Just Talk

Just Talk

Before the beginning was chaos,

Before the bang was serenity,

At the center of a storm is peace,

In cacophony lies all three, the building block of reason.

If life is not an accident,

Is death then for a reason?

In between both, immortality,

In eternity lies all three, the foundation of faith.

The quest to lead a people,

The drive to rule a nation,

The submission of the subjects,

In silent war lies all three, the foundation of slavery.

Picket fences as beautiful prisons,

Expensive holidays with happy workouts,

Like surrogates deceiving the parents,

In illusion lies all three, the bedrock of the new age.

The rivers of red, source at the top

The stench of the slain,

The drums fueling the orbit of mars,

In battle lies all three, war begins long before the first shot.

So why do we dread  the unknown?

Why the scarcity of brazen men?

And the Kings walking on foot?

In fear lies all three, the limiter of great causes.

Now, Its all a virtual reality in the third dimension,

An esoteric game of chess on intergalactic boards.

The C4 to off us embedded right from the start,

So what's more to fear than fear itself?

Its on record that we all have to go!

So why cling on like its all that matters?

Unsheath your sword and cut off the ear!

With your back to the wall earn your place in the cosmos!

Out of Eden we already are so why hold back?

Paradise won't creep in it, would be herald!

Hope is not a strategy not in this warfare!

Well, this is just talk from this traveler,

When we get to Orion guess we'll all know better.

So take care lest you get bounced back to earth by the gate keeper,

Unless of course you have Archangel Camuel on speed dial!

Yomi lawal

29th Oct, 2011

Kaboom - Written in solidarity with the Syrian people

Kaboom

(Written in solidarity with the Syrian people)

A king and his people,

The leader and his subjects.

Reason is like music,

The melody can intoxicate!

Let the dancer beware,

The party is only for awhile.

The court and the fool,

The parliament and advocates,

Greed is like success,

The euphoria is addictive!

Let the user be wary,

The stash fizzles out in an instant.

The cricket and its noise,

Silence reigns after its death,

The black widow and her love,

Ask the lover when you get to orion!

Listen to the multitude,

The few will lead you astray!

Now to big bang theory,

Terror is a tool,

Loud noise is meant to scare.

When death comes swiftly,

It comes in absolute silence!

To hear the boom is to be alive.

Governance from the lair,

Stupidity from the air!

The spinal cord of the paralyzed,

A great disconnect, emotion still in connect!

As a farmer is intimate with his yam,

The King must get his hands dirty!

History is a string of events,

Judgment a simple turn of events!

Killing children and women in a war,

The password to Hades for the soldier.

Be wise great Bashar,

Mahmoud and Saddam trod this same path!

Of politicians and battles,

Personal glory and gambling.

Tough talking in safety, sending men to horrors.

Remember the battle of Omaha,

A beach is not always a nice place!

Paris wasn't always a holiday destination!

To the him's that groomed Hitler,

Now the you's grooming his children.

A government that fears not the people,

Is a tyranny that will destroy a race.

Kaboom starts long before the war,

Right from when the Prince totters!

-yomilawal

25th Feb, 2012

Timely death

Timely Death

Started Feb 13, 2012

So we all gotta go sometime huh?

Then why do we spend so much time trying not die?!

Why not fast forward things and go discover what's on the

other side?

Come on guyz, let's have a timely death!

Ok, I understand, you aint ready right?

Come to think of it, are we ever really ready for stuffs?!

Man up!, take the bull by the horns for the thrill and the glory!

Hey men! Let's go check whatz across the line!

Did I hear "you first"?

Come off it! Why not you too first?

Ok, let's make it ladies first then, at least they are sure of a return pass!

Be a pioneer!, one small step for man, one flying leap for mankind!

Sky diving and bungee jumping,

Let's try it without the chutes and ropes!

Thrill seekers and sick thrillers, hehehe, same adrenaline different sources.

Its all like a movie guyz, just that its one final cut!

If we could take death excursions with 50% return chance would you go?

Don't be a chicken!, let's try 100% then?

Gotcha! Whatz the fun in routine living then?!

Throw away the chips and let the real games begin!

Strip poker or Russian Roulette, game of sex or the game of death?

Look, they are all based on time and skills!

So I invite you guyz, I'm going to have a timely death!

