OLATUNDE TEMITAYO - POEMS

Olatunde Temitayo is a Nigerian poet, playwright, short story writer and a critic. He is currently the Vice president of Association Of Nigerian Authors, Osun State University branch, Nigeria. He won the award of best writer in 2016 and also in the same year, he was honoured with another award of Writer of the year. His works have been published in different publications.

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                                        LET'S DEPART
 
The truth I have known
Freed me from shackle of love
I've once been a traitor
Who betrayed my reasoning
The time to depart is here
Time to unite might be there
The days are now mocking me
Weeks are whining me
Let I love you be a tale
As I said to you under Odan tree
When the darkness around us whispered
And smiles powdered your face
 
Eyes; deceived by darkness
Blindfolded to see the ugliness in your beauty
Ants are my witness
I thought Sarah you were
Or a reincarnation of Mary
The ants on that tree witnessed the scene
Though in room we met
Magnetting two hot bodies
Discovering the ugliness in your beauty
Trying to open the doors
With my key that has two holders
 
Your men I gave yams in buried months
Cum kolanut that was assassinated by their mouths
With gallons of palm oil in one side
Gazing a tied hopeless goat
My kinsmen' bodies that hugged the ground
All were meant to fufill righteousness
And a betrayal of reasoning
Let's depart now and might unite there
 
Deliver my lines to papa
Whose greediness is of Jacob
Tell him; my yams I need
And the kolas I want
For your doors keys have opened
And many passerbies have passed there
 
Since I can now see the ugliness in your beauty
Let us depart now and might unite in another world
 
 
I hoped to see your doors stained with blood
As my key opened it with harshness
But your door was too wide
That no key could fill
Let's depart now and unite there
In my left hand I have pure handkerchief
And the right one houses an empty matches
All are embryos of the ugliness in your beauty
 
Then; I wondered why the trees withered
As we traded words under Odan's tree
The green on that tree became yellowish
But since love has curtained my reasoning
I did not know; your ugliness withered the tree
Let's depart now and might unite in another world.
 

                               ABIJAH IS IN LOVE
 
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You are the love of my life
The eyeballs I can't live without
I love you like ant loves sugar
You spring happiness in my life
The whole world I think I have
As my eyes eye your eyes
 
Tell me you love me
Tell me I am the alveolar in your mouth
For alveolar, you will do without
Look unto my eyes and say I love you
Don't make me the nails in your fingers
Nail me In your heart
Like the nailing of Messiah in buried centuries
Let your heart be the cross and I, Jesus
Because Abijah is in love
 
Honey tries to be sweeter than you
Salt sees you as its rival in my life
Joy sees you as the road to get to my life
Even the happiness in my life, without you it can't do
For you are a sea that happiness sails to my life
Let my heart magnet yours
Like iron that magnet magnet
Let me be the iron and you, magnet
Because Abijah is in love
 
If mountain I should climb
And Valley should I visit
Even if I have no legs, I shall crawl
Only to declare my love at the peak
If roaring sea should I swim in
Only to declare my love at the bottom
I am ready to take the risk of the roars
Because Abijah is in love
 
My love! The day I met you
My heart became frozen without refrigerator
Was it because of your beauty?
Or your smiles that can defeat Jericho
I mean your smiles is hallelujah that demolish my wall of sadness
You are the hallelujah and my sadness, Jericho
I am dying everyday hoping you have me in your heart
I do not want you in my life
But I need you in my life
Though you are already an estate in my life
But tell me you are happy to be in my heart
You are the estate in my life constructed by love
My love, Abijah is in love
 
Tell me how I can sneak into your life
Tell me how you can love me
Tell me how I can be the beat at the back of your heartbeat
I am ready to wait for thousand years
Even if I have withered before thousand years
I will still be in heaven waiting for an answer
Because Abijah is in love