Heroic is your whim to hire or fire
As a prize you set at month-end for all
Courtesy of you, budgets lanky grow
Whilst some wantonly feed
Family, food, fun and friends -
Your presence, these, for each of us
avails
In varied phantoms, oft see you:
At times as bosses, asserting a choice
Aristocrats with prestige and clout
Relational, you easy go on
Perfectionists, demanding on tasks
So eminent, lots to know you crave
Some, a career build of relating with
you
Whilst most, a repository for you keep
And pride in the reach of you they’ve
got
Fear I you, lest you walk away
Or ‘no-holds-barred’ go on negative
press
Fear if haply, you’d be wooed to
‘elope’
Fear I you, lest you upset get ………
Not like Alexander, The Great
Nor Legendary Achilles of Sparta
But the Hero who’s got my CEO hired
(S)he whom the Board reports to and
heeds
Who lives not in comic books, nor
utopia
Rather, in my world is so real
And daily logs/walks/calls/writes in
The one to whom our services belong
The very Hero that’s named YOU!!
Love – Oasis in the Desert of
Life
By Moshood Azeez
In some desert-place of life,
Where drought prevails, and storms
are rife,
A therapeutic fountain, hid from sight,
A beaming sun of love and light,
A compelling sovereign of the hour,
Asserts her inexplicable mystifying
power —
She’s hums softly like a bee
I call her Bee
Here within coated words, the genesis
lies
The heart was hurting and on a trip
Searching for someone –
By the thorns of cactus
Near the desert of Damascus
Rain comes to desert
Through the clouds – came thunder
All of a sudden – a stranger – Bee
Like oasis in the desert
The music of the busy bee
So drowsy and so comforting
Emanates and animates everything
The stretch of sand smiles for a while
The blistering sun walks thousands of
miles
Hope comes to the desert
And life stands apart
Bee, you hum softly like a bee
You are a gem; a rare one
Rare like sapphires because
I have never seen one before
Appealing like diamond because
I have never had one before
Sacred like rubies because
They make the gates of Heaven
Have you ever truly loved?
Or have you always longed?
Somewhere in life’s desert is an oasis
Lying your therapeutic fountain,
A beaming sun of love and light,
A compelling sovereign of the hour,
Asserting her inexplicable mystifying
power
If only you can seek.
Seek, and you shall find
Time is life
By Adekemi Olapade
There are times we wish our dreams
could be real.
Sometimes we desire our wishes
come true.
There are times we believe our desires
could be lived.
Sometimes we live what we believed.
Life is an accumulation of time.
Time invested positively, gives a pro-
ductive life.
In life, in every situation, there is
always a choice.
A choice to stand firm for what you
believe,
Or move on with the multitude.
A choice to be persistent, even in the
face of rejection,
Or head bowed in shame, feeling
dejected.
A choice to say ‘Yes’, even when it
takes your every strength to deliver,
Or say ‘No’, and give in to inability
A choice to rise, even after a fall,
Or stay flat on the ground in frustra-
tion.
A choice to live,
Or a choice to die.
With wisdom, best choices are made.
Timely investment in today, will give a
desired tomorrow.
Today was once a ‘yesterday’
Today was once ‘a year ago’.
Today once seemed like ‘forever’.
Once there is a ‘ Start’, there will
always be a ‘Finish’
Therefore, endure the pain, smile
through the storm,
Tomorrow is almost here, and all the
pains forgotten.
We can only get out of life, what we
make of it.
With wisdom, invest in time positively,
and life will give a beautiful turn.
Uganda
By John Okumu
I was born in Uganda
In the war and poverty
I love Uganda my country
I will save Uganda.
I was born in Uganda
The richest land for others
The heaven for our brothers
I must save Uganda.
I was born in Uganda
The city of seven hills
That trades in clean bills
Let me save Uganda!
Nana Fati by Nonso Nduanya, (Charcoal)
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