By Abubakar Sulaiman Muhd @mallamabubakaar Suraj Tunji Oyewale’s ‘The Road…

‘My Name is Love’ and Other Poems by Odion
My Name is Love
I have acknowledged
My strength
I am that book that is
Worth reading.
I am that life that is
Worth knowing.
I am that sea that is
Worth exploring
I still give a shoulder
To who needs it.
I still give a hug
To the broken.
I still give a smile
To the sad one
My name is care.
My name is happy.
My name is love.
© Odion Izegwire
This Pain…
This pain I feel
This pain I have accepted
This pain I understand
This pain I can handle
This pain will soon leave
This pain knows I am strong
This pain knows I have inner strength
This pain I will soon laugh at
This pain will soon be a story to tell
This pain will make me a stronger me.
© Odion Izegwire
You Stabbed Me Where I am Bleeding
As the stabber stabbed again and again
On that spot where I’m already bleeding
As I get another stab to the bone on my ribs
As I get another stab with a syringe
Repeated in my left eye
I say to me,
Do not weep.
I have been stabbed just enough to
Break the skin more often,
That slow pressure
Until there is no blood
Really hurts,
But I say to me,
Do not weep.
Even when that knife is
Plunged into me,
Even when the blood
Refuses to stop gushing,
Even when I get that
Very hard punch,
I still say to me,
Do not weep
I understand this storm
Is mine,
And I am brave enough
To enter it.
I am strong enough to wrap the
Size of my waves in my palms.
I am brave enough to still
Give the stabber a smile.
© Odion Izegwire
She is Her Own Hero
This heart of hers
Will never hate you,
No matter how much
You hurt it.
She has got so much
Love to give,
So much light
To shine.
She thanks her Lord
For the grace that