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    Land of Promise

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      Image Design: Saint Ket Publishers

      ©2016 Kum Eric Tso

      Published by Saint Ket Publishers

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      ©2016 Kum Eric Tso

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      SAINT KET PUBLISHERS

      DOUALA, CAMEROON

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      DEDICATION

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      LAND OF PROMISE

      FOUNDATION STONES FOR CHANGE

      PERFECT POLITICIANS

      NAKED WRITER

      ELEVEN FEBRUARY

      AFRICA

      AFRICAN SUN

      ALL NIGHT LONG

      MY PRECIOUS QUEEN

      SOLAR FORCE

      LOVELY MOTHER

      WHY DID YOU SAY GOODBYE?

      IN LOVE

      AFRICAN WOMAN

      AFRICA MASSACRE

      TRIBALISM

      LET’S UNITE

      ROSE

      LONG TIME NO SEE

      VOICE OF THE VOICELESS

      CHANTAL BIYA

      CAMEROON

      THE POET

      L’ANGE DE COMBAT

      POETRY

      LOVING OUR COUNTRY

      MYRTLE

      VOW TO MY HOMELAND

      TAKE ME TO THE FERRY

      STRANGE LOVE

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      THE HOLY HAND

      ROSYBELLE

      HELLO

      LOVE IS WICKED

      LOVE CONQUERS ALL

      THE MOURNING ANCESTORS

      FOOTBALL DANCE

      RELIGIOUS SAFARI

      DEATHLY CLAWS

      CHRIST IN MY LIFE

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      CONNECT WITH THE BORN TO REIGN GROUP

      DEDICATION

      To

      Kum Victorine Naseh

      &

      Kum Justina Eghem.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      This work would not have been possible without the help of the many people God has been bringing into my life. I may not be able to exhaust this list, but I want to specifically thank the following group of people.

      I’m grateful to my family, especially my beloved brothers and lovely sisters for being there for me through the early but daring moments of my career.

      I also thank God for raising me from a genealogy of spiritual giants and for inspiring me through the many leaders who have lit the path and set the pace for young talents like me to emerge.

      I’m equally grateful to my friends, partners, staff and all those who spend an ounce of their time and money throughout the world to promote or participate in everything I stand for.

      Finally, thank you for purchasing this book and joining millions across the world who think we can make this world a better place for all. I’m thankful to all my readers for their constructive criticism especially through social media. I’m always very excited to hear from you anytime any day.

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      LAND OF PROMISE

      FOUNDATION STONES FOR CHANGE

      Like a saint, I did purge

      My imagination from God

      As my heart and mind did urge

      My fingers to write on the mud

      For all to hear and glare

      At what my eyes did spy

      When my thoughts got the flare

      Of that heart-piercing cry,

      From my people, for my people;

      I did find the hands of pain

      Breaking every soul into a bleeding cripple

      And my nation’s snow face was all stained,

      And there was need for change:

      It was the gravity of that rash

      Spreading like wild fire in a wide range

      And never did I feel any crash

      From the coffins of dark democracy

      Since God was on my people’s side.

      I saw the sprinkles of democracy

      Bathing our land, new and pure for all to glide.

      And behold, the foundation stones

      For change were plunged deep and tight

      And stiff and strong were my bones

      To endure the plight of this fight.

      Before my prologue was through

      God did touch my heart again

      And indeed I felt the breakthrough

      Foundation stones falling like heavenly grain...

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      PERFECT POLITICIANS

      They look like saints

      Patriotic faces

      At all phases

      Always looking innocent

      But when elections come

      They rig

      They kill

      They steal

      They loot

      They rape

      Our country’s progress

      They look like worker ants

      Of success

      In the press

      Always looking triumphant

      But when elections come

      They rig

      They kill

      They steal

      They loot

      They rape

      Our country’s progress.

