Author: Benjamin Nambu
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Mirror
An isolated mind Breeding grounds for illusions Go live among people Hear stories See for yourself And see your illusions wilt And reality taking their place No one will tell you To bundle your illusions And cast them into the sea
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Pass it on
She cannot read She cannot write Imagine the wealth of potential Locked behind her walls Of illiteracy If you can read this Help another to see
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Brighter day
No food Rent Failing health Overwhelming debts No job Painful breakup Lonely Feel left behind Discouraged… Stay calm Keep calm There’ll be a brighter day
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I will tell you something
Whatever you are passionate about, be at it everyday, constantly improving yourself. Be it writing, acting, dressmaking, soap making, photography or catering, find new ways of becoming better at what you do everyday. Don’t let anyone look down on what you do. No matter how ordinary your job might seem, no matter how insignificant what…
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Ripe girls
Love mailed me her glances I hadn’t learnt to read To read her signs The same glance Kept coming In different persons I couldn’t I couldn’t see The message Boldly written On each opportunity One day whiles gleaning lessons From the footprints of time I came across a plantation of ripe girls Seeds of love’s…
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Adventures within
With outstretched arms Planes fly over my head To embrace Lands I have never seen I stare silently At the giant air sharks Across the sky Sailing away Far away I head home Saddened by visions of adventures I cannot afford Oblivious To adventures within No plane can see or reach No matter how high…
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Stay
Quit, if you can take it no longer. But, don’t forget one thing: this relationship can work if you are truly willing to give it all it will take. Give up on your daily hustle for a better tomorrow, if the pain is too much to bare. But, there’s one thing you would have missed:…
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With the little you have
Do you see so much around you and feel there is so little you can do? Injustice, discrimination, poverty, unemployment, social vices eating away the potential of young people, children growing up in broken homes. Perhaps all you can do in the midst of all these issues plaguing your world is to be there for…
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Be greedy
Constantly seek new ways of making more money, even if what you have seems enough. Never be content. Desire more. Be greedy. Be jealous. Be envious. Not the kind of greed that paints others black and seeks to kill them to take their place. But the kind that watches others closely to discover the secret…
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A path calls me
I was born running Running with the masses In a race to nowhere And in the middle of nowhere A path calls me Something about this path Like a piece of me has journeyed it before Naked, Unashamed of labels Of being perverse, odd, wild and unruly.
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