FOCUS

Looking back at my yesterday can ne’er change my past

even my getting anxious can ne’er make me ever steadfast

as distractions and interruptions come and go

‘cause I need only pursue my goal like no bozo

Oh! Life is delightfully short and long

I need only embrace it faithfully as I travel along

often rising high and low like a rollercoaster

listening to my inner voice like a no scrounging cadger

Oh! It’s my own choice to make

and I needn’t delay it

lest I die of heartache before daybreak

achieving not my goal and at the end quit

Oh! I have a goal, I have a dream

though I often slip and fall on the trip

I have to always strive with eyes agleam

achieving my goal without a flip

It’s time to let things go

and to lovingly embrace my goal

following it like a maestro

achieving it with no loophole

IT'S A BRAND NEW DAY

A new day has broken

So the morning breeze whispered to me

And I can see our faces beautifully brazen

More than I can see in any alley

Oh! It’s a new day

And I’m seeing all things new

Shining beyond the sun’s ray

As we join the day’s crew brightly as blue

Oh! Pals in all locales

Jump down happily from your bed

And begin to sing melodies like chorales

In tunes never in history said

Oh! Forever keep smiling

It’s a terrifically nice day

Super and marvelously blooming

Clearing life’s bushy crossway

Are we not seeing it

It’s joy everywhere I see

Anybody there to admit

I can see reflections beyond the acme

Yes! I’m seeing it

And you are seeing it

We are all seeing it

We will forever continue to see it

It’s going to be an all-through wonderful day

I can hear us saying yes to that

As we walk gingerly like on a breezeway

Encouraging one another even with just a pat

It’s the newest day

And I know you are all happy

It’s not a mere hearsay

‘Cause I can see you not blowzy

Let’s keep on pals

And make the day not a doomsday

Let’s all have decals

And begin to shout hip hip hip hurrah

Oh! Kano of Blood and Bile

Series of blasts invaded us yesterday

Some of our lives were cast away

But we continue to bray

Before we end up never keeping them at bay

Like the lost of the famed groundnut pyramid

We were left insipid and crannied

But like a whizz-kid not wicked

We will not remain pallid and torpid

We’ll fight for our right

Even as things are not aright

And we are not alright

We will keep fighting until things are brightly right

Oh! Kano of walls and pottery

Embroidered with simple gaudery

We, you people, have been left weary and teary

In no lapidary quandary                  

We are truly in disarray

Dismayingly in dismay

As we run to lands so faraway

Leaving our land in decay

Like the Kofar Matar Dyeing pits

We are dying as the blast hits

Who are the culprits

Who have left us in the dark not lit

Peace and tolerance we pray

In our land full of clay

Lest we continue to slay

As each other we betray

Oh! To live in harmony we yearn

As crisis with one another we forever adjourn

Never again to each other fight and burn

But to live in unity, northern and southern

AT THE END OF A CRAZY QUIRK

Now, we’re lining up to school and work

At the end of a crazy quirk

Going berserk

We still sleep and rise in a murk

Oh! The face of corruption

Is shining brightly in a nation

Where religion goes on with no much comprehension

As power leads more and more to confusion

Oh! Peace and progress we seek

Even as things are everyday going bleak

We are creaking like our fellows around the creek

Waiting for the day we will no longer reek

AS A NEW YEAR COMES

A New Year is coming without fear

As we wait joyfully with no tear

Love’s coming to make us happier

As we aspire to become better

It’s an opportunity to live again

Even though we’ve been beaten by the rain

Another year is coming with love we cannot comprehend

However we try to apprehend

As we now begin anew

Let’s ask Him to fill us with grace like the early morning dew

That in spite of our weak will

Him, we shall serve still

We may do nothing

Just like we have not a thing

And the world may esteem us not

But happiness shall be our lot

The past is a gone history

Let’s begin to live our life’s new story

Helping one another whatever betide

Walking calmly against life’s stormy tide

Wishing you all a happy New Year

Even if you’ve got nothing new to wear

There’s hope in a future

No matter how little is our stature

ANOTHER BOMB BLAST

another bomb-blast

like the wind, it came so fast

trapping us in an old mesh

making our old wounds fresh

when will it end

we are finding it hard to fend

as we live trying never to hate

but that seems to be our fate

we try to make peace

but we end up piece by piece

we know no longer where to start

as we can’t but part

we are in distress

passing through stress

trying to express

our agony, as our injuries  we dress

we lament

lying in torment

as our families are now gone

and we’ve become lone

alone, we are in a crowd

we are no longer proud

we are dying just by lying

with eyes wide open sighing

SOMEDAY SOMEWAY

Someday someway
Things will become as clear as clay
Shining and ever-crescent
Beyond an evanescent

Someday someway
Will be the sun’s ray
Overshadowing all I had to pay
To reach my destined day

Someday someway
Things will come to bare
In a way so rare
That I will no longer fear

Someday someway
I’m waiting for that day
When it will come
Lovingly to my home