How Can I?

How can I? 
How can I not be my self? 
In a world where I cannot be anyone else? 
How can I not do my best? 
In a world where I cannot do everything? 
How can I? 
How can I not love myself? 
In a world where only few love me? 
How can I not serve others? 
In a world where nothing lasts forever? 
How can I? 
How can I not speak the truth? 
In a world where lies enslave the heart? 
How can I not seek peace? 
In a world where everything seem broken? 
How can I? 
How can I not wait for my turn? 
In a world where time rules? 
How can I take what is not mine? 
In a world where there is enough for everyone? 
How can I? 
How can I not be humble? 
In a world where pride comes before shame? 
How can I not be kind? 
In a world where givers never lack? 
How can I? 
How can I be weak? 
In a world where only the strong survive? 
How can I

Achieve It...

When your mind conceives it,
If your heart believes in it,
Then your hands can achieve it

If it is still in the conceive stage it is called a dream.
If you put it in context, it becomes a goal.
If you clearly outline it, you call it a plan.
When you do what the plan says, it's called action
And when your actions reap results, you call them reality.

So if you can, please go ahead and dream big,
Clarify it so you can have a goal
Break it down to have a clear plan
Put the plan in action right a way
And you shall see the reality
Of what your mind conceived,
What your heart believed
And how your hand achieved it.

Destined to be More

Million eyes shall see it,
Billion ears shall hear it
And many tongues shall say it
That you are what you say you are
That you are the product,
Of a really great work done
That you are the hero
Who rose from ground zero
That you are the man
Who made everything from nothing
They shall loud it out,
On top of the mountains
Reaching the depths of the valleys
And your enemies shall multiply
Because your fortunes shall increase
Your fight shall get harder,
Your friends shall reduce in number
And yet, you shall get stronger
Because you know what?
You are destined to be more.

© 2018 Simon K. Amu

Mysterious Death

Death, oh mighty death!
How mysterious your reign on earth,
That nothing living today can miss,
No wonder, you have earned your name
How cruel of you?
How unmerciful of you!
And how aggressive of you!
You alone takes what belongs not to you,
But yet, goes scot-free
You alone honors invitation not extended to you
You break the heart of people
Yet still, you answers to no man
You have no respect for age nor class
And the victims you prey on seem defenseless
Against your painful sting
You are deaf to the plea of the innocent
Reaping where you never sowed
You are like the thief that comes in the night
To steal what's dear to the heart of its owners
You destroy families and species
And you are the prime threat to our survival

Please there is only one thing you must know,
You can't continue like this forever
There is a Force that transcends your abilities
Your time of reign shall soon come to pass
And you shall be dead, like really dead
You shall be dead never to die again
And the human family will live never die again

© 2017 Simon K. Amu
@dzidefodepoet

Free We...

I have a sea of desires.
To be great and to do great things
But I need a seed of passion
To ignite the flames in me
And burn my sea of desires

I have a mountain ahead to climb
To get to see further than beyond
But I need a hell lot of calories to burn
To keep the blood hot and boiling
When the climbing gets tougher

I dream of a stream to cross,
To reach the land I am destined to
But I need a guide to the quest
To keep my eyes on and my heads up
Even when revolutions come

Perseverance will be my key,
In my endeavor to elevate the street
I will try to use my head and my hand
To free myself and my fellows
From our mental servitudes

@dzidefodepoet
©2017

We Are Lost

We are lost in the blue...
Not in the blue of the sky above or of the ocean below
But we are lost in the blue of this age's miseries
Hoping and praying for the second coming of everything

Some time ago, my grandma will say,
These are not very good times to stray
You need the shield of the Messiah
And it's why you need a check on your desire

I have been searching since, for my lost self
Hoping to come by that very inscription
To interpret what my true identity is
But I am still the lost youth I have long learnt to be

I thought I needed the compass to traverse my space
But I have seen even the military leaving no trace
I tried to look into the oldest and newest dictionaries
Yet, here I am with my pills donated by mercenaries

Don't turn to media reports in search of your lost selves
You are like no other, stay true to your good selves
Do not survive on what makes you lose yourselves
But turn to the walls that separates you from your other selves

We are all buried in our own fears of being inadequate
But the truth is, what's in us is much bigger than we estimate
Let's be not too worried about what we lack
Because we have is more than what we have lost

We are taking a deeper look into ourselves
So we can unravel the hidden concepts
This age is not in favor of the less privileged
But we are not stopping until we break every odd

The Tales of a Street Youth

I was told to learn to make it on my own
And it is the realest thing I have ever known

They say I am at liberty to dream as big as the Milky Way
But then, I will have to pave my very own way

The street is not just my home, though here I keep all what I own
It's where I have lived all my life, with my flesh and bone

Many call me names both to my credit and discredit
But I am more concerned about my scrip for edit

I have a different story to tell the generations to come.
I begun long time ago and this' how far I have come

From the getho where I was born and grown,
Where I have seen many slip down the throne

On your way through this age's wilderness,
In my shoes, you have more to lose than to gain

To make it in my world, you must be one in a million
And to keep it, you must be the first among the chosen

But those are not reasons enough for me to let go,
Especially, not when I still feel the need to flow

My case is not one you'll love to hear, not here
So I will keep the lead on the rest until a better year.

