Dreamer boy!

Everything my heart conceives
My hands shall receive
You can call me dreamer boy
Dreamer’s toy dream along
Dream so long dreams of joy

But this dreamer boy will become
This dreamer’s story has begun
This dreamer boy now belongs
To the tribe that never fades
In this world and in the next.

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I still write,
I still sing,
I still dance,
I still dream.

I still walk upon the moon,
I’m still that big headed fool.

Maybe not with you,
maybe not for you,
maybe all for you,
maybe it’s to escape you.

But I won’t stop because
you stopped going with me.

TO THE WOMAN OF MY DREAMS

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Soldiers ants
Don’t carry guns
But you will wish
You were shot
When stung by one

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My father was rich
My father was poor
My father didn’t bleach
But then he looked blur

My father had one wife
My father had two more
Even though he had one life
A second son was just too much

My father lived long
Even longer than his first wife
My father wouldn’t burn
Not even for his last wife

My father Afolarin
Man with so many mistakes
My father Abolaji
Man bought out of mistakes

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It is not your fault
If I were a lawyer or a banker
It is not your fault
If I had paid your dowry with my sweats

It is not your fault
If I hadn’t looked confused
It is not your fault
If I hadn’t spoken softly

It is not your fault
Who says the rain won’t stop
It is not your fault
Who says the lame won’t walk again

It is not your fault
If I had waited a little longer
It is not your fault
It is my fault I believed quicker

It is my fault
I take the blame for us
Every time there is a reason to pause
Every time I see it is not your fault

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Back and forth
From side to side
Giving thanks for all it’s worth
Is rendering your heart to the most high

It’s not found in the abundance of plenty
But in the assurance that all you are
With a humble self, holy or filthy
Has a place in God’s immeasurable loving heart

(after a brief illness)
28/10/12 09:35AM

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Peace is not money
Money is not peace
Do not be deceived
Money can not buy peace

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On this Faith
Lies my weakest
Strength

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Sometimes its Us.

Not him, not her, not them,
Not witches, not riches,
Not poverty, not the government,
Not your background, not diseases,
Not prayers, not nemesis, not fasting,
Not love, not the devil's problem,
Not your enemies, not Jesus,
Not addiction, not loneliness,
Not US of A, not the Chinese,
Not black, not white or colored,
Not famine, not war, not their fault,
Not your ex, not your lover...

Some times, it's just Us!

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You don't have to understand now
Such a pity the day it rains
And you are out alone

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