Journey through pain is a collection of poems with themes of love, belief, life lessons, slavery, Pan-Africanism, political and environmental struggles, bad governance, killing of an ogoni by the federal government and death.
From the book:
REMINDER
Fear not death and live your life
Maybe if only your heart is evil
Respect all Religion
Respect others decisions
Follow your path with all sincerity
Do justice to whatever the wind brings
Add beauty to your life while you're alive
Cos worry is an old lorry that won't survive
Do not die before your death
Neither while you're breathing
Let the weak become your responsibility
Let your service reflect your Religion
Let forgiveness remake your heart
As change and flux remakes the world
Grow truth on your lips
Trouble no one
Fear no one
Always wait for time
Never abuse the land you harvest from
Never flatter for deception
Let Love be your addiction
Let faith be your drive
The day comes with a new message
Listen more than you speak
For in silence, a lot is heard
Do the good work but pray
For prayer also is action
Let your name go before you
Let your name stay after you
For this alone we have.
I'M AFRICAN
I'm African,
Permit me to rewind life or go back
That life started from black
Black is my tone
Black is my bone
Black is my source
Black my resource
Black is my world
Black are my words
Pardon my black repetition
Pardon my black emotions
From black dust I was made
Wore black attitude like pomade
It doesn't change me
They call us vultures
Talk down our culture
They call us apes
That we live in caves
We're proud Monkeys
Our pride is the key
Vandalized our tradition
Material objects for commission
They pollute our sanity
With colorless inanity
Blind folded our community
Introduction of disunity
Engaged us with chains
Weeping crude in pains
Official manipulation
Made blur our perception
Entanglement with our females
Corruption came through the email
Catalyst of racism
Possessed my people with nepotism
Naked genocism
Incessant criticism
Pain was our tribulation
Black is our redemption
Revolutional emancipation
Nelson Mandela's evolution
Kwame Nkrumah's loath for tribalism
Generational Pan-Africanism
A strive for the African kingdom
To earn indigenous freedom
Our strength assisted civilization
Realizational constipation
We grow from monkeys to panthers
Large capacity for banters
Genetic antique
Our ways are unique
Black is our truth
Black is our root
Black are our values
Black is our muse
Black is our wildlife
Even in next life
I'm African.
