Legends Of My Heart

Oh Woman The woman lay on the floor The whole city in her heart The woman lay weeping The great men in her womb The woman lay sleeping The world at her back Lashes on her back By her fellow comrades She is the mother of us all The pillar of this and that And when she walks on the streets Her children hail her strength My mother your mother Caned by endless years of oppression In pains from the tears in her heart Yet she grows stronger than the Iroko tree The nation will die Without the milk in her breast. The nation will stand still Without the power in her Yet the cane is at her back Let the ground feel the injustice

Desert sands (Memories of a woman)

The woman in me cries out Many are the moanings and pains My menstrual blood caresses the sand Sending an agony into my soul The woman in me cries out. Let me lead the men To paths of glory I am the prophetess Luring and curing them with my charm I am the prophetess I see the dawn for our children I am the earth I give birth to all the men I am the mediator Without my feminine mystique The world will be sick and sorry Without my feminine charms The men will come to harm The earth is a beauty to behold Because of my charm and grace I am the woman The goddess of them all So let the pains cease That is the woman A mixture of joy and pain

Tears of a woman

The tears of a woman Sent tears down her skirt Memories of another day When the rain will fall again The joy and goodness in my heart

Amazon I am an amazon I am a warior

I hold a spear in my hands I will conquer great heights I am an Amazon I am a warrior Even though I am a woman I am stronger than a man I will climb the highest mountain I will set the prisoners free I will break the chains of slavery My people will be great Because of my conquests My people will be bold Because of my prowess I am yet so beautifull All the men adore me I conquer with my spear and beauty The earth smiles at me I am the envy of every man Without me the sand will be sad Without me the men are powerless Rest on my hands Beause I am the hand that rocks the cradle All men come from my bossom I am the woman

WHAT A WOMAN IS A woman is like a butterfly With golden wings That tends the flowers of our earth

Making sure the earth can smile A woman is like a butterfly A treasure for all season Both past, present and future And without this butterfly The earth will be barren How beautiful is the woman Towering like a mountain Blessing the earth with her juice Mother of the earth Queen of all generation Source of all inspiration How beautifull is the mother Lover of our children Creator of our future Foundation of the nation And no one can kill this butterfly That flies like an angel And the men must bow to her Queen of the nations

A CITY (IN MEMORY OF A WOMAN) A woman once lay At the foundation of a great city Covered by stones and sands The people walked on her Trampling on their mother A woman once lay At the dusts of time Forgotten by time As bright as Eve in Eden Walking among the trees Never eating the forbidden fruit Greives my heart in pain All the men from her womb Yet they cannot understand Her heart and strength …………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………… …………………………A woman once lay. WOMAN’S MUSINGS Made from Adam’s bones As tough as the sun Made from Adam’s bones As hurt as the ground Suffering Victim of every man’s look and desire The penis must rise at her dainty steps Yet they call her the prostitute The stars will shine on her bossoom Making her to arise To another day.

Misunderstood Miss Eve still stands As proud as the sun Misunderstood Miss world Perch on her beauty Like a bird on a branch Looking, inching away……………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………… …………….Woman Miss World (Dairy of a misbegotten woman) The world stage is set up I must win the beauty contest I am like an actor in a play Only this….im a woman I am like an actor in a play Must I stand naked today? My breasts are busty and ripe All the men stare at my nakedness I run like Eve in God’s garden Lipsticks, nail polish, Eye shadows Casting my shadows on their eyes God help me Slave of the earth Yet it’s only source of joy God looks down Smiling yet frowning The earth threatens to shiver and shake Am I a fornicator or beauty queen? But I do not know The earth looking……………………wondering

What is next The stage is set Let the 6 billion people see………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………… …………….Who is the most beautiful woman in the world? THE EARTH’S VOICE Earth speaks, Fire and wood Nature and Elements Burn my soul Like the fires of hell Earth speaks Sands of time Dusts of history Into my heart And Back again……………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………… ……………………………Earth speaks

FIRES IN MY SOUL (AN EXPRESSION OF ME) The fires in my soul Is an expression of me Me and I in the mirror And the fire burns in the mirror Reflecting my soul My innermost longings My desires and heart Are all let loose The earth speaks to me About time and my fore fathers But my destiny is in the mirror Time and fortune in my hands Look at the mirrors of time………………………………………………………………… …………………………..The earth speaks

