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Flying In Sync

7 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments emily2u

The break of dawn Heralds a new beginning, For you, for me, for us Sealed by the birds chirping. Leave the past behind Where they rightly belong, Lessons have been learned To the future don't bring along. Far into the horizon we fly Struggle through...

Depression.

7 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Olawalium

When people ask me what depression really isMost times I am dumbfoundedBecause depression doesn't have a particular description to itself Sometimes depression is sadness, weariness and confusionYou just feel out of place - so inferior and unwanted...

His Hazel Eyes - A Lady in Love.

6 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Words alone can't describe how you make me feelYour voice alone hypnotizes meMy hazel-eyed sweetheart Hey prince charming What have you done to me? I feel afloat when I am with you My hazel-eyed sweetheart Your gaze makes me travel to the land of p...

Eighteen.

6 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Eighteen - depressed and confusedOn how to do and start it allThe step ahead is steepHow do I climb, stay and move on?These thoughts live rent-free in my head The scares from friendsTheir stories and experiencesMake me feel a little less confidentW...

Mental Block

6 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments emily2u

My mind is blank, I can't think What I want to say, I don't know, My heart is cold, I can't feel I want to write, but ink doesn't flow. I have been struck hard Why, oh, why, is it like this? Did it happen now? Is there something amiss? Anyone who has...

She Wandered.

5 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

I wandered lonely like a white cloud amidst the deep blue skyFloating from one side to the other, affecting the colour When my sorrow comes like thisShe loves the withered treeThe dark moonless nightsShe loves the cold and baremorning fog before th...

Who Am I?

5 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments emily2u

I can't even remember Who I was to begin with, As the days pass to be months And years, even decades. Who am I, I wonder What makes me, me? The very essence has been stripped Layer by layer over time. Who was I? Am I? Who will I be? Shaped by circums...

Mother Africa.

5 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Today, I walk the paths my fathers used to walk with prideWith tears in my eyes and heaviness in my heartThe thoughts that they turn in their gravesTears my heart into pieces Today, I think of the strongand courageous onesThe ancient warlords and r...

Forging On...

4 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Olawalium

Even as kids, when we were growingPrayers were given order of importanceBefore praying for the country to get betterWe pray for our escape from the countryNews about going to a foreign countryHave always been good newsNo matter what the country isI...

Homeward Bound

4 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments emily2u

I’m on a train ride,Going to take eight hours.Here with my best friend,Returning to the town of ours.Chugging along slowly,In here, can’t rest much.There’s refreshing scenery,Lots of trees, green and lush.Grey outlines of mountains,Clear our minds of...