God for a day

If you were God for a day

Would you make a world like this?

One where everything needs everything else

One where we all enter innocent

… bloody

… blameless and clueless

 

Would you create man …

Forty weeks in the making

Nine months undertaking

Would you give man so much freedom?

Bestow him with free will

Free to the extent that he can choose …

To believe in you

… Or not

Free enough to reject you

… to your face

Free to a point of being selfish

… man eat man society

Where the rich gets richer

And the poor man has no one to feed him

 

Would you make rivers flow

… from mountains downstream

Only for man to polute them

Deposit industrial waste in your streams

Then place the blame on you

… for cholera, typhoid, dysentery 

for all his poor choices

… the consequences

 

If you were God for a day

Would the devil freely roam?

Would hurricanes be

How about earthquakes

… landslides

… farmine

… deseases

… drought

 

Would you give you own life

For an evil generation?

See your own creation crucify you like a crook

Like a sheep watch ’em lead you to the slaughter

Despice you, reject you, esteem you not?

Would you be wounded for their crimes?

Crushed for their iniquities

Labelled a man of sorrows

 

Would you call them your children?

Friends maybe?

Branches stemming from you?

Justified and redeemed?

More than conquerors?

Heirs with you son?

Would you call them saints?

A new creation?

Holy and blameless?

If you were God for a day

Would you save mankind?

Dream

If this is truly a dream
Then I don’t wanna wake up
Cos if I’m ever free
It’s only in my dreams
Only there I’m I poor bastard
That has so much to offer
It’s only there that this pain stops
And I get to really live
It’s only there that
I get to meet my private self
I get to see the child inside me dance
I get to ride wild horses
So let me and my dreams be,
Cos it does me more good than I’d ever say
It helps me live
It makes my broken heart whole
It seals my wounds
It covers all my scars
But I never forget
This is just but a temporary loan

@muchendujnr

night watch

It’s like a jungle

all we do is hustle

all we do is struggle

playing a bugle

we be like strangers as we mingle

hoping not to strangle

sharing jokes as we giggle

Food prices be high so we haggle

Perfecting the art so we smuggle

our ears on the police so they wiggle

Nights so cold and our bodies tingle

As we look out for those who seek to burgle

Written and signed with a squiggle!

@smuchendu

Behold … All things new!

I have a dream

In my dreams I dream of a place

Existing beyond the dimensions of both time and space

 

A place where actions don’t have consequences

And the choices don’t have repercussions

A place to which alone, no one can travel

Yet there exists a way

 

A place where there’s no more suffering

And there’s no more pain and affliction

A place where death doesn’t reside

Where tears are never shed

And no one ever bleeds

 

A place where we will neither marry,

Nor be given in marriage,

But we’ll be like the angels

 

Yes; I wanna go to that place

Where the family never gets hungry

Where nobody ever get sick

And the bodies never get weak

Where no children are born

Where nobody ever gets old

And the weather never gets cold

 

Yes, I have heard of a place

Where there is no sun

No moon and no sky

A place where there is no darkness

A place where everything is bright

And the ruler is the source light

 

Help me out; I’m looking for that place!

Where all that dwells is peace

And everyone’s heart is at ease

 

Who knows of that place?

Where the sun never gets hot

And the rivers never get dry

Where no one ever gets thirsty

And the weather never gets nasty

And the life is never hasty

 

 

Who has heard of that place?

That is governed by a spiritual rule

And only the spiritual beings dwell

 

Tell me, I want to know of that place

Where the Most high has established his throne

And the heavenly beings sing, dance and celebrate … all … day … long

 

Yes, I wanna know the means

Show me the way to that place

Point me to that direction

 

Let my lips taste of its water

Let my nose smell of its air

Let my ears listen to its music

Let my feet dance of it melody

Let my eyes see of its splendor

Let my fingers touch of it flowers

So soft and so tender

Let my feet step on its path

 

I dream of dwelling in that place

Show me how

How to get this skeptical mind of mine to believe

And let this treacherous heart to perceive

 

How to get this doubting brain to conceive

How to let this trembling spirit to receive

 

Yes I wanna go to that place; that place where no one can imagine what it’s like,

I wanna see that place; just like I read about it; that it will exceed our wildest imaginations.

I dream of the day that that place; will be revealed to each of us in glory

And he who is sited on the throne will say

Behold I am making all things NEW!

@muchendu

I give you power

With this pen

I give you the power

To read and be a writer

With sweat, blood and tears

Write honest open letters to whoever listens

And the best way is to write it here

…

Dear whoever has an ear

This is addressed to whoever, whenever, wherever

May you ingest the various rhymes and syllables

May the set of words be complete in themselves,

And the subject contained paint beautiful pictures

May it convey statements, exclamations and commands

….