Through It All...

The street is not a place, you can just survive
It's mean for the fittest of the fittest to thrive
It's not a free sky for the birds to dive
You really must be in charge of your drive

The street is the place for the forsaken; the unwanted
It's where you find the shattered dreams; abandoned faiths
And it's also where you find the hopes
The hopes that have lost their opes

The street is a ruin; a mega mine ready to explode
Because we feel too much pain and suffering;
Too much violence and insecurity reloaded
And many have lost themselves in the offerings

But through it all, we will thrive to higher heights
To the ends only variants can reach from where we start
We will defile odds and redefine boundaries
And we will be okay like the clouds in the sky.

Through it all, we shall refuse to defuse
The sense of togetherness we feel
And through the pain and the sufferings,
We shall be called victors; the survivors. 

Street Credibility

I dispute those who despise the street youth
Because I believe we hold the key to our root

None of us chose to be less privileged,
The society and our leadership is to blame

The scorn and the mobs, I am not sure how long we can bear
Though I have seen many rise to the top every year

And that's what we call street credibility
It's the highest form of inspiration available to the youth

To see brothers reaching their dreams after the struggle
Means everything to the youths in the gethos

That's what gives many of us the courage
To keep fighting for survival in this core age

On the street, until you become a stand out,
You are never going to be given the credible stout

The challenge you face everyday should make you stronger
Because being strong is all you need to keep longer

Street credibility is what many of us are fighting for
So my brother and my sister, go get what you are looking for

Let's put a stop to crime and bury the hatchets
Because together we fall and together we rise

We must defend the street with our very last breath
That's where we live, it's the only home of our own

Let's send the message out, to the uptown
About the challenge we are facing downtown

This is the only way we can claim what we've lost
Our credibility; our right to rise above mediocrity

DREAMS UNLIMITED

What I see when I sleep,

Sends me miles into the deep

Beyond the mountain's steep,

Where lays the poles in success' heap

What I see with my eyes looking,

Solves the puzzles long on my booking

And for the very same reason,

I keep surviving every season

There is a bell that keeps ringing

On my mind and in my heart clinking

Reminding me of the birds singing

Their melodies with hopeful meanings

I don't have to be anything but me

To dance in rhythms on the beat

To fight my battles on my feet

And wear the crown that feet me

I know we all see things in our sleep

But I can't tell if they're worth the keep

Or if they're worth the fights in our clips

So I let them pass piece by piece in peace

Then I turn to the things I can really see

With prayer to The Father never seen

And though I am sometimes at sea,

I still see the lights from the bluefields

Yes, I do dreams, but I do it without limit

I see it, I follow it and I believe in it

And then I act to make the ends meet

Because at last, I am in charge of my fit

You have the power to be powerful

Just believe in your dreams unlimitedly

The most sophisticated tool you can ever find

Is nothing more than your feeble mind

No matter how far you go in your dreams,

You still wake up right where you lay

So let your dreams not be what you see in your sleep

But what keeps you up and running into the deep

Dreams are unlimited and they are edified

They need to be ignited for they are dignified

Dreams have no substitutes or contenders

And they are not institutes for pretenders

Simon K. Amu (DzideFo)

©2016

NEVER GIVE UP

Now is not the time....

Not the time to frighten out

Rather you tighten up your stout

Than drown in your pool of fear

Because there is a price to pay

For whatever success you account

It takes the tough to survive

To survive the struggle and dive

The deepest depth

And flip the success pages?

So gird yourself strong

To correct whatever wrong

Giving up is not a choice

That's accepted by your inner voice

You let yourself drown into that pool

And you end up a rotten wool

Just never let go of whom you are

Because of the advents you must dare

Never give up on your limits

Because you are stronger than you think

You keep asking the questions

And keep searching for the answers

But in everything that you do,

You've got to fight your own fights

One thing you must remember,

No one was born to slumber

Another thing you must remember

You're the best to fight your combat

So you must be very real

Get knocked down, get up back again

When the going goes wrong,

All you must do is be strong

Because life continues for the living

No matter the misgivings

That's why despite the backbites

You still must aim higher with your spikes

 

Yes, you must aim high in everything

Dream as big as the Milkyway

Pursue her like a prey after its victim

Because for whatever reason, you must win

You are the head of your universe

And you so much deserve the best ever

Persevere to be revered

Stay alive to be revived

Fight on to ultimate victory

And march on to your divine glory

But whatever that happens

You should keep your edges sharpened

Now is never the time to give up

No matter how dark the tunnel is

You have unlimited potentials

To unleash your essentials

So while you still see the signals

Shift your gears to the maximum

It takes you to break odds

Just believe in the living God

Keep your grips tight

Or else, you'd miss the light

To those who chose to win

Giving up is a foreign concept

So never ever give up the fight

If victory is what for, you aspire