LINES AND VERSES

There comes a time when you have to let a love go so love can find you. As you break hearts, yours unknowingly learns to break. When the wicked define justice, a nation suffers. Fame is what you get when you've lost your privacy. When fate sweeps you off, you don't get to choose your landing. Which is better, to crawl amongst the rich or be a king in the mist of the poor? Hell is when you have to choose between poverty and disease. A man who robs his own is less than a man. A man with a dead conscience is like a bullet, he goes through his mother's heart without knowing it. Your god is as good as your belief. All marriage will work if only couples will quit believing marriage is simply made to work. Marriage is like traveling an unknown path with an unknown company, everything unfold at the same time. -J.Ifeme

Before His Legend      By: J.Ifeme Like a window to a home Is the eye to the soul Open and brightness calls Close and darkness falls… A little boy came to me, and said; “I want to go someplace I can study and be a great man.” I looked at him, the flame of ambition beamed in his eyes. He smiled at me – that sort of smile that reached the ears without showing the teeth. “Ok,” I replied, “go to Florence’s – there you will find every provision you will need to be great.” He stared straight into my eyes, his smile unflinching, and then he vanished. I woke up profusely sweating. The room was pitch-dark. I groped for the switch on the wall and turned on the light. The hands of the wall clock firmly stood under 12:00 am. My sister, Florence, and her husband, Edwin, lay behind the wall. Florence was eight months pregnant. I never mentioned a word about my dream to either her or her husband. When Tira was born weeks later, I found it rather...

If you ever wish you could turn The hand of time and I never showed up Remember this kiss Remember this kiss When the fires of passion dies And romance flies away on cupid wings When my voice croaks My breath stale, my strength frail And these fine muscles go puffy – When my well-toned skin bears hair in Annoying places Remember this kiss Remember this kiss when the charm In my smile is gone Remember this kiss For it comes from deepest of my heart And its memory forever etched in my being Remember this kiss When this mortal body is shed And cold When my eyes no longer hold The beauty of your stare And my fingers no more feel Remember this kiss This one, Miss Yes, this 2010 © j.ifeme

Nothing is barely interesting Birds squabble over nesting Languid moments fade away Emotions rock my defenses I’m sick of mending fences Can’t the head find me a way? I find no answers in the stars I’m done counting distant cars I close the lids to yet another day! 2010© J.Ifeme

Weep great city of the highlands For your serenity again is snatched away Your morning and mourning become one Weep for the souls of the untimely Buried in mass graves – Hacked, slaughtered, butchered in cold blood – This remorseless feud! Weep our once peaceful city of Jos The world is tired of your loss 2010©J.Ifeme

Farida still speaks in my head She is the rat nibbling my will, chewing my ego – Her scent lives in my bed And her memories won’t go I see her in saintly halo – She wades through the fields of my soul Reviving seas of flowers bowed and sallow A trail of our broken dreams to console I trace footsteps vanished in time When beauty and insipid Freely rhyme When we thought we knew cupid Every memory starts a fight – Forlorn wishes I trade at night But Farida… She still speaks in my head “Love is a puzzle, you need not a muscle” That’s what she says to me _J.Ifeme