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EMMANUEL JOSEPH OLUMAKISS - POEMS

6/1/2019

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Emmanuel Joseph Olumakiss Is a Young African prolific writer,of Nigeria origin whose passion for poetry speaks volume, he is a business mogul  and an award winning poet who has featured in different international anthologies.

​PROS & CONS

​I use to live like a pagan

Though not that I don't know who God is,
I only wanted my peace
Instead of casting and binding my own neighbors any time am on my knees.
Or busy rendering my offerings to enrich the rich.

 I wanted to live like a philosopher,

Not that I don't know God exist,
I only want to do things my way,
Just for the sake of joy and bliss.
I don't mind if I fail or succeed.

There are time I choose to  live like the scientist,Just to have more Knowledge of God,
And prove the world wrong on the things they claim came to exist without origin or a trace.

 I would like to live like the great
inventor,
To create just like God,
And be famous with my work.

Most times I feel happy living 
Like a Muslim who is afraid to
offend his God,
Simply because he lives by the law.

I use to live like an idle man or the street beggar who feel there's no need to work,
only rely on the alms of strangers and friends,
In as much he can eat and survive.

There are some days i allow 
my pride to govern so people
can know my worth
I don't die in silent 
I only vomit my thought

The other time when I decide 
not to be cool,
I only wanted to be hot.

I use to live like the rich,
Who got his eyes on his wealth and care less about lending some of his time to God,
Until tragedy befalls on him,
then he can run back to the Church
so his problem could be solved.

There are period i  live like a hypocrite whose Presence is 
felt in the Church,
He's endowed with speaking in tongues,
He even recite and preach God's word,
he is faultless in his eyes any way,
After all says and done,
then he still go the way of
the world.

Sometimes I think and live like the poor,
who doesn't bother acquiring much wealth,
Could it be his thinking is low,
He's always afraid of risk,
hence he has a little food that can keep his strength.

Often times I live like the parliaments,
who would implement the law,
and decide not to live by it
Because to them obeying the law isn't by force.

I am just like  the philanthropist,
who doesn't receive back what 
he give.
Many ask and receive
He extend his help to the less privilege in the street.

I use to live as if am insane
Even when going my way
I talk only to myself
I hiss and punch the air
busy blaming my past.

Several times I 've lived just
like the common man
who wants a simple life
but restricted by the law of his land.

I wish to be like the Christians
Who were told to exchange
right for wrong
And the good for evil
And give love for hate
Only with their faith 
they can convince their God.

I wish life is fair
My problems I wouldn't 
like to share,
Though life doesn't end up here,
I know not everybody is aware.

Isn't better to live for Christ
If am to know nothing like sin?
How can i be redeemed?
Is there still holiness in me?

​MOTHER
EARTH
OWES
MAN
A TOMB.

​The Earth our hollow host
There's nothing to bank and boast
The Earth our hovering home
We are the apparitions, her ghost
The dust of her dust
The mortal being to her tomb
Companion to her grave
Sojourners of her aid

We are the Earth bearers
The terminal roots
And still births
The first fruits
Born out of her womb
The lunatics and her fluid
We are the miners of her crude
The children of old
Her flesh and blood

We are the Earth rebels
Her friends and foes
Eyes of her god's
The harvest of her heart
We are her breeds and bonds
Her pride and pain

We are the earth and her fullness
thereof

Her laps we dig, plough to survive
Split and buried the remaining of us
Together we are killed by the sound of her bomb
In grave our body swollen and dumped
Indeed mother Earth owes man a tomb
Our leftovers she has to comb
There in the country cemeteries
Innocent souls assembly for
a glorious monument
Before led to a funeral of rest
These are the heroes of our home
Here we were told is our tomb
A land our body is dumped like
a waste
In dust at last we will be laid

This is the nature of man
And the least we can expect of Earth
From Eden to Mosaic
To mortal clergy and imam
Time early men were formed and fixed

Oh yea mortal on a Morris dance!
Coated in Morocco meridian
With a growing militia waiting for mass destruction
Mother Earth owes you a tomb!
The mendicants
Street loafers
The medics
And the philosophers
The athletes
Atheist
Mayor and mayoress 
The chibok kingpins
The mindless minder on melee
The medievals
And Legion of us
Men left left-handed on cage
Leapfrog by our overtaker
The Man that maul man like a miscreant
And made life merchantable

This is Earth our host
There's nothing to bank and boast
This is earth our hovering home
We are her apparitions, her ghost
Mother Earth owes us a tomb
In the presence of this grave we were told.

​WHEN LOVE
FOUND MY HOME

​When love found my home
Holding a branch of rose
I was shocked but behold
It was a day I 've for ever long 
for and hopes

Stranded I have been
It was hard to cope
Looking so unkempt
on a lonely road
Till this very day love
found me home
To bring me series
of smiles & strength
to my bone

Inside of my heart
she repairs all that
they stole
She walks into my
door and handed
me plenty of rose
Luckily the moment
I was busy counting
my woes

She took off my pain
in exchange of her robe
This indeed a love to behold
The room of my soul
she prisoned her heart
so I won't be alone
The charming power
In her sight made me
to be whole

When love find me home
With emotions running
down the thrown of her soul
She parched every part
of my sore
Her warm embrace
she pierced inside of me
To chase away the cold
My pains she trades
took away and sold

In the chamber of my
heart she sits and consoles
A heart that was long dead
she resurrected and
replaced with her own
The ground layer of my
heart she moped from
every strongholds
She carried upon herself
the debt I have owe
The prodigal daughter
that was gone has
returned to her home.

​THE IMPOSSIBLE I WILL DARE

​The impossible I will dare

For the sake of my love

I 've made this clear

The impossible I will tear

For the girl I love so dear

The impossible I will eat like pear

Nothing can move me not even fear

The impossible I will expel

To the land of deer

 Forever it will be there

The impossible I don't want to hear

With you anything impossible 
is possible here.
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