EDDIE AWUSI - POEMS

Eddie Awusi is a Nigerian writer of Isoko extraction. He graduated from the prestigious Delta state university, Abraka in 2007, where, he got a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literature. He believes in the universality of Arts and global citizenship of the creative and
Imaginative artist.

                                I AM A HURRICANE


I wish I were a star
To beam my radiance
Upon your gloom
And chase away
Your darkness.
I wish I were a sea
To hug your tired soul
And give you succour
Whenever the vehement sun
Has worn your strength away.
I wish I were a tree
Gigantic, vast and shady
Like the mighty banyan tree
Branching into poles of the divide
To shield and shelter you
From the snarls and torments
Of the vicissitudes of life.
But I am a hurricane
Which has brought you much pain
I am such a pisser
Galloping on your emotions.


                         WARMING YOUR POWER


My tongue is full of spears
Biting bitterly bewildered,
Into inundating icicles
Of offaly obfuscated oculus.
Disarm me of my haywire prance:
Scouredly scooping sourly salmon
Fecal fighting foully 
Stomach stench straddling saracens
Quacks quaking quackery.
And let me get lost in your frowns
Warming your power
Beside the hit of a glowering lightning.

              THERE IS NO PERFECT MATCH


You were my dream: which
I always longed, come true;
Yet seem like a faraway land.
We are distantly closeby:
Never seeing each;
Like the eye and the ear:
Of a selfsame head.
When I thought I have held you,
I woke to futility;
Of knowing, you, have slipped away
Like a dream,
Which I have woken from,
And never to hold again.
Why do you keep taunting me:
Pouring scores of gold dust into my palm,
Then, blowing them away 
With sneer in your eyes,
And stormy breeze, in your hands?
When I met you, I thought;
I had found shelter
Under your powerful embrace.
But now, I can face the world better:
Knowing when it comes to loving,
There is no perfect match.