Plan Poems
The True Winners
by Ololade Raji
Still astonished by the deceit for vanities
And surprised by the frivolities of assumed fortunes
Fortunes at the price of integrity and the cost of lives
Those who wants it all, may have all but in a twinkle, lose all
For us, we remain forlorn hitherto humble!
With notes of deceit, they bought things and time
Armed with their pernicious game without Your plans
Fervently painting with lacklustre hues, a pseudo picture of an assumed future
Yet with a sordid gloom, they expect a candescent glow
......
The Tragedy of Strategies
by Ololade Raji
If only we could squint to see the future
And could count our teeth with our tongues
Maybe we will understand why the minute fairyflies
Outlived the colossal dinosaurs we met not
If only we could smell our own stench
And could laugh hard enough to douse the village gelede band
Maybe we will understand why the prince could cook for the village
But when the village cooks for the prince, he fishes in troubled waters
......
The True Winners
by Ololade Raji
Still astonished by the deceit for vanities
And surprised by the frivolities of assumed fortunes
Fortunes at the price of integrity and the cost of lives
Those who wants it all, may have all but in a twinkle, lose all
For us, we remain forlorn hitherto humble!
With notes of deceit, they bought things and time
Armed with their pernicious game without Your plans
Fervently painting with lacklustre hues, a pseudo picture of an assumed future
Yet with a sordid gloom, they expect a candescent glow
......
The Tragedy of Strategies
by Ololade Raji
If only we could squint to see the future
And could count our teeth with our tongues
Maybe we will understand why the minute fairyflies
Outlived the colossal dinosaurs we met not
If only we could smell our own stench
And could laugh hard enough to douse the village gelede band
Maybe we will understand why the prince could cook for the village
But when the village cooks for the prince, he fishes in troubled waters
......