After all, the worse thing is having an untimely one! Hehehehe

- yomilawal

Finished Feb 21, 2012

Road to hell

Road to hell

Paved with love and guided with history,

Advertized as pleasure and shown a necessity,

Such is the road to hell,  beautiful in presentation

A terrible bumpy ride that has zero survival rate.

A wicked creation with the first ending in disaster,

To satisfy urges the lie was born to keep order,

This is the highway to death, divine in appearance

A man eating contraption that finishes all adventurers.

Love is such a terrible reason for taking decisions,

No matter how swooned a lion is, a lamb remains a tasty meal,

That is the reality of lies, deceptive in intentions

The life of one should not be in that of another!

Bring out the books and let witnesses bear testimony

Till death do us part when you know all it takes is an argument,

Thus the generational myth was born, sustained by silence

I thought it was said all liars would go to hell!

Please tell me, why live imprisoned and bask in euphoria?

Isn't self deception the gravest of all offences?

Who gains from a union of sworn enemies?

The war mongers or the perprtuating voices?

To be me is not easy, to be understood so daunting,

An out may not be a door,  the window sometimes a better escape

Who jumps from high rise building without a chute?

Those who need to live and have to leave.

Stop lying to me please, hell is a duet not a solo!

- yomi lawal

sept 7, 2014

Freedom!

Freedom

In the absence of shackles and presence of food,

In the comfort of same skin and a common language,

The illusion of freedom is sold to the modern slaves.

Hidden in the paycheck and written laws,

The charade with generations continue.

Autocracy and democracy they call it,

Communism and theocracy they name it,

Padded with free trades and unified currency,

The global village and human rights,

Fathers unwittingly sell their lineage into bondage.

Of politicians and their lies, spinning webs of half truths laced with piety,

The constitution and humanity, nothing but tools in their arsenal.

Their offsprings safe in their lair,

In the name of national security and peace,

They send the deceived children happily into harms way.

If the good men do nothing, evil becomes self sustaining!

Crime is relative but justice is absolute!

Playing animal farm and relaying old majors dream,

In a farm of 150million animals, two thousand lazy pigs eating 50% of the food!

Without blood there is no remission nor atonement!

"We hold this truth to be self evident, that all men are created equal!

That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

This is no animal farm, I will pursue my happiness or pursue those who impede it!!! 

I will be free because I am born free!

I will be free because it is the just thing!!

I will be free because I refuse to be enslaved!!!

The rebels of today are the founding fathers of tomorrows nation!

Arise and stop this pillage!!!, freedom is by right, revolution the means!!!

-yomi lawal

8th June, 2011

Imagine!

Imagine!

Imagine we all didn't happen
Never getting this common denominator
And scattered around never without a crossed path

Imagine no Principal
No Adedeji to keep us in line
No Odusina to keep us on our toes
No Ewumi to let us know it'll all be alright
Imagine us without those tough rules
Imagine us living carefree
Living high school life high on drugs

Imagine there were no crazy seniors
No Aloma, Okusaga nor Maam Tete to punish us hard
Imagine we living with no elder respect
Imagine us living Levi-free
And no such thing as offenders list

Imagine we had no Oye Otubanjo
Just a team without a captain
Just like an army with no commandant
Just like a tribe without a king 
Just like a man without face

Imagine no biology lectures
from the ever kind gboyega's mum
Doctors Odusoga, Allinson, Sanni & Adeniji only able to imagine anatomy
From a lame man's point of view
Or better still from a butcher's shop
Imagine no PhyChemMath
Oladiran and Lawal only imagining engineering from a carpenter's view
Imagine them not turning out as barristers
Bajo still hustling the white van 
Dare pimping the Ojuelegba streets
Being thrown in gaol for living thug life

Imagine no sports field
No AIONIAN nor inter-house sports
No 'Jomale like Usain Bolt
And Muyi running with no goal
No Foluso with a dozen goals
Folarin and Mamora kicking horns in place of tennis
Right in the village square

Imagine no fab cliques
No Hardliners no Malady Boyz
Imagine us with no envy
From all the schools all around
Imagine no OLASS and AGGS
Giving us love cause of our green & white
With all dem girls vying and trying
To roll Willoughby's style

Imagine school without ambition and dreams
Imagine Olamide not having flown in air Not flown the world over in a frenchman's plane
And not dwell his home in the city of lights 
Imagine no Trade Engineers
And King Buddy in a dead end job
Imagine homeboy Tosh struggling
Trying to live bye a dollar a day job
No FirstRand just another nigga hustling

Imagine us all not come this far
Imagine us all living like scallywags
Like street urchins with no damn hope
Pushing shitty trucks at Ita-Osu for survival

It takes no imagination
To know we were truly blessed with JOGS!