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      NAKED WRITER

      After a weighty-healthy meal,

      He trots through the streets

      Counting the ribs of hungry men;

      He covers his nostrils with cotton

      Upon entering the rotten corners

      Where the poor gamble with stench;

      He spits on shaggy-tattered beggars

      Or wounded men leaping through the market;

      He covers his ears with new banknotes

      Upon hearing crying voices across the road.

      At night, he dines with the uniform men

      Gasping the fresh scent

      Of imported perfume.

      He sings lovely carols and writes of lilies and roses.

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      ELEVEN FEBRUARY

      Do you see those hungry faces

      With cracked lips and swollen eyes

      Marching in staggering paces?

      The fresh air of the sky dies

      As their feet wrestle with the dust fleet

      In the tchaka dance for their home land;

      Their tearful eyes wish to split

      As they chant at their sleeping-land

      To arise and behold its course

      Of change for the youths to dwell

      In true peace and glide at the rose

      Where all shall be well.

      Do you see those huge men resenting their breath?

      They have lost their sense of truth.

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      AFRICA

      I think only of thee

      When the shadows come

      For thy aroma of stew to stare;

      When the moon mourns

      For thy drums to feast;

      When the heavens hum

      For thy rains to roll;

      When the winds wail

      For thy wings to wave

      At the snoring sea;

      When the time tolls

      For thy cocks to crow;

      And when the sun shines

      For thy ever fresh fields to feast.

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      AFRICAN SUN

      You stand there,

      All alone-there

      Bleak and weak

      As your bones break

      In fading praises

    />   From dying voices

      All in the name

      Of foreign fame.

      They now savour

      Foreign flavour

      Instead of delicious, tasty

      ‘Fufu corn and Kati Kati’.

      Who lulled you to sleep?

      You must wake by my weep!

      O African sun,

      Arise from that dark horizon.

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      ALL NIGHT LONG

      Behold, the lord appeared by her bedside

      With glowing light and asked:

      “Why do you sob

      All night long

      Trampling your pillow

      In a sea

      Of uncontrollable tears?”

      The weary-hearted African woman

      Answered and said:

      “I sob for I’ve sinned,

      I’ve insulted thy image

      (Thy magnificent image)

      By changing my colour

      From black to red.

      “O lord forgive me

      All my sins

      For they surpass the limit.

      They are a needle

      Piercing thy heart.”

      The lord’s voice echoed from a roar

      In the mist of a cloud in the sky:

      “Forgiven is he

      Who confesses his sins

      With the tongue,

      Blessed is he

      Who goes and sins no more.”

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      MY PRECIOUS QUEEN

      You stand there – high

      Like a king in the sky

      For thy garment suits thee so well

      And for all times, “ton nom est belle”.

      You give energy to wheat

      And serve the world with heat

      For thy elegance suits thee so well

      And for all times “tu es belle”.

      You drive scientist crazy

      And your warmth is so friendzy

      For thy smile suits thee so well

      And for all times “la vie est belle”.

      I wish to meet thee up thy bed

      But make sure I’m not death.

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      SOLAR FORCE

      The back bone of African evolution

      Lies in the solar force:

      A weight that can pull down countless patriots

      They call it the president,

      Commander in chief of the armed forces,

      A gun man,

      The sole executive curator,

      Chief of chiefs,

      Secretary General of unknown affairs,

      And even financial overall of state funerals.

      Such a fatal force owned by gods

      And only gods alone.

      A force that sets cars galloping on a smooth road

      Now entrusted onto one person. What a strong drink?

      He now carries such a heavy load alone in groan

      With no shame nor regret, but greed.

      How great he is!

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      LOVELY MOTHER

      Your scent, touch, words and way

      Made you a true mother

      For you lived for your children.

      When I was young, your warmth

      Made me a chick in his nest:

      You petted but corrected me when I went wrong.

      I shed a tear and my heart shears

      Any time I remember your gentle smile:

      A smile that moved miles;

      Your love shoved me into joy

      Like a sinner from hell to heaven:

      I could dwell and swell when you were there.

