Poetry and Short Stories
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A mystical, poignant and chilling tale about three hidden saints who have to face great adversity, danger and menace in the modern day.
NO FEAR IS UPON THEM, NOR DO THEY GRIEVE.
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“So long as they don’t take the yam from my savouring mouth.” Niyi Osundare
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They firebombed the tomb of Al Rifai
All that remained was mounds of rubbles in piles,
But what business is it to me and to my ilk?
As long as they’ve purged the bida and shirk.
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Get indoors!
And lock em quick!
Watch out for the Mozlamics!
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First they’ll wrap yer in a burka!
Then they’ll make you eat samosa!
Their Sharon Law will make you sick!
Watch out for the Mozlamics!
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You can bomb us from the land, the air and rolling sea!
You can bomb us while we sit at home with a cup of tea!
You can bomb us in the markets and in the dusty lanes!
You can bomb us on the sandy beach and promenade!
You can bomb us even if we are just little kids!
You can bomb us even if we’re old and invalids!
You can bomb our houses, bomb our schools and hospitals!
You can bomb our sheep, our goats, our tents and cute kittens!
We will build our homes, our schools, our parks, our roads again!
We will fill our markets, fill our shops and streets again!
We will grow our crops and feed our goats and sheep again!
We will shed a tear for those of us you killed again!
We will bury them in the searing earth and soil again!
We will live our lives in the flattened streets and dust again!
You can bomb us, maim us, starve us, leaving carcasses!
We will build and grow and thrive and gain our right, JUSTICE!
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My dear beloved friends and colleagues,
We are gathered here once again to confront evil, like the time when we united to confront and triumph over the spectre of Hitler’s Germany. We are gathered here again to stand up for the cause of freedom, for the hope of freedom, for our god-given ability to determine our lives for ourselves and for our children. We are gathered here again, ladies and gentlemen, we are united here, we are one and will remain one, the same way as we did when we fought off those nefarious Nazis and blew them out of their panzers and their headquarters, kicking their mission for a Nazi hell-on-earth into the depths of oblivion! We are gathered here once again dear friends!
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Before, I thought it all a hopeless mess
Imagined all a helpless cry of distress
Considered all a hapless guess
Rejected all a heartless process
Abandoned all, a homeless essence
Until I found it All a hidden blessing
Discovered All a hopeful beginning
Accepted All a history of genesis
Unveiled to All a heavenly gnosis
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