-Jango
Started 23:54GMT 22nd Dec 2012
Finished 02:15GMT 23rd Dec 2012
Inspired by and dedicated to the group and school I spent 6 years of my life with

Jango can be reached via yemioduwole@yahoo.co.uk 

My Love

My love

Men only live twice, with each life a choice before them.
The cross road of love and that of reasoning smack in the face.
If we could see the future many a lot will wait,
Yet we see the future and I didn't wait.
For If I waited how would we meet; without an error there is no correction,
Without a ying what then is the yang, and without either where is life?

Cut loose and run, that's the answer on many a lips,
But know them what has been shared and how many bricks layered?
Rome wasn't built in day and a fortress won't fall in an hour!
I love you, empty words without substance; I love, you, even angels concur.
This heart is in agony, for its life has been wrenched and this man lorn,
Where is Juliet, hurry before Romeo crosses to Orion!

Fiery, love lives way long beyond a kiss,
Two hearts entwined bound by cords stronger than silk.
There is no one but you, I am no one without you.
Live I a long life unknown or a short one more famous than Achilles?
My dear Jane, look not unto terra cota to replicate this journey,
Gaze unto Venus and the eagle nebula the fountain of us.

All being said and done, where does a life gets its soul and a man his spirit?
From whence should oriyomi start the journey of many eons?
If the gods ask of me my life, I couldn't give it for to Aurora it belongs,
Know now not Helen, that I will burn Troy just for you?!
But they say reason must prevail.......,
I go forth then into the land of no reason for without you I just can't live.

- With all my life
Yomi lawal 11th Jan, 2013 2:15am

Love Unconditional by Jango

I woke up to something beautiful today and it was a masterpiece by my long time friend whom we affectionately call Jango; we have variations of that name that spreads to infinity like Jangoking, Jangoweb, etc, all variations borne out of our daily discussions on various issues.
It was with happiness that we received the news that he would be coming home to naija by next week, time to see, jawjaw and if possible punch him in the stomach (he beat me up when we were in Junior secondary school, hehehe, Jangofight!), apart from being an astute entrepreneur (Jangobiz) and a SAP guru he has another passion reading and writing (Jangowrite!), enjoy this piece from one of the soundest minds I have ever met.

LOVE UNCONDITIONAL

I first heard about you in my toddler years
All around me wouldn't stop to talk about you
Your beauty, your warmth, your fabulousity and how interesting you are
These were the words they describe you with
I did think it was all exaggeration
I thought you could be as beautiful as they proclaimed
But I did long to meet you and find out for myself
To see what is extraordinary about you
To see what makes you different from others

14 whole years I waited
Yes it took 14 year to finally find you
To meet you for the very first time
I waited 14 years to see what you looked like

I heard a lot about you
Thought a lot about you
But didn't say much about you
And then the day came
The day I finally found you
Nothing could have prepared me
All those things they said about you
All those beautiful comments about you
They were not right 
They said you were beautiful, they lied
Because you were more than beautiful
They said you were warm, they lied
Because you were more than warm
They said you were fabulous, they lied
Because you were more than fabulous
They said you were interesting, they lied
Because you 'interesting' underestimates you

When I eventually set my eyes on you
I stood still in awe
Amazed, speechless and dazed by your beauty
It was love at first sight
You were too good to true
You were like heaven
You were more than wonderful
You were so incredible
I wanted to explore you
I wanted to devour you
I wanted to the discover the sweetness you possess
I wanted to be lost in your embrace
I wanted to run my hands all over you

23 years have gone bye
And I still love you
I love you like the first time
Wrong, I take that back
I love you more than even the first time

I know I haven't been there to see you a lot of times
Especially in the last 10 years
But there's no time I don't think of you
I miss you all the time

