Unshareable

Tope says:

I can't share you with anybody

cos you're not just a property

not something to be toyed with

and then shared with the person next-seat

you're an angel my dear

an angel I cannot bring myself to share

cos you've come to make my life better

and I want you to stay with me; forever

Now, choose between him and I

you are my heart, the apple of my eye

choosing him could kill me

but if you do, so shall it be

then you become his

and I do not deserve a parting kiss

cos I do not want to share you

I swear, under the skies so blue

I love no other as I do you, it's true

I wish we could share that fiery fire anew

but I do not want to share you, in anyway

so, you could either go or stay

and as much as I prefer the later

Alas, in your hands lie the matter 

Listening to me missing you

Tope says:

I feel it as my body slowly weakens

I hear it as my heartbeat shortens

my breath coming in laborious puffs

my feet immovable as if they're in cuffs

A life without you is not a life at all

I wish I could just climb a precipice and fall

but that wouldn't bring you back

that would only make me death's snack

and I choose live, life with you

I want my life, to start anew

I feel the tears burning my eyes

I regret all those unwarranted lies 

I know this pain is more than my size

I see it with my peripheral vision

that your heart has acquired an omission

and that missing thing is me

my link to your heart has broken free

I taste the bitterness of heartbreak

I smell your love for me as it recedes away

every step it takes makes my heart ache

and I tell myself, there should be a way

another way, that things should go

I know, I'm sure, things shouldn't be so low

but do I have a choice?

when you don't want to hear my voice

when you term it as unbearable noise

I see myself going down, sinking

but should I kill myself thinking?

Nirvana

Tope says:

Sometimes you get to somewhere you can't stay

even if it's Avalon so far away

for it might be a land of bliss

but that bliss isn't as much as you please

for what is a straight line with too many wobbles?

what is Avalon with so many troubles?

a pilgrim comes to the holy land not to stay

but to pay homage to God and pray

it's not everyday we get pacific beaches on which to lay

for sometimes, our dreams, adversaries do slay

but I hear of a state of mind

in which all worries are left behind

a state where one is one with God

Nirvana! A state after all not so absurd

The Overcomer

Tope says:

I came, I saw, I failed

but like a true scion of the land where I hailed

I picked my sword and got up

cos I'm never going to give up

this is only the beginning of my victory

and this is not the time to get jittery

there are still lots of obstacles on my way

and I intend to overcome them night and day

until that moment when I hear hooray!

then I shall know that I've made it

then shall I taste the honey of success so sweet

only then shall I say;

I came, I saw and I conquered

for all my life's problems I have slaughtered 

and now, I bask in my achievements golden ray

Heartbroken thoughts

Tope says:

I know you've moved on
I know you're unto the next one
and I do not blame you for this
I feel it as my emotions crease
I know everything you've endured for me
and although, pain is everything I see
although, pain is all I feel
I know one day, I shall heal
all you've left me are dregs an d slivers of my heart
as I'd feared right from the start
And although, all memories  of you I cherish
although I might not be able to get my wish
if fate wishes us to be
no matter how much you flee
you shall eventually come back to me 
if destiny does wants us together
no matter how far we are from each other
we shall inevitably come back for one another
And although, I know you've moved on
although, I know you're unto the next on
the feelings we share are not entirely gone

Broken up

Tope says:

A wedge has come between us

and I've already started feeling the loss

as you go closer to him

my heart cannot help but scream

a scream of anguish and agony

cos I know what caused this already

I know, I pushed you away

and he was the first person to come your way

he seemed so loving and caring

while I couldn't even seem to know my bearing

he seemed to be always there

while I had nothing to share

so he became the better choice

he became the best amongst the boys

and I became an obsolete thing of the past

a memory soon to be forgotten fast

all these, my doing

and now my heart certainly needs some sewing

this I know and fear

I've torn my own heart from lack of care

Oblivion

Tope says:

Tongs, swords, maces and mallets

spears, bows, arrows and bullets

all these are weapons of destruction

tools used to carry out deadly missions

so many have wielded them and fallen

tasting their bitter edges, they've gone down; howling

so many warriors have left home never to come back

so many still on the battle field, trailing their mark

Prisons, tombs, jails and torture chambers

Pilgrims, children spies and fallen soldiers

these two sects go together

one a concrete nightmare for the other

housing them as they stay silently or scream bloody murder

some been locked up forever

the others' blood flowing like crimson river

so many weapons of destruction

so many tools of human annihilation

everyone made by man's hand

towards humanity's slow but inevitable end

 

Ode to the Negro

This is me

I am more than the eyes can see

More than this physical body

I do not live by it only

there is my soul, my spirit

My aura

A solitary yet self sufficient fauna

I am unique like no other

The world is my mother

Africa my father

I am courageous and bold

Like my ancestors of old

I am in tune with mother nature

I fill her ever-wanting aperture

I stand alone; the Creator my backing

and give her whatever she's lacking

A very complicated entity

I'm more unfathomable than the deep blue sea

Yet easy to be with

My words are soothing and sweet

When you lay supine

breathing the scent of a nearby pine

you remember me and smile

forget you troubles for a while

that is the effect I have on you

For I am guileless, I am true

Ice cold

Tope says:

In the dept of your eyes 
Eyes as cold as eternal ice 
I see a streak of warmth 
That if nurtured would grow so hot 
Hot as to melt that barrier of indifference 
Making you know the true meaning of love, hence, 
Giving you the ability to read my heart 
The perception to know me not as a relentless gnat 
But as a man who wants to be forever in your life 
Who wants you not only as a wife 
But also as the better half of his soul 
An ethereal angel ordained to make him whole.

Rules of a player

Tope says:

A player I am for real
and a tutor complete with the rules and drill
in this write-up I'm giving you the rules for free
so when you learn more,you'd be better than me
these are the simple rules from the first to the last
and if you wanna be a player you'd better learn fast
number one; get as much as spouses you ever can
then put your schedule tight as a milk can
get 'em all a place in your playtime time-table
it makes their coming and going stable and reliable
when they call you on phone, call them all dearie
and every single female plus your mom is "honey"
don't ever show your feelings unnecesarily
cos a hard heart keeps females locked out verily
and to get in they'd be ready to do anything
in the name of love they'd be caring and willing
thinking the hard heart comes from somethng troubling you,
they'd want to help dispell your worries; sticking to you like glue
times like these you make sweet feelings come out of the blue
warning! the difficult ones should be left alone still
until you've grown in wit and playing skill
don't dare date two friends together yet
cos that could bring one of the greatest disasters on earth
be friends with every girl you've met
and always be kind and friendly to everything in a skirt
cos most of them are angels waiting to be hooked
and your good behaviour gives you a free ticket to been booked
a good asset in getting the best outta them
give them sweet words to hold them to you very firm
to these words i've written take heed
polish them and put them all into one great deed
cos they'll forever bear you in good stee

Vile beau

Tope says:

Fire,water and ice
the egg of a cock, heat from a frog on a dung heap
that's what makes a cockatrice
such an evil creep 
a creature so vile
its stare freezes a man as far as a mile
but in comparision to you,
it's like looking at the clear sky, fine and blue
for this creature, for its vileness and all
isn't evil of its own making at all
but you woman of enchantment
act on your own imbred impulse of decieving
your soul as smelly as a hippo's excrement
your hearty full of the darkest forms of cunning
killing your love victims with lies as black as tar from the murk of hades
lies that would even confound the most condemned shades
alas, i'm the very unluckiest of these victims
believing your lies, going with every deceptive rythms
i couldn't have been a worse fool
knowing they were lies and still having you use me as your money making tool
i couldn't resist, compensating my loss with the ever present sight of your face
that angelic face,the only reason i'm not yet lunatic with craze
for it is stamped on my heart with such love and clarity
keeping me from losing my hate-worn sanity
all in all i bid you to remember
remember the law of karma
for i promise you with the whole of my torn heart
you shall meet your nemesis heart to heart.