I know

Dark was the day and gloomy the night

When lives of youths who for their right

Raised their voices with unbridled passion

Met their doom while on their civil mission

They die helplessly on our street

Unprepared, yet long eternity to meet.

Oh that our white flag means peace

Oh that our national identity remained unstained 

We would have walk and work with ease

But for the massacre we are pained

When will thou arise and shine

And put on your purple and wine

Let it not be later

But rise now, Father of fathers

To help the nation whom though loveth 

For I know, HE liveth.

✍🏽 David Olumide (Beloved)

HEIRS

Father of many children;

Jews, Gentiles, even heathen,

Although since caused a breach in Eden;

Yet willing to call them brethren. 

Sacrifice of animals could not do;

Atonement with birds, calf and bull,

Not a pinch of sin could be moved;

So the old testament need to be removed.

Then came the first born;

He died and left the veil torn,

Giving us access to the Father as son;

Joint heirs with Jesus made us one.

✍🏽 David Olumide (Beloved)

IN A MOMENT

Christian  life is a marital journey, 

Christ being the husband and man, wife;

Upon the cross He paid her dowry,

At the cross man surrenders her life,

In a moment man and God becomes one!

Daily she is tempted and persecuted,

He (Christ) also suffered for her;

Unanswered prayers sometimes made her wonder,

Lo, here comes her comforter,

In a moment her sorrow is gone!

Hated in the world she lives,

Comforted by the word she believes; 

Expecting her Lord she loves so dear,

Labouring for the harvest so near,

In a moment the trumpet will sound!

In a moment the Lord will come,

In a moment the saints will be gone,

In a  moment comes our final redemption,

In a moment we shall die no more,

Living and reigning before the Father's throne!

✍🏽 David Olumide (Beloved)

GRACE FOR GRACE

 

If the world's currencies were combined 

To pay the price of my sin so great

Still for the wages-death will I repine 

Grace for grace never to be ingrate 

Found its way into my poor heart

Restored God's light never to depart

All dues paid by the worldwide saviour 

Bringing mankind into God's favour 

That all may share with his neighbour

What only God's grace can afford

Not by man's finite and feeble effort

For the Living Spirit bears us record 

Changed by grace to live and pray

Revived by grace the Spirit to obey

That we may no longer be a prey

To him whose territory we assay

Subduing the flesh day by day

Grace for grace to tread the Holy highway.

✍🏽 S. Olumide David (Beloved)

HEIRS HOME

#WritcoPoemPrompt13

Filtering rays of sunshine,

Brighten up my day,

My heart swells with hope and pride,

Keen for the glories coming my way...

I shall sing hallelujah all the way

My soul and spirit love to dwell

I'll cross the bridge

I'll go up yonder

© oladecious

GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN

 I see the reflection of my happiness,

In your eyes,

Picture perfect,

Like a bouquet of posies,

Like a sky full of sunshine...

Defining my journey aforetimes,

Prologue of heaven,

Heaven on Earth.

I hear the reverb of choruses,

Hallelujah over there,

Someday I'll be there,

There my heart belongs,

No moth nor destroys,

Like a gold tried in fire...

The dawn of anaphoras,

How joy rankshifts sorrows

To dust someday I'll bid farewell

I see the transparency of my heart,

In your words,

Pure  purity,

With a blink, past becomes histories

I'll be transformed with a glimpse,

Just a blink, I am home

To dust someday I'll bid farewell

In you I love to dwell

My home I destroy for a better home,

The cross I built upon

For a better home I'll live,

To the dust when I'll bid farewell

© adeolaoguntibeju

LIFE

FENCE OF FEATHERS

Ideas were itching in mind

One to another we table

Sincerity unites in truth

On to another we lean

But a lean on FEATHER

In a cloak of pillar 

Count on us they chorused

We'll guide you through

You need change they chant

Put us in we'll Change

But a change to worse

In the beauty of charisma

Who guide but the blind

As prototype of his in anticipation

Walk before me 

And be thou perfect

We did in a tunnel

We are lost

©Adeola Precious Oguntibeju

Brainy

The following combination of letters represent a sentence from which one particular VOWEL has been removed if you can figure out what that vowel is and reinsert it 11 times in 11 different places you will be able to determine what the sentence is saying:

VRYFINXMP

LARXCDSW

HATWXPCT

Now, figure out what the vowel is and make a statement from this scrambled letters. Take a few minutes to think before posting

Source: Successor Generation Scholar

LEEWAY

How will I enter 
When all are choristers
Pitching high in silence
Wearing smiles of faces
Their piece I listen in attention
Rhythm like the hiss of adder
Song of freedom I thought.
Pains as stanza agony as chorus,
Gay as coda.
Conductor they will but not disobey 
'ducting stanzas, chorus and coda.
Bewildered I gaze as one unconscious
Why will I enter and celibate