      While others let theirs grow wild,

      You moulded me up into a perfect gentleman;

      A huge pang of flesh was cut-off from my body

      On the day the cold hands of death strangled you.

      O sweet mother! I love you more… and more

      For you taught me true love.

      I called you Naseh as you called me Tso

      For mama and son were too formal

      For such a loving pair.

      May your gentle soul rest

      In perfect peace

      Though our love’ll never rest.

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      WHY DID YOU SAY GOODBYE?

      Never did I have

      A say

      When you waved

      Goodbye to our stay

      (Saying it was over)

      Never did you know

      How much we’d rovered

      In the snow

      Like our son’s bear

      (Swimming in honey)

      Never did we spare

      Lavishing money

      Dancing makossa

      (Sharing smacks of love)

      But why did you say goodbye Massa

      Without thinking of our love?

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      IN LOVE

      We navigated on the sea of love

      Like unscrupulous pirates:

      Eye-in-eye, mouth-to-mouth

      We were

      In the little boat

      With a moonlight candle.

      Then, God saw it all illegal

      For we were in the dark

      When His light smiled;

      The lord touched our souls

      Like a wind blowing a fowl’s bottom

      And we perceived light.

      Accepting for better,

      For worse

      Was just a child’s play

      For you loved me

      As I loved you.

      Our passions became holy!

      In the morning, I saw love;

      In the afternoon, I felt love;

      In the evening, I touched love.

      How I wish to ride with you forever

      In this holy sensation of romance…

      Till death binds our souls in paradise.

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      AFRICAN WOMAN

      Her black complexion remains her symbol of beauty

      As jolly as a real, real red rose.

      Her elegance and intelligence makes her a symbol of love

      For her soft succulent body leaves men crazy

      As she moves majestically shaking her wonderful bottom.

      Such a pretty mermaid princess!

      On her lies the fate of Africa through hard work

      Comfort, humility, honour and thus prosperity is assured.

      Modesty and prestige were bestowed onto her

      By the almighty who alone knows why she is so special.

      Such a unique creation, so perfect in appearance

      Though one can never tell the interior of all.

      O African woman! Not of any equivalence nor comparison;

      Symbol of courage and hope!

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      AFRICA MASSACRE

      O comrades! My dear African brethren!

      Clashing claws everyday does our land drain

      Trampling good spirits in an obscure stay

      As we pull our bows of hate everyday

      Lulling low our spirits of brother-love

      In the cunning face of the foreign clove

      We do breed greedy and corrupt feelings

      Let’s no more massacre our land­’s feelings

      But stand as one to think as does the dove

      With golden hearts glowing of that pure love

      For the land on which we stay and do pray

      Is called mama Africa with her gay

      Look of hospitality and fresh grain

      O comrades! Why do we Africa drain?

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      TRIBALISM

      I loaded my bazooka

      Sniffed for him about the air

      And went searching through the lair

      As explained by the busker

      But beheld his foot path not

      I peeped through the filled alley

      And hurried down the valley

      But beheld his foot path not

      I reckoned the Holy See

      Rocketed up the hills high

      And prayed to God in
    the sky

      Looked down the glass of the sea:

      He had been right behind me

      He had been right behind me.

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      LET’S UNITE

      Let’s blend the strength of our wit

      And make our land filled with wheat

      But brew not all into wine

      For the forth coming generation to dine;

      Let’s plough not arms at ourselves

      Else we’ll destroy the shelves

      That behold the foundation stones

      Of our nation’s bones;

      Let’s strive not for today’s food

      But for tomorrow to be good;

      Let’s be as strong as the flail

      For our effort never deemed frail

      In the face of our fatherland

      When invited is the lord’s hand.

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      ROSE

      Unlike all other flowers, a fair rose she was:

      A soft, bright fairy glittering like diamond;

      She was gold in human form;

      So juicy and pretty;

      So elegant and pleasant;

      So fresh as ice cream;

      And well shaped like a Spanish guitar.

