Unleash Your Inner Self

A wide blanket of snow, Stretched out like curtain of silk. With no stitch line or edges What hands wrought this marvellous work? A wide sparse of land Gorgeously adorned with balls of fire, And dashing sparkle of jewels, Like a bride being led to her groom Always the same viewed from North, South, East or West. A virgin unravished by man A chaste land that belongeth to no man A sweeping canopy seemingly supported by the hills Thy gates shielded by their smoke A palace fit only for the greatest king The moon glorifying his presence The stars rending obeisance The crickets and the creeds lending their music at night Thy beauty teases us For you remained out of reach Like the promise of the second coming Oh that thou were my home! Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would hasten my escape from here below. Unfold my wings, Spread them and bid the wind to carry me. Then I would fly away, away to thee. And be at rest And the troubl...

A wide blanket of snow, Stretched out like curtain of silk. With no stitch line or edges What hands wrought this marvellous work? A wide sparse of land Gorgeously adorned with balls of fire, And dashing sparkle of jewels, Like a bride being led to her groom Always the same viewed from North, South, East or West. A virgin unravished by man A chaste land that belongeth to no man A sweeping canopy seemingly supported by the hills Thy gates shielded by their smoke A palace fit only for the greatest king The moon glorifying his presence The stars rending obeisance The crickets and the creeds lending their music at night Thy beauty teases us For you remained out of reach Like the promise of the second coming Oh that thou were my home! Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would hasten my escape from here below. Unfold my wings, Spread them and bid the wind to carry me. Then I would fly away, away to thee. And be at rest And the troubl...

Like the warmth of the morning sun, So do thoughts of you embrace me. Dreamlike I am awake, A glorious light of a new dawn. So is your presence in my life. Revealing the shadows in my life. Thus I would I can explain,           Like the smell of the rain. The feeling of forever. This pounding in my heart, A waterfall over steep rocks Flooding from your heart to mine Will forever be springtime Alas! The start of a new beginning.                       By- Olufunke Kolapo

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