I know of your pains
I know of your sleeplessness at all nights
I know of your abuse by many
I know many have raped you times over
Some openly wee on you while some shit on you
Some literarilly gather the dirts from their homes and throw it at you
I know many have been ungrateful to you
But you still accommodate them in your big heart
But never will I forsake you
Never will I mock you like they always do
Never will I speak ill of you like they do

I have been through many, very many
But no other compares to you
None other give me that nostalgic feeling
No other gets my love  like you do
And I'll always love you too
You'll always be my numero uno

As I packed my baggage tonight to come see you
My heart beat faster for the joy of seeing you again
My heart longs to feel your magic
Your breath of fresh air
Knowing that you will embrace like you always do though I've been away for so long from you
That you won't shut your doors on me
That you will love me like the first time
And like each of those subsequent times you loved me
My love for you will never end
See you in the morning, dear Lagos
My city of aquatic splendour. 

 - OpeyemiOduwole
  Started 11:25pm 11 Sept 2012
  Finished 01:19am 12 sept 2012
  Inflight Virgin Atlantic flight VS651 from London to Lagos

For Nigeria

Call to duty!

To sit on the fence and feign ignorance,

To look at the cup and judge an ocean,

To bask under the lamp, pretending its the sun,

All don't change the fact that a burning house is inhabitable!

In search of land the queen came armed with guns and gospel.

Thus a babeldom was forced to live as one!

Each keeping her dagger each her swords,

A treaty is no glue, amalgamation not binding beyond the paper!

Set in 60 and decided in 63,

Born a freedom and wealth a people,

Ground nut fueled the vision and power the mission.

Until the gold came and destroyed the black nation!

Invasive as cancer the gnats took root,

Sucking and gorging, the festering began.

The fathers wasted, breeding imbeciles,

Forbidden

Forbidden

For you Ella, not for me nor you!

To say it, is sacrilegious enough, so what do I do?

Say it yet I will, discern when I do; you have!

In a twinkle is reflection, in this instant; just pure bliss!

Touch me not, for it could be one too many!

Desire, good but this time dangerous!

Like the dance of the birds, waving and purring!

When the thought of you dominates,

And hearing you speak makes me ruminate,

Lagos State absurd traffic laws

Letter To the Emperor

Freedom is rarely ever taken away suddenly especially during peace times; they are gradually stripped a right at a time.
A ruler rarely becomes a tyrant immediately he gets on the throne; tyranny creeps in, one act at a time.
The law is not always right because it has no fixed standard; it is dependent on the knowledge available at that time.
So my dear Emperor, to enact and feel righteous is a risky endeavor that usually ends on the wrong side of history.

When eating whilst on my beast becomes a crime; and drinking a punishable offence, what thence is thy aim my king?
For from a tuber you demanded a fifth and I thus did give. From my chicken you asked for a tenth, yet I still gave!    

I shall be sharing my poems here on this blog, i will also be sharing my views on a wide variety of subjects; nothing is out of bound for me and nothing is sacred for me. If I had a say in what my name was to be after i was born, I would have chosen "Adventure"; ask my friends (my enemies too) they know me (to an extent)

Talking about my friends, I will be mentioning them by their nicknames, to get to know them in person then you will have to join us when we hit town! hehehe.

Find below the first poem I will be sharing on this blog; My poems reveal a side of me some people might call 'crazy' but I can assure you that i try to stay sane in whichever reality I find myself.

Enjoy this (i hope you so)

The maze and the labyrinth

Writing and thinking, two similar task yet very different.

One without the other and you end up with rubbish.

The truth we need to hear and that which we need to tell,

Few can handle both, most will crucify me.

Infidelity is way different from promiscuity

One sustains marriage the other as dangerous as HIV,

Its an art as old as time itself, a vice enjoyed in secrecy

I know you hear differently, that’s because you ask different people.

Love and sex, work and play, who wants work when you can play?

The thrill is in the chase, also in breasting the tape!

To kiss and tell, a bad habit; you don't have to tell, we all know!

Now, who wants to love when you can have sex?!

Of she and her, different needs fulfilled, don't be told otherwise!

I swear I love her, and her and her too!

For better for worse, why wait till death do you part?!

The only constant thing in life is change, you wonder why they flock round me?!

Back to the labyrinth and the maze,

There is no difference if you're savvy,

Waiting for the last line?......

-yomi lawal

Started Jan 16th 2011

Finished Feb 19th 2011