"I will teach your eyes how not to grow weak
when you look at me
I will teach your mind how not to forget every words I love to speak
If dying is drowning in the river of your untainted alms
Where your hold speaks of the safety of Noah's ark
I will die so many time just to protect your
eyeballs from getting dark"
NOT LOVING YOU IS A PUNISHMENT
I'm done perusing the mystery that shrouds the real me
I don't want to learn me anymore, for my dream is being holy
And being holy is loving you only
Don't question my insanity
Just show me the light
That has been buried at the center of your heart
Open your eyes to this reality
That discovered the real me at the edge of your nose
The lids of your eyes
speak of the worth of gold
your moonshine eyes truly create paradise
That matched my reckless love life
I will teach your eyes how not to grow weak
when you look at me
I will teach your mind how not to forget every words I love to speak
If dying is drowning in the river of your untainted alms
Where your hold speaks of the safety of Noah's ark
I will die so many time just to protect your
eyeballs from getting dark
I left my breath in your nose
So you can be whole
So I can live in the deepest part of your soul
To learn everything that makes up your whole
With you I come alive
Like your shadow will not ceased to sprout to
life
With you I come I alive
Like happiness is condemned to create
laughter or make you smile
With you I come alive
for loving you is the only beauty I derived from life.
Kemi Bakare "kemistree" is an experienced young performance poet who had assumed the position of a performance director for AJ HOUSE OF POETRY ( A poetry performance organisation based in Lagos Nigeria AJEGUNLE)
She is a member of Y.P.I "YOUTH PASSION INITIATIVE", an organisation that is out to change the mindset of young people towards possibilities and uncommon community development. kemistreee demonstrates vastness of resources and utility as spoken wordpoet, her themes and performances compels attention from all. She emerged as the overall winner of WORDSLAM V organised by GOETHEINSTITUT LAGOS 2011. She reviewed a shortlisted children literature for LNG award 2011 and won the LOUDTHOZ best poet for the month of may in 2013. Kemi has been shortlisted in various poetry competitions including the NIGERIA/ZIMBABWE POETRY EXCHANGE 2012 and her poem "Mute The Songs of Excuses " was published in the Black Communion Poetry Anthology 2013. She has performed in various events such as the Lagos Black Heritage Festival 2014, Word up,Coterie, Picturez Magazine Launch 2013, Wole soyinka and @80 poetry tour 2014 in Nigeria Just to mention a few. kemistreee has been featured by various poets and rappers and was ranked 4th best spokenword artiste, 11th poet that rocked Nigeria in 2014. kemi bakare emerged as the overall winner of the Eko Poetry Slam 2014 organized by the Eko Literary Society and MeroFM 97.7. She is the first guest poet in Nigeria to perform for the 3rd Annual Celebration of the Unseen Awards alongside Lagos state Governor, S.A.N Babatunde Raji Fashola. she is currently working on a collection titled "What I have become". This young poet featured in a video alongside other great poet who calls for peaceful election in Nigeria for 2015 as well as the "Stop the violence."video with the wordup crew.
(C)kemistreee
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