Nigerian Writer: Love Embrace

By Felix Brambaifa

I will wrap you in warm embrace

And evoke emotions in pleasurable ways

To make each moment a tale of its own

To prove that love can sometimes be written on stone

Together our chapters shall break bounds

Transgressing beyond limits and confines

To speak for itself where love is no more

Erupting the amorous waters in that arid shore

The whispers shall make rumors spread

Our details, its flame through gossips be fed

As if it were the endemic fires of choleras

Asked to abate, not by potions but prayers

Surely our fame shall linger through time

And become pleasing like natures rhyme

All because your love charitably was forged

And my hearts reciprocity could not be grudged

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Nigerian Writer: Spirit

Felix O Brambaifa

What path must undoubtedly lead there

Such as the mystics once knew

Embraced by the ambitions of man

But known only by the diligent few

Some proclaim its content be

The scriptural confusions of priests

Whose ranting can unveil nothing

But their hunger during religious feasts

Man no longer behold the answers within

Because the illusions of appearance beckons

He calls the manifestations of change, miracle

Because of ignorance, the crown of his treasures

      The road is assuredly within

      From whence all can be clearly seen

Stop this foolish unholy parade

Of being constantly contrite and above faults

For it is against the patterns we were made

To walk our trials upon Gaia’s face

Our errors made are truly ordained

The mirror to verify our innate deficiencies

Not the mortal sin our souls so stained

Must beg cleansing from the great above

In humility not guilt we must stand

Even when misconduct seems to prevail

The purpose is of a transcendental kind

Of which through failures perfection becomes

        The source God is but only spirit

        And through spirit him we shall meet

In prepared silence we must all call out

Not to the assumed falsities of clergies

Whose concerns are powers over others

But to spirit, aloof all mortal vices

The concealed cause of our existence

The surest bridge to that great yonder

Obstinate before man’s spurned confusions

Above that which mans ignorance can plunder

It was through spirit the path was forged

Through spirit the celestial pact eternally made

Through spirit can we find the source God

And into spirit we must return when time do fade

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Nigerian Writer: How Could I?

By Felix Brambaifa
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Many years chronicler of our tryst
When our communion held sway
The particulars of that great warmth
Whose fires kindled without delay

It was on that ordained dawn
Our paths interfused became one
As if by Cupids very injunction
Our heart into a synthesis was born

The timidity of youth before you faltered
As my guts made torrents of affirmations
To make glaring the brewing passion within
In words to express without any confusions

But all was to the merit of time
As your honor spoke of that ancient flame
Whose embers your will had once consented
That now an hindrance it was to my claim

Seasons it met, the measurement of my quest
With efforts of love my heart perpetuated its course
Like a mermaid against the current of the waves
Though persistent, it was without the barbarity of force
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Then a day only the gods could have prompted
The momentums of your heart you made plain
The very reciprocity to my claims you permitted
And a new chapter of warmth thus enacted

What pledge shall concretize my solemn oaths
To stay the turbulence which in suddenness do sprout?
What will to quell the passions that do demotes
Loves resilience before the perfidy from wanton lust?

Though now I may lack the answers I seek
But through you shall no mystery abound
For when into the limpid streams of your heart I peek
I behold strength, beyond that which is deceit

So let tomorrow come if it must
And to trial put this union we cherish
Then I swear we shall kiss not the dust
Or through pains our love come to perish

For you have become that enduring love
The constant flame within my heart
And my answers to prayers from above
To this end how could I possibly forget?

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