I HAVE DREAMS TOO-Yahaya Habeeb Kayode Jaypee_D_Poet

 You ask me to dance to your song
You ask me to speak the language of your tongue
You ask me to work for you yet you won’t pay me a dime
You ask me to pick limes for you from the tree of thorns
You instruct me to write you song of rhymes with the ink of my blood
Yet no gain but pain for the times I’ve spent in your world

You insist that I desist from pursuing my goals
All you want is quick increase in your wealth at the cost of many souls
Your wish is to make me a slave forever while you be the king
And when you become bored for hours I’ll have to dance and sing
And bring you things like grapes, berries or tangerine
I ask you why?
Why do want me to work for you till I die?
All for your sake, I’ve swam across thousand lakes
I’ve made my life unbearable to put comfort on your table
You want me do ten thousand things together when you know I’m exhaustedly feeble
I know you are the core
I know I might be poor
Just a little appreciation you won’t show
I want you to Know that I have dreams too
So let my dreams grow
You want me to be your chair
So that you can sit upon me as I cry in despair
You want me to be your useful slave
So that every day of my life I would be in dismay
And while you get clothed in your customized exotic dress
Old clean rags beautify me in distress
As you dine and wine
Looking healthy and fine
My eyeballs become swollen just because your juice is my tears
Your cinema, my fears
Making me sad everyday and night has become one of your daily affairs
Just a little appreciation you won’t show
I want you to Know that I have dreams too
So let my dreams grow
While I work every seconds without taking a break
Just to bake a cake for your sake
You never appreciate it
Yet my salary keeps depreciating
During the cold night, I couldn’t close my eyes
Working for you, hurting my precious life
While you keep snoring loudly on your water bed
I remember what you said
“You must finish those countless works”
Those words keep ringing in my dizzy head
You have always been despicable
Just a little mistake you would smash my head on the table
Why do you deprive me of my freedom?
Why do you chain me like a slave in your viscous kingdom?
I also wish to reach the peak of legendary
And not to slave around all day long till I land in the cemetery
Just a little appreciation you won’t show
I just want you to know that I have dreams too
So let my dreams grow

©2016 YHK-JP

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TO MY DEAR LADY SANSA- David O. Olusanya

I must either have you or nothing,

my dear lady Sansa.

The moon be mild and the sun smiling,

but life without you will be a cancer.

This is one of my delicious letters

to a lady I'll always woo.

And though I strive in slums and gutters,

her love shall purge me through and through.

The truth be told to you my dear,

life is more than a priest can see.

'Cause a time without you here,

is like a snow-flake lost at sea.

I may have no wealth or fame

or a title to grace my head.

I may bear just a common name;

to be called your lover is best instead.

What is life and a purse of gold

if I'm starved of your love, my queen?

I'd rather be a slave and have me sold,

'cause life without you is a greater sin.

I must either have you or nothing,

my darling lady Sansa.

The moon be mild and the sun smiling,

but life without you is worse than cancer.

To my Sweet Angel, Never Saying Aye (SANSA)

David O. Olusanya

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