SECRET

Your lips are like fondant
Love lives in your smile
Your eyes like gems of agate
I wonder where you've been.

Your touch resurrects my extinct awareness
Splendour of longing
The sweetness I have forgotten
I wonder where all the while you've been.

Let's meet again beside the river
Where romantic splash of water
Fondle the petals of African violet blooms
I wonder where all these years you've been.

TIME II

Chasing the hen with the broken tether
that spilled the herb in my colander
in vengeance to appease my empty pot.
This fugitive hen with the broken tether
I am sure, is sweating as profusely as I am
but for her feathery cat-suit.

Down, down goes the galactic light server.
soon the earth would light its bedside lamp
but before I sign my eyes out of this world
of dreams tethered to uncertainties
I will add up the wasted hours
while the hen with the reconnected tether
sleeps in peace till another dawn

TIME

Time melt away like candle wax,
leaving me with no peace, no grace
to recover my lost discovery
burning like a long tread on fire
shedding its ashes of fulfillment
on every space covered

O! that time may be found guilty
arrested, convicted and sentenced
to mortal imprisonment
punished for the cost of its
sadistic freedom
to lazy men in bondage.

(c)Sesan Ogundele May 2010.