Life is so unscripted,
that most times
when we struggle so hard
to get the best lines
we end up with the wrong parts.
©
Jacqueline
Tag Archive | Spoken word
This is Life…
This is life,
a beautiful, dirty fighter.
filling your eyes with splendour
then punches you in the guts,
with a fist full of pain
that breaks invisible parts
you never knew you had.
This is life,
shaped like a beautiful city,
charming yet endowed with chaos
glitzy upper streets with ghettos to the side;
just when you thought things looked rosy
the stench of its rawness sucks the air out of you
leaving you gasping and watering your face.
©
Jacqueline
Every Inch…
i doubt it…
you say that you love me,
i doubt it
‘cos your heart
is so barren
that nothing fruitful
but hate grows in there
you say that you love me,
i wonder how
‘cos you treat yourself
with such self-hatred;
and no one can find love
where hate inhabits
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Louder…
Pieces of you…
Anchor…
Be my anchor
even when your love
makes me fly
©
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Blood of The Lioness…
Words…
An Oasis…
It was a desert
but I chose to plant my dreams there,
now everyone comes to rest under my shade
for it has become an oasis
©
Jacqueline
