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‘SYMPHONY OF SOULS’ / ‘WHEN MY BREATH NO LONGER WHISPERS’ / ‘REQUIEM FOR RICHES’ | three poems by Olaseni Kehinde Precious

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<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>2 Minute&comma; 45 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Symphony of Souls<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<pre class&equals;"wp-block-verse">My heart&comma; a hallowed sanctuary&comma;&NewLine;Where love's frankincense softly burns&NewLine;A sonnet&comma; melodious and teeming&comma;&NewLine;A famished soul reborn in bliss&NewLine;&NewLine;The solemn breeze whispers your name&comma;&NewLine;The sun smiles&comma; flowers wet in fantasy &NewLine;And as my heart beats&comma; it's a soft&comma; tender caress against yours&comma;&NewLine;A symphony of souls in a timeless&comma; wordless dance&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;In a field blooming with colourful roses&comma;&NewLine;Where the air breathes the aroma of sweet emotions&NewLine;Your resplendent beauty&comma; a radiant sun&comma;&NewLine;Calls the heaven to bear witness to a beautiful prose&NewLine;&NewLine;I have been baptised with the fragrance of your soul&comma;&NewLine;Like wildflowers kissed by dawn's first light&NewLine;As I paint your heart with the imageries of my name&comma;&NewLine;Colours blend&comma; like a passionate sunset's flame&NewLine;&NewLine;Watch my shadows dance behind you&comma; Ademola&comma;&NewLine;Like playful echoes&comma; mimicking your steps&NewLine;When the sky dons its cloak and the wind&comma; a murmuring poet&comma;&NewLine;Watch my arms unfurl like a golden canopy&period;&NewLine;<&sol;pre>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<hr class&equals;"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots">&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">When My Breath No Longer Whispers <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<pre class&equals;"wp-block-verse">I'm but a wraith living in a fleeting dream&comma;&NewLine;A spirit dwelling in an ethereal home&NewLine;Tomorrow&comma; when my breath no longer whispers&NewLine;Do not applaud me with sympathy &NewLine;&NewLine;Here I am&comma; treading a transient path&comma; &NewLine;Catwalking in the footprints of my ancestors&comma; &NewLine;Yet&comma; at dawn&comma; I may disappear into the oblivion&NewLine;Returning home in the clutches of sleep&NewLine;&NewLine;Do not label me a child when I've lived in a century of adventure&comma;&NewLine;Reincarnating to savour memories in a kaleidoscope of hues&NewLine;I once languished in the shadows of obscurity&comma;&NewLine;Until I glimpsed death&comma; adorned in its most chilling costume&NewLine;&NewLine;Tomorrow&comma; I may vanish like the morning mist&comma;&NewLine;Which gracefully dissipates beneath the caress of sun's smile&NewLine;So&comma; when I find my room beneath the earth’s embrace&NewLine;Do not afflict your eyes with desolate tears&NewLine;&NewLine;Instead&comma; let the fragrance of love permeate the air&comma;&NewLine;While we linger&comma; weaving our fleeting moments into the tapestry of time&NewLine;For tomorrow&comma; when my breath no longer whispers&period;&NewLine;<&sol;pre>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<hr class&equals;"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots">&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Requiem for Riches <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<pre class&equals;"wp-block-verse">Money is a delicacy&comma; a satiable craving&comma;&NewLine;A cube of sugar amidst teeming ants&comma; &NewLine;nibbled relentlessly&comma;&NewLine;Until the cube stands bare like a tasteless sweet&NewLine;&NewLine;Money is an exquisite gallery&comma; &NewLine;Decorated with alluring images&comma; &NewLine;Each art is a masterpiece&comma; a cradled pearl &NewLine;Until its beauty is gently woven into antiquity&NewLine;&NewLine;Here&comma; a poor man is a barren wasteland&comma; &NewLine;A radiant visage marred by the harsh hand of fate&NewLine;His path is kissed by the benedictions of vengeful gods &NewLine;And blessings&comma; woven with graceful thorns&NewLine;&NewLine;But a rich man&comma; like a crowned monarch&comma;&NewLine; Gleams with the resplendence of a thousand suns&comma;&NewLine; And his fortune cascading like a waterfall of gold&NewLine;Enchanting all who bask in its radiant glow&NewLine;&NewLine;Money&comma; a fleeting mirage&comma; a shimmering illusion &NewLine;Dances happily like a wisp of smoke&comma;&NewLine;Yet wealth&comma; a benevolent angel&comma; &NewLine;Humbles like a timeless cloak&NewLine;&NewLine;Do not run after money like a fool chases the wind&comma; &NewLine;While his breath labours and his strength wanes&comma; &NewLine;Then returns home with a bundle of emptiness&comma; &NewLine;Like a traveller who carries shadows in a bottomless sack&NewLine;<&sol;pre>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<hr class&equals;"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity">&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-right has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-0a63ec814f9127b6379142d033238823" style&equals;"background-color&colon;&num;f1f1f8">Olaseni Kehinde Precious embodies the multifaceted roles of a poet&comma; content writer&comma; blockchain researcher&comma; and SEO specialist&period; When not diligently optimising web pages for search engine rankings&comma; Precious can be immersed in creating captivating content or crafting a literary masterpiece&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; &NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-block booster-author-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-details layout-square align-left">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-wrapper">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-row">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-column booster-column-two 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