Ordinary Water

Ars Poetica. I tweet poems and other random things.

@Marcus_Jinali91 Alter ego!

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@Bluea_ce Any movie directed by Ridley Scott would be nice.

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@Bluea_ce Watched Kingdom of Heaven?

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Your kingdom is not forever

-M-

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When the cathedral bell tolls
'nouncing the turn of your reign
And your dream becomes
as the warmth of your skin
Duly remember
Your kingdom is not forever

When life gets good
and rose petals litter your bed
Flowers thrown down
To herald the throd of your foot

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Take it all in, and be merry
But duly remember
Your kingdom is not forever

For it is the fate of man
To grow as the tendrils of the earth
To dominate as the trees of the forest
And then decline and wither
As grass uprooted and tossed in the dirt
So remember

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@Bluea_ce Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerr

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@Bluea_ce I'm sorry!!!

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And desire what they have
Ask yourself sincerely
Is their life an agbalumo?

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AGBALUMO

Reality slaps
Just like the African star apple
when eaten
We behold certain things from a distance
The lives of our mentors
The acquirings of others
and we say within ourselves
"I want it"
but what we are seeing
is only see the surface
But we exist

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All it takes, is for one to dabble upon the carpet
And you are at the bottom of this pit.
In the midst of muck and sh!t
So, behold humanity
With admiration for the beauty
Pomp and excellence it displays
But whenever you single out a person

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Or are you a mausoleum
Grandiose, magnificent
Built with high walls
And tiled with the marble and ivory
But holding nothing but corpses
keeping bones
sheltering desolation?

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A Hut or A Mausoleum

Are you a hut
Simple, unaesthetic
Festooned with simple trappings
with a muddy wall and thatched roof
But home for people and livestock
Supporting life

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Come back, I prithee
And undo what you have wrought
I did not wish that we would be apart But now that we are
You still hold me
In an invisible, yet tight grasp

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Come back to me
And leave again
With the memories that plague my mind
For even though you are no longer here
You still assail my senses
Your touch, still felt as though i lie next to you

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Sleep, i must
But i fear, that as i close my eyes
You creep out of my dreams haunting me with your charming laughter
terrify me with your beautiful smile
I exist as a one sleeping on a couch Infested with bedbugs
But too tired to even stir

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Seven days on an empty stomach makes one weak