This Means More...

This means more

loving and you.

Listen to the drums

throbbing pulse of restless heartbeat

a wriggle, a wiggle

beauty in form and out

you can feel the tempo

 throbbing, restless heartbeat.

Listen to the minstrel

the floating of the melody

let it steal into you, 

stealing kisses off you 

as you warm to its soothing thrill 

Listen Ifemi, let it tell you 

how with you loving is redefined 

to mean more, to feel more.

'Cos if my heart that sings today

waits upon tomorrow's joy 

you'll be that part of me, 

that makes everything better by miles.

This means more,.

Loving with you.

@Wolespeaks!

WHAT ABOUT THE ONES I LOVED?

See them, all of them

unlike them I'm wont to making allowances.

so I'll say almost all of them

they all think they know me

and my story and my pains.

There they are, 3 personalities-in-1;

Prosecutor, jury and judge.

I have been arrested, tried and condemned

none of these in my presence or knowledge

worse still without a chance at mounting a defence

and feel righter than rain

when they say I'm loveless & stiff.

Today I'll have my day in court

singing, narrating, testifying

playing whichever role, it asks

asking in well weighted rhetoric

of the times I let down my guard,

the time I gave it my all?

I mean, what about the ones I loved?

Shall I talk of the one I loved

who took my love and shoved it down my throat?

 Or the one who kicked away

me, myself and the love I brought in tow.

Were you there, when I was thrown off a moving train

 by the one who used me to bolster her grades

and when her grades rose upon the suspension I toiled at

told me in plain terms not to call her number again?

I could talk of the one who offered me sweet smiles

like a sheep to the slaughter I was lured

I thought love and lust were both sides of one coin

and so through sweaty tryst and moans

I urged my waist to do more,

 to tell tales of my affections, I also urged

my arms to stretch beyond their limits in embrace

all till I was no longer fit for purpose.

Let me talk of the one who I could give half my life to

who at the rumbling of troubled

 skies unlatched my hands from hers

Let's take a little break were the words that shattered my world

I had just lost my university admission and thus unfit

so in words unsaid but acted,

I wasn't going to amount to much again

I'm taking in water, she had to jump ship.

There was the one who loved me

only because I was useful to her

in my error I made her my world

loved her with all my heart and strength

I spent it all on her; for her

paying my dues

till suddenly I became inadequate

I hate that you starve yourself, it makes me look like a glutton

was one of the excuses

not only did she walk into the night

she took with her all the light I had

and here I'm still picking

all the broken pieces of my heart

I could go and on

never been lucky in love

people don't love you for who you are

it's all about what you are, to them.

So when I break a few hearts

or perhaps find your confessions too sweet to be true

it's cos Tayo was more poetic, more lyrical and still left.

Nkiru told me her dreams,

 we were to make babies,

 something from us, just like Olivia did

 vivid pictures I could almost touch till she left me emptied.

If Faith can walk away after crowning me her best lover,

if I had a penny for every time she pledged me her body

I would be rich, far more than many.

Don't be mad Mon Chèri

I also met Ella's family and she mine

we had plans with dates and figures

you should understand why you haven't met any o'mine.

you're not saying anything I haven’t heard before.

You can say all you feel

cast aspersion, a mile long in worth

No man is only a thing, 

we all are different shades of a whole.

WoleSPEAKS!

THE GIRL FROM MY BOOK OF FACES 2

With unrequited affection comes the usual irony
Here I am chasing you with all I have and more
while you are there chasing him who chases another...playing out the old well know circle
l who chose on you to rain my bottled up feelings
can see you shower yours on him who floods another with his

Hello there,
girl from my book of faces
I'm he who swoons and fawns at everything you
you're good like your moniker relays
let me share in that paradise
that smile of yours, like sunset in its glory

Come dear sight for my sore eyes
here is my hand take it
closed your eyes and stare into my soul
don't be scared, follow me
lets be partners, co-captains sailing into our own forever

Here I am writing you another letter
like the 'dm' I sent your way yesterday
just for you to look at me and smile that smile
have mercy on my mother girl, let  me through you
gift her a daughter she never had.

Listen 'Angelito mio' to the voice of the enamoured
singing you some smokey ballads
And if again this goes unreplied
I shall be visiting this avenue once again
so may I have your phone numbers
this; a half-chance, just to hear your voice.

WoleSPEAKS!

THE GIRL FROM MY BOOK OF FACES 1

It happened like some ordinary thing
that day I scrolled down my timeline
on the book said to be of faces
I would see a comment you made
my gaze got arrested, magnet to iron

First it was about your name
it was in my native language
I called it out softly so I could hear the sound
loving how it rolled on my tongue
I didn't feel like stopping,
I imagined calling it all my life

I swiftly requested your friendship
you did obliged me yes
and I would that day troll your wall
feasting on your pictures
drinking in your awesomeness
can you recall at all
it was I think, close to your 'bornday'

I would go on to write you letters
requesting your contact, several times
you still say a no, not willing so to do 
a stranger you said I am
the very anomaly I was asking to cure 

Letters after another I would write you

with tales 
of how much by you I'm enamoured
till you had to joke,  if I earn my keep as a secretary
such lovely missives I sent your way you affirmed
but little do you know, the magic of affections
making of a grown man,a blushing school-boy

I still wait longingly
I still stare wistfully
for the day I'll move some inches closer
till the day and time I make of you my partner
of the day, of our morrow and a day after forever...


WoleSPEAKS!

I'M YOUR DADDY!

Come close dear daughter 
I see in you some great potential
your art is not one I've seen any like it
would you like me to mentor you
lest some idiot take advantage of you?
I'll be your daddy, from here on you're safe
your only problem is that you have no problem.

These girls; my daughters
big daddy is here for you my darlings,
I'm Chijioke, this is what I do best.
A writer is due some excesses
you wouldn't know yet dear daughter
but soon you will,
a man can only resist so long.

Dear daughter mine 
you know I'm a good at what I do, 
I can't be your father, no of course,
I can only be your daddy.

Fathers don't get to touch their daughters
much less boast their sexual conquests, 
what fathers tries to wrest a kiss, a fondle here or a suckle there?
my name is Chijioke, I am your daddy.



Oluwole.