain! When the questionable is not questioned And the questioner… Continue reading POLITRICKSTERS
BLACK CANDLES
Love with so short a memory I see it flicker and die And I shed solid tears As compliment of feelings Like a candle in my study I watch it burn and depreciate With its light, I fight with my pen As silence props me Impotently, I lay in quest Missing lovers to love And… Continue reading BLACK CANDLES
KINDNESS KNOWS NO TRIBE
You waved to me with teary eye But I could not come so fast, Though you still stood by In lack of what I amassed. I could not come so fast; My legs dragged for fear. Challenging factors I had to cast, Else they’d stop me getting here. My legs dragged for fear; What might… Continue reading KINDNESS KNOWS NO TRIBE