Utterances of the Gospel

Written in expressions

Spoken in Psalms

Expressed in hymns

A chant of Praises

Signed, sealed and delivered by its author

Yours truly;

The owner of the pen.

anytime now …

I picture Christ coming back like a thief in the night

Coming in the same manner that the apostles long ago saw him go

In power and great glory
His untainted and holy vision eyes bright

Here comes the holy knight

In his head are many diadems and victory crowns

Riding a white horse

The sky cracks

Shaking the whole world with a force

Behold open wide is the heavenly doorway

Heaven’s armies arrayed in white linen
White and pure following Him on their white horses

The word of God from his mouth is a sharp sword
I’m glad to know that he could be coming back tonight!

On his shoulders …

Staring at the ceelin

In search of inspiration

Sometimes it feels dissapointin’

It feels like forever, since you’ve been gon’

Why did you have to be so far away for so long

If only we’d talk over the phon’

I’d let you know that I have a new companion

 

He’s my soul’s desire n passion

To him I have surrendered my everythin’

My weakness, my sickness n my broken

He carries them all on his factions

All on his shoulders, my renunciation

@smuchendu

In my own eyes

Son, you can be anything that you wanted to be; that’s what Daddy said

But to do that I needed to learn so he took me to school

There they taught me that education is the key

I observed that it was cloaked in books so I buried myself in ‘em,

All these years, I read, I recite and I re-count

However, I’m yet to answer my spawn’s questions

Where did God come from?

…

So I learnt to read, write and to compose

And from it I drew my greatest inspiration

In the wake of the night you can find me

In my isolated room

Lost in my poetic thoughts

I’m still writing this story that never ends

…

I’ve often likened my body to a cell

Largely because for some reason I can’t seem to make out my front door

Yet for some reason I can barely afford to live in it anymore

Ordinarily because of its location; A world of endless odds,

At dawn I turn on my lights and I become some sort of skyline that people envy

They assume that living here must be a privilege regardless of how defeated and beaten up I appear to be

Or how these walls seem like they want to crumble!

…

Daily, I make sure that my rent is paid

By taking in at least three meals

A few glasses of water;

A few hours of sleep

I exercise from time to time but the doctor said that I have to make it a habit

And just when I thought that that was enough

He said I have to eat more fruits and vegetables

I have to purge away negativity

…

In an effort to make sure that my rent is paid I have a regular 8-5 job,

I spend most of my time holed up in the office

Never stopping long enough to go out and have some fun.

Over the weekends, I’m all over running errands;

Making more money just to pay my rent

Seems like the cost of living in this apartment goes higher everyday

But besides my busy schedule I still find time to feed my addiction

In my nighttime turmoil I’m at it again

Putting my poetic thoughts on a piece of paper

Scribbling in my rhyme book in an secluded chamber

…

In my musing I came to the realization that I had a roommate

Or maybe he was always there

And just like I have always done

I started writing about him the best way that I know how

I observed that day by day he was occupying more space

He would push my loved ones away when he was in control

He made me feel hopeless and helpless

He was responsible for my lost interest in friends, activities, and things that I used to enjoy

He made me feel tired all the time, I would have sleepless nights and my appetite was poor

He made sure that I had a hard time concentrating and I couldn’t control my pessimistic thoughts, no matter how hard I tried

…

He convinced me that no one cared and he constantly reminded me that the pain was too much to bear

Since he came my friends said that I’d become more irritable,

I’m short-tempered, and aggressive

He became my dirty public secret that alcohol couldn’t drive away,

Sex couldn’t make okay;

Often times I would find myself on different beds, different drugs, different prescriptions

My brain is my work, but I am failing to control it

They said I struggle with depression

@smuchendu

On my way …

I wanna go to …

A place where there’s no more suffering

And there’s no more pain and affliction

A place where death doesn’t reside

And tears are never shed

A place where no one ever bleeds

And no one ever gets sick

A place that that has no hospitals

And no morgues exist either

I dream of dwelling in that place

Help me out; I’m looking for that place!

Where all that dwells is peace

And everyone’s heart is at ease

… muchendu

THE ONE

My orb was monstrous

So when we met I feared

It’d pull you into the disaster

Swallow and take you down

Down into my adversity

But instead

The discomfort fled

Away from you

From then I knew

You must be the one

The one to save me

My one and only

To complete me

I was a desperate wolf

Out in the cold,

In the frozen wastelands

Until you found me

 

smuchendu