Life · love

Jealousy

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Jealousy

It’ll kill you you know

Green, invasive,

Who likes green?

You love them, no?

Give them their space

Space to roam free

To look for better?

To look for someone else?

Oh it’s eating you inside

Eating you alive

More powerful than your anger

Your anger

Your anger

Jealousy can be like a disease

It’s unhealthy to be displeased

To make someone you love

Trapped like a pet dove

They are a human being

It is you that is not seeing

What you are doing

And you’ll only push them away

Your love, remember the first day

The day you two met

Held hands, wept

Cuddled close

And what do you know?

It’s not like it was

Because you do not trust

Your untrust becomes lust

You are a couple, give them space

Just a little bit of grace

To your one and only love

Because you don’t want them to have enough

And flee from you and your jealous ways

You might just find yourself amazed

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Current affairs · fantasy · Life · Success · work

Be famous

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Want to be noticed

Crave attention

A better life

Some affection

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Try everything

Everything more

Sell your body

Become a whore

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Exhaust yourself

Self esteem expired

Final moments

It’ll come to the wire

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We’re all poets, writers

Authors, the like

All fighting for fame

To improve our life

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Kill to be famous?

Sell your soul?

Cheat, take or steal?

Ride the black hole?

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Sure, yes you would

You’d do what you can

To be famous, why not?

You gotta be the man

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Life · news

Never mind

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Never mind

It’s not that bad

No need to be sad

Be a little rad

Never mind

Life goes on

You could sing a song

Or just sing along

Never mind

No regrets

Place your bets

Don’t get wet

Never mind

It’s dark in there

You must beware

I hope you don’t scare

Never mind

You didn’t mean it

Not even a little bit

Just in the shit

Never mind

He’ll get up

With a bit of luck

Ok, maybe you’re fucked

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family · Life

Eviction

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It is the day

We’ve been waiting for

Them strangers banging

At the door

I haven’t paid the bills

I’m burdened by debt

The landlord’s had enough

He’s taking back the let

We’ve spent many years

Living here

Raised the kids

We’ve drank many beers

But I’m out of work

Sold everything

I’m in a mess

I’d give anything

Where will we go?

Do they care?

All the neighbours

Stop to stare

Are we vermin?

The scum of the earth

No, we’re just poor

We have no worth

The door slams open

They burst in

The time is now

To be put in the bin

I hold my family

Close to my chest

I can’t breathe

I can’t bear the rest

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Life

Stubborn

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Am I stubborn?

Stubborn am I

I dig my heels in

Like a rake to the eyes

I know my mind

I know what I want

I speak my truth

And it isn’t a front

My principles are there

I will not budge

Think what you like

I don’t give a fudge

My opinion matters

I won’t accept anything else

I am somewhat selfish

And I think of myself

Is it a pitfall?

My characteristic laid bare

It is the way I am

My stubbornness, beware

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happy · Life · love

Dare to defy

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Why do we always want more?

Why does it eat us up?

What difference does it make?

If we want to change our luck

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Do we suffer from greed?

Is it a bad thing?

Is it installed in us?

This constant need to win

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We cannot stay still

Static in daily grind

Parallel continually

Like a boring line

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DARE TO DEFY

Scream and shout

Turn it on its head

Show life what you’re about

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You can be better

Selfish, hell yeah

Grab the bull by the nuts

Make that bugger scared

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Positive, a winner

You are number one

You have all the power

This battle is won!

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happy · Life · love

Love life

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Thinking happy thoughts

Happy and bright

Chilling on a cloud

Feeling light

Sucking up the sunshine

Cruising through the day

Forgetting all my troubles

Kaleidoscope my way

Turning like a spin top

Colours so wonderful

Dizzying numbness

I refuse to fall

Tiptoeing like a dancer

Clothes stripped from me

See me in my glory

This is how to be

Kartwheels effortlessly

Weightless as I am

Majestically turning

Just because I can

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Current affairs · Life

Nigeria’s addiction

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The sweet stuff

Addicting

Just a taste

Euphoria within

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School kids

One try and they’re hooked

These children

Should be reading books

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If you’re in rehab

They chain you to the floor

This is meant to stop you

From wanting to take more

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In the nightclubs

In the streets

Dealers sell it

A strawberry treat

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Cartons flood in

Into the wrong hands

Bad people feeding greed

Selling to the gangs

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Highly addictive

Taken in excess

Euphoric high

Mind in a mess

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Kidney damage, seizures

Psychosis, delusions too

Hallucinations, schizophrenia

It does this to you

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Whether you’re rich or poor

Educated or not

Avoid it, don’t start

Use all the will power you’ve got.

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depression · happy · Life · love

Remember

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Remember

Those that have left

Those that have gone

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Remember

Time passed with

Gifts such as bliss

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Remember

Stories repeated many times

In your head like a rhyme

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Remember

Expressions on their face

Always had their place

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Remember

Arguments and tears

Happiness and fears

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Remember

Feeling safe in their arms

Away from any harm

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Remember

The day that they left

Empty, bereft

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Remember

That person

Never forget

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