MY SOUL My soul is a mixture Of equations and molecules Though I am not a machine The screws and bolts in me lock Doors of my soul closed to you I ruminate to my self Abstract thoughts pile in me Like books in a library My soul is a library of books See my self in nature See myself among the leaves of the trees I rest on the green grass Smile in my heart The rainbow above speaks to me Now my soul can find rest………………………………………………………………… …………….tranquility The earth speaks

THE WOMANS TEARS The woman’s tears fell on the earth Making me to give birth To many pains And many gains The woman’s tears fell on the earth Giving me back memories again But in my hands I carry a stain Carrying the sand of history in my hands What will be my gain? Centuries of oppression and discrimination I am locked and chained in the Kitchen Made to look like a baby maker I am locked and chained in the Kitchen

LET US DISCOVER Let us discover This common humanity between us That binds us together Let the human race Come together as one From every tribe and nation of the earth Let us stand together To make the world a better place Let us discover Reasons to love each other So we will never grow apart Love your fellow man Oh let us discover For love is stronger than an army The noise of the soldiers gun- shot Cannot silence the cry of love That is eternal in the human heart And the hate mongers Cannot go on forever Oh let us discover For Love is what we have to give Future generations of the world Where is the murderer? Where is the hater? For the earth has told enough tales Of war and hate And hear the noise Of the ghosts of the dead children

FOR LOVE For love is like a diamond in the sky That drops in every human heart Giving us great wisdom and power For the love in our hearts Will never depart As long as the stars are in the sky And even if you see a mad man On the road to your house Take him as your brother or sister And love him or her For we are all God’s creatures And God expresses himself Through us.

I STAND I stood on one side of the globe I saw another man on the other side The different faces of every man The different voice of every race All come together in one language That every heart and spirit understands And that is the smile you feel across the streets And that is the magic you see in the stars And that is what makes our heart to tick And that is the language of love Love on every human face And if we shoot ourselves to death With guns and explosives everywhere The earth will ask why? And the last man on earth Will have no one to talk to me So hold me my brother For you are the one next to me Together we unite And shout this language of love Which we see in the sun Together we unite For love is all we need.

THE CHILD The child played with many castles Castles he built in the air The child played with many castles Dreams of yesterday As the old man said But the child knows not yesterday He pauses at the beach of time To throw stones at the oceans of fortune Longing for another tomorrow The child plays at the beach of tomorrow Swimming into the waters of destiny The stars in the sky Telling the child Pointing towards the future Many ideas on the child’s mind The child points towards tomorrow Waiting for the passage of time To show his greatness to the future Clap for that great man For every great man was once a child …………………………………………………………………… ……………….The child plays with the marble

BOY CHILD Singing child, Boy child Child in a man’s body Billie Jeans or Rock with you Rock with the oceans of time And now that you are no more I hope that time will tell it’s story Don’t stop till you get enough Keep running the race of greatness Don’t stop till you get enough Moonwalk and break you bones Black or white Man with 5 heads I am now a ghost Don’t worry I will dance thriller with ghosts Don’t let me dance again Or I will die cause I am tired Let me dance with spirits And remember………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………… …………….Don’t stop till you get enough.

MY COUNTRY MAN Oh my country man Country hard my broda Common man on the streets Naija how you dey now? Naija no money for pocket See man for road See man for street Hunger dey everywhere I carry my jerry can go petrol station Broda no petrol for town I carry my jerry can Go fetch water Broda no water for tap Broda na everyday I dey cry Broda see wetin Dem turn counti to I follow old man talk Just yesterday Old man tell me Say God dey I dey wait for the future Even for now Country hard my brother

TIME I wish I could cast My stones of Divinity On the turn of events So I could know the future. I wish I could cast My stones of divinity So until eternity I will be a soothsayer So I could defeat fate So I could defeat destiny I wish I could cast My stones of divinity So spirits could speak to me So I will be divine I wish I could transcend humanity So the human family Will discover the divinity in them But I am only human And so…………………………………………………………………… ………………………………I wish.

POVERTY Everyday, I see you in the market-place Strutting around the place Like a king You enslave the world And put them in chains Chains of servitude You must be conquered No food in the house You follow me everywhere Even to my bedside Because of your chains My hand is a skeleton Because of your chains You put my money in jail And my soul in prison I kneel before you To be released from captivity But you cane me Crucifying me………………………………………………………………… ………………..Poverty