      In a rhythmic mood she moved

      For her steps came from the spheres of beauty

      In an elegantly fitting dress

      That made her bottom swirling majestically.

      Mouths were filled with saliva

      And minds fuelled with amazing lies

      As the men’s appetite was wetted

      To capture and nurture the rose’s heart.

      Some courageous men made their way

      To and fro Jerusalem with great success

      Hitting their chest to have touched gold.

      Then, regretted gravely too late like Hewett

      For the gentle medical screening

      Revealed the presence of the hawk-lion ghoul:

      HIV and AIDS.

      Beware for all that glitter is not gold!

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      LONG TIME NO SEE

      On a smooth lawn in a garden of misery

      Wearing a cold face of nostalgia

      (Not knowing who deserved “good morning”

      Or “to hell with your dreadful policies”),

      I wandered after a fruitless prayer

      Fuelled by Igbo domination and British neglect.

      Firm, I stood and resolved to fight for liberation

      Without knowing which way to follow.

      Then of no coincidence, I tumbled on Ahidjo, my brother:

      “Hey, Foncha! Long time no see!’’

      He said confidently in a loud voice

      For he was the Godfather of la Republique.

      Grieved with joy, we ran into each other

      And resolved never to part, but to be each other’s keeper.

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      VOICE OF THE VOICELESS

      It’s most certain of calamities

      That our society suffers a demise of beauty with diseases

      Like corruption, unemployment and bitter poverty

      In this state of most dubious fraudulency

      Of no fair and transparent elections

      Where democracy is rode by the military

      Of unscrupulous vacuums as politicians.

      We now live in a trance of chilling panic

      Not knowing who’ll die next.

      carrots and sticks now work hand-in-glove everyday

      Instead of a true democratic government

      Where the masses: the majority

      Have a say in their stay.

      “We need a humble leader full of courage and stamina

      And not a power drunk stooge.”

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      CHANTAL BIYA

      What thinkest my soul

      Of this tonsured land

      Than thy palpable hand?

      Thy heart that fights the ghoul

      That scares the downtrodden;

      Removes the vulnerable’s load

      And in the old, injects fresh blood

      Taking away their huge burden.

      Thy gruelling-gruff silences hubbubs

      Bringing forth fresh olive dew

      And the dream of a land pure:

      A brightened glow over the dark suburbs.

      To suffering, thee say ‘cheerio!’

      To diseases, thee say ‘cheerio!’

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      CAMEROON

      Popular unique diverse scenery,

      Well adorned with beads of beauty

      Rich in nature like in culture

      Intensified are thy raids torture

      Taming down the trees of corruption

      Yawning loud like sick a nation

      And we all know thy harmony

      Nourishing all tribes with honey

      Drained in joy like in sorrow

      Pulling all to sleep as the drums bellow

      Entering the mountains up high

      And beholding the call of thy eye

      Craving across the peaceful sheep

      Ever since you lulled us to sleep.

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      THE POET

      Like all builders do know

      To be told by the old

      I behold in elbow,

      But for the young, I fold

      My tools in peace and pray

      For all the strength from God

      For my soul be not prey

      As I do step on board

      With the eyes of poetry

      Peeping through a blue pen

      That flows with the mastery

      Of the fingers that spend

      For all to prostrate straight

      For God to bless our state.

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      L’ANGE DE COMBAT

      You grant power to the greatest authority

      But can trample on kings

      Through impeachment;

      Your paces can crush million lives

      With just mare traces on paper.

      Your impact in presidential decrees

      Sets the society into gallops.

      So you'll be my angel of war.

      It only suffices your rolling on paper

      For you’re a super legend.

      Everything shall somersault;

      Your scraping shall cleanse this sick society

      Infested by greed, blended by imbecility;

      The embezzlers shall feel your mortal breeze

      And even corrupt and tyrannical fellows shall bow.

