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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE (By Henry Dike)

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  TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE by Henry Dike When will you stop this? When will the lies stop? Why do you attempt to fly when you can only hop? For how long will you lie to everybody? For how much longer can you sustain the pretence? You say you are a lion, but I look closer You are a cat, a disowned pet cat, close to a loser You say you are a big fish, a humongous whale I look closer, you are one sardine, chased by a piranha With your grammar you claim to be a P.H.D holder Coming closer it was discovered you are a moulder Of bricks, without whom the house will not be this ready Several lexicons are there, from which you dish out the words You claim to know everyone who matters around here and there Yet you are alone, always I see you alone, lost to every form of care The unseen one alone whom you appear not to at all know But whose presence is ubiquitous, knows you through and through Am I the only one that can see how special you are in heart? Am I the only one that c...
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Is there really an obstacle on our way?

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Dear friends, do you know that obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal;  if you stay focus, you will see that they are only opportunities in disguise!  You do not lack strength, you lack the will.  Never give up on what you really want to do! kill procrastination; this has been your undoing for a long while.  The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Take that action now! Wake up!  Listen, you are a product of the choices you make, not the circumstances that you face!  Have a fulfilled day!!  #calmdown#staysafe#worksafe
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How to Pronounce 'Heir'

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How to pronounce 'Laud'

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See The Lizard and Learn

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See the Lizard and Learn ( by Henry Dike)  I have been on His neck, I have consistently asked Many times I have probed, severally have I entreated In various tongues, in many places, have I sought This one, this special, this only one favour From Him who asked me to ask to be given To seek carefully, so as to find To knock hard, so as to be heard and obliged I have asked for long and getting tired And thought to stop asking. Today I saw a sign in church: The sign of the lizard, I read the sign silently aloud The morning was cold, the church was colder Following the wetness of yester-night I saw them, the flying termites Circling feebly around the fluorescent tubes Warming themselves, listening to the Reverend Distracting me, oblivious of my stare Below them was a lizard, looking up at them Not speaking, not moving, not bothered Not paying attention to the preacher Only looking up, and waiting, and waiting For breakfast, that seemed far away It was a long w...
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I Want My Mama - A Voice in Crèche

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  I WANT MY MAMA (By Maryprecious Dike) What is this new place? Why is everywhere so strange? What am I doing here? Where is my sweet mama? Why can’t anybody understand me? And why are they all trying to carry me As if they are my mama? I know my mama Where is my sweet mama? Who are these people? Ok, I will continue to cry, wail, roll on the ground I will not eat this new food, this strange food, Give me my sweet mama She has my ‘sweet food’, ‘two very sweet food’ What are they even saying, I will cry louder Why are the other children not complaining It must be that strange food, I won’t eat it I want my ‘two food’ with my mama Don’t sing to me, your voice is not sweet Like my mama’s; go away! Don’t tickle me with your rough fingers I am hungry; I am angry; give me my mama! Why am I in this cloth like other children? Remove it, weather is hot, remove everything What is that one writing on the board? What is all this when I can’t even talk? What do I ...
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Failure

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 Failure (by Henry Dike) A friend to nobody, A desire of no person breathing, Yet everyone has shared in your lesson Of life; daily lesson, different for every person.  Like a stern teacher you teach, Consuming pints of blood like a witch, Like an assassin you execute your preys As an incurable cancer you eat through without fray. I challenge the dead and the living Who has not had an encounter with failure sting? Speak up now and forever openly acclaim yourself a liar In your heart and in your cold tomb which you will retire. Failure has sent many to early graves Failure has changed many names to ‘Failure’ Failure has changed fleshy hearts to stony hearts Failure has even made 'angels' be fiendish demon's carts. But failure has made boys, men and women, tougher, Failure is like a four-wheel drive on plains that are rougher, Failure has created never imagined paths in virgin savannahs; Failure made many conquerors, riding with kingly banners. So, what...
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