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WATCHING SILENCE by Mide Benedict

Apus launcher wallpaper  It will all become watching silence When your two eagles fly With their wings unbroken, When your gallant horses run With their strength unaltered. It will become a watching silence When your black soil, Loam! Loam!

UNFILLED POCKETS by Mide Benedict

Behold them on the road and buildings, Those whose pockets never get filled- Front ones, back ones, side ones, All these keep eating and eating The cash and coins of passers-stop! And custody-shun! Their black pockets are always thirsty, Especially for the twenty of CBN's plenty. And these pockets Never get dry, yet unsatisfied.

OLD MAN! by Mide Benedict

                       To the young,                To the old,                To my country.... I remember you, old man, Standing by a boy with three bent heads. For hours you stood looking at how The three heads of this boy moved closer to a break,

THE OLD HORNS AND HOLD UNTOS by Mide Benedict

              ' We only hold on to those things sometimes because we are scared, afraid at what would happen when we've let go' Sometimes what we hold unto, what we think is our greatest treasure, what we think we cannot live without, all those things, every thing and everything are the first to be and can be lived without. We only hold on to those things sometimes because we are scared, afraid at what would happen when we've let go. We tend to ask the question, what will be our fates when we let go and would we be able to cope with ourselves, with life, with everything and everything when we set them free, but we cannot know

DEATH OF THE DEAD CULT By Mide Benedict

          And suddenly every man began to run to save his life!         Ah! What has crushed joy on the head?         Ah! What has made fun run to bed? They jumped into the arena of dances, Joy thickened on everyone's face Lovely air, sounds of drums filled the air. Ladies rushed out to shake their hips To show the men seated what they’ve got. Palm wine in cups Bush meat in hands Feet upon the ground Raising dust and sand, The celebration continued And the songs sang themselves greatly. And when the beings with masks arrived, Every woman jumped Every man hailed

A GLANCE AT MOTION GROUND SETTING: OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE

They-sat-two-by-two, Wings-tapped-together By-a-small-big-rope. There-they-sat Holding-hands,-hugging Clinging-colour-of-love Embrace-them-they-embrace it too Things that I have seen In this world In people And even myself. The danger that lies In ambush for that soul who clings more Who beholds more Who loves more and who- Death be sure too!-!sometimes! And even cry more... An ambush, fire started by the smoke Of lost love lowered down a pit by lust And when this be, Dove dies Love cries And like light dwelling in a black-hole, ZOOM! love is gone! But it may not be What this mind thinks Maybe they are-true-hearts Two-true-things-taped-as-one Mingling-together On-steps-of-an-ancient-ground Next-to-square-cups-of-grasses Arranged-on-the-cemented-floor Now-silently-resting-as-they-mingle-too With-the-breeze Calmly-giving-this-two-single-hearts An-expression-of-a-weather-for-two. You-shall-forever-be-a-home-for this; Motion-ground- Oh!-Motion-Ground;-