      Your claw shall cut the rope

      On innocent peoples’ neck.

      Your wisdom shall then breed

      Patriotic fellows of good will

      To amend this battle to an expected end.

      Oh! My momma of everything!

      You give me reason to all

      Especially when you shoot troubles.

      With all your valour and bravado,

      Men just call you ‘pen’.

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      POETRY

      The genre that changes water to wine

      Through the spontaneous overflow

      Of emotional language groomed mathematically

      To suit its role in the society;

      A fierce bulldog unleashed

      To scare away the world's dark memoirs

      And cleanse the entire land

      By uplifting ideas of good will to eminence;

      A patterned and orderly way of life

      Where even bended trees become erect

      And withered plants freshen

      With just its manifestation.

      Patriotic poets call it:

      ‘The divine tool for an ideal society.’

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      LOVING OUR COUNTRY

      If this be the thread of a love play,

      Let’s knit it tightly so fitting that the flare

      Does erupt as molten lava in display

      For all men to glare

      At the essence of love

      As the eyes o
    f our heart do blend

      At the world’s narrow clove

      And the adventures of this beautiful den.

      Be not in a hurry

      To the land of straw berry

      Else you’ll never arrive

      At the mysteries of good life

      I’ll say no more of the excess

      For my words trot in the soul of my princess.

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      MYRTLE

      You trot in my garden

      With charms splashy-golden

      In the green flavoured range

      That never knows of change.

      Are your wonderful leaves

      From fresh dewy olives?

      Does your ever cool smile

      Travel through my sole mile?

      Why? Flowers by my grange

      See your so-sweet melange,

      O sweet lovely myrtle,

      With bleak jealous rattle.

      Yet, you remain the food

      And fuel of my manhood.

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      VOW TO MY HOMELAND

      If death

      Be my breath

      For I speak the truth

      May I die a proud myth

      For all to savour the mirth

      In my strength.

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      TAKE ME TO THE FERRY

      ‘‘O sweet lovely fairy

      Of truth, ride me to the ferry

      That’ll put my soul aboard

      And sail countless miles to the lord.’’

      I did tell the book of life in worry

      ‘‘Behold my thoughts with wisdom

      And let them sound like a drum

      For the old and young to dance

      As their lives do trot and bounce.’’

      I did seek from God’s kingdom

      ‘‘Give me not as I wish

      But as wills the wish

      Of thy might of calm and thunder,

      O Almighty creator of wonder!’’

      And that was my last wish.

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      STRANGE LOVE

      Kain: Be not to me a snare

      Nor do behold me scared;

      Nor mourn over my wife

      Gone in that unknown life.

      Nain: Baffle me not with word

      For you are my sole lord.

      Palpate not my heart’s drum

      Nor let our love a-gloom.

      Kain: My fortune is all gone

      And my household all gone:

      Why do you feel this love

      When lonely is my clove?

      Nain: Your ways of heart plunder

      Through my soul like wonder.

      I doubt if I can live

      Without you, my olive!

      Kain: If God made you the flare

      For me to love and glare

      In sorrow like in joy

      Let’s do not that destroy.

      Nain: You are now old and poor,

      Your home is dead and poor

      But love is never few

      So let’s love and feel new.

      Kain: My eyes do behold feast

      For I won’t see that beast

      Called hate in this love bay,

      Not again shall we sway.

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      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      Those who knew him

      Said he was that pure

      Genius that made life new

      Even from the sphere dim.

      Those good writers did hold

      To us all his works as great

      With no thought of regret,

      Even from those manuscripts old!

      Centuries have bowed to the ink

      Of those great, great poems

      And plays of such heroic rhymes.

      Even the men of mirth did sink!

      No one could dare spare

      Trotting through those lines

      As they were ancient sweet vines.

      Even its purity pulled the sphere!

      He was great and wrote great

      Of the great souls he knew

      But no man can boast he knew

      Even his birthday, for it needed a soul great.

      At times I wish to bid inspiration

      By calling him ‘Willy’

      But think only of a willy

      Even as he bore inspiration!

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      THE HOLY HAND

      The power of God

      Dragged me from the mud,

      Pulled me from the trench

      Of sorrow, of stench

      In great days of old

      And did roar: ‘‘behold

      Of inspiration

      In every nation.

      Create for all to read’’

      And it was my bread

      In dusk like in dawn

      To write for all men.

      Writing was as sweet

      As Solomon’s wit.

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      ROSYBELLE

      The glory of life lies in great deeds

      As the backbone of love lies in beauty.

      But he who searches without finding

      Ends up finding without searching.

      After a feverish fruitless search, I tumbled on a sweet lady

      A demoiselle full of the varieties that rumble men’s hearts.

      O yes! A soft succulent fragrant rose with a heart

      As gentle as that of Jehovah God.

      A lofty speech, she possessed, full of saga

      Like a dagger that pierced open my heart

      Letting the fresh dew of love to water my mind

      Through the most nurturing manner in an irresistible smack.

      I shivered like a weaver beaten by rain and said

      “I love you… Rosybelle”

      As her hairy skin set a tickling current flow through my body

      Awaking nostalgic thoughts of love.

      Like a woodpecker on a tree’s back,

      She killed my senses with exuberant magical caresses

      And kisses sounding so loud that I felt like a bee

      In a thrilling emotion with nectar.

      Never had I gone on such a romantic ride before

      A physical and psychological sensation

      Of tremolo feelings groomed to purity

      By the ultimate power of beauty.

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      HELLO

      Hello!

      Hello!

      I quit my pillow

      When I hear that bellow

      I wonder what can bellow

      Like a young swallow

      Through my window

      Above my shadow!

      Is it the gentle rainbow?

      What romantic a mellow?

      My TV says it’s Hello!

      And that’s just a lovely bellow;

      I rush and feel the sweet hello bellow

      And in joy, I say “bravo Hello!”

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      LOVE IS WICKED

      A new dawn smiled-low and slow

      In her gentle pretty blue eyes

      As the power of sweet music flew

      Loud-through our love like a spice

      As the day staggered forth with fat

      Surprises twinkling my heart with joy

      As I felt like a rat in an utopia of no cat

      As free as a glittering toy.

      At the scorn of nightfall, I sobbed like a wingless fly

      Caught in the scum of the sky

      For on her bay had she gone-so rare

      Like a missing crown of an heir.

      Everyday, I wander in tears crying ‘come back Mariana’

      For love is wicked without my Madonna.

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      LOVE CONQUERS ALL

      She wore a melancholic frown

      On her ever great face bath brown

      By dusty springs of dust on air.

      As beautiful as a rose she was, for the fair

      Skin became more pleasant

      In her gown that remained ever elegant.

      I must confess, she preferred
    hell

      To the bitter scum of hail

      For when it showered muggy,

      Every footpath became muddy.

      She tiptoed and shook with jittery

      Like the poor pale peasant infested by misery.

      Yet, no one could dare her beauty

      For she was the real definition of the word pretty

      Médiatisée par sa jolie démarche.

      She had the honour of a perfect match

      With the greatest prince in the universe,

      One that could own countless fortune and still invest.

      “I wish I had the beauty of seasons

      By my side to lavish this flourish season”.

      The poor pale peasant cried in his idle site

      For life without love is like suicide

      And dying for love isn’t easy, though

      It’s a sign of bravado

      Knock and it shall be opened,

      Ask and it shall be given

      The poor lover thought and dove

      To amend his faith in love and shove

      The princess’ love far fetched

      And luckily, the princess too had searched.

      Kings thought it folly

      Seeing the dame jolly

      In the poor man’s arms

      And wished it were their arms.

      It was a shame for she was dignity

      And the purity of royalty.

      But, she felt the poor man’s love

      As she had wandered all her life for mare love

      And nothing could so well blend her history

      Than love’s mystery:

      It never lets true lovers fall

      For love conquers all.

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      THE MOURNING ANCESTORS

      The chief priest advanced in sacred robes adorned with cowries

      And skins of lion and tiger

      Chanting and pouring libation.

      The sad crowd stood all ears:

      “Gods of our ancestors! Awake!

      Here is a cock, kolanuts and a jug of palm wine,

      Though our sacrifices are more of hearts”.

      The mouthpiece suddenly tore the ground

      With a spear, grunting and sniffing danger.

      Then, instead of breaking the alarming coldness of fear, he said:

      “Too bad!”

      Killing every native as he added,

      “Even the gods too do mourn”

      He saw a bleak-black presence of the gods:

      Gravely disappointed souls casting their faces to the ground.

      In grotesque black robes with pitchless voices;

      Sleepy and staggering bodies in despair

      As weary as dying drunkards staring with faintly eyes

      As smoke glowed from their gray hairs;

      Smudgy sweat peeled-off their faces as they spoke:

      “We treaded in the hot fire of unspeakable torture

      Enduring the heart-piercing pains of mortal sacrifices

      For the liberation of this land……. Our enemies laugh at us

      For what was denied kings is now being torn by dogs

      (Called our sons) in the streets into pieces.”

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      FOOTBALL DANCE

      Far from being reality, but very true!

      In a famous orange arena

      Sweats dangly legs flopping gigantically

      With fighting muscles pulled to limit.

      Winding right and round

      On the gentle motion ball

      Timed by a steady defender in concentration

      Like a cat on the rat’s track.

      Winding right and round again

      Goes the stiff dancing legs

      Like a bikutsi dancer

      Caught in the thrilling sensational merengué.

      Winding left, then round and round

      With a full maitrise of the brain

      Glittering through calculating eyes.

      Then, a swift swing of passément des jambes…

      The defender goes flat to the ground

      Creeping like a baby in front of Ronaldinho.

      Ha! Ha! Ha! The crowed is relieved

      For the spectacle is just spectacular.

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      RELIGIOUS SAFARI

      Once upon a time,

      Preachers stormed a street

      In a sporadic speed

      Near the maritime.

      They did preach

      To the poor

      And did pour

      Praises on to the rich.

      The poor did become poorer

      And stroke with tears

      Whilst the rich got fears

      As they grew richer.

      Was it the will of God

      For the preachers

      To grow richer and richer

      From the poor that toil in mud?

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      DEATHLY CLAWS

      They swagger with daggers

      Testifying of the flood of human blood

      Like devoted monks in devotion

      ‘‘Do what we do, not what we say!’’

      With no name of shame, but fame

      In chest-swording with zest

      Since few people due their view

      For not only innocent people but saints die

      ‘‘Inch alla!’’ They’ll boast for alla

      ‘‘It’s a mare holy snare for snails.’’

      For sure, barren is he who stains for grain

      But brave is he whose grave comes with rain.

      The most constant range in life is change

      But when shall al-quaeda take a mall?

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      CHRIST IN MY LIFE

      From the first day

      I met Jesus,

      My life changed as I fell in love

      With the memoir of his resurrection

      That drove away darkness from my life

      Bringing the fresh beauty of light

      Even to my darkest nightmare.

      Any time an obstacle came,

      I saw the hand of God

      In my life

      And was swiftly moved

      To victory;

      He rumbled my heart with joy

      By filling my soul with anointing.

      He is like a rainbow-rose

      That brings colour to my day

      Men say they have found something sweet

      In this evil world

      But I bet you, I’ve found the sweetest.

      For sure, the sweetest of the sweetest

      Is Jesus Christ.

      Far far away

      People search Christ

      Like gold

      When He’s just within

      As love.

      Try him for He’s the way of truth,

      And nothingness becomes everything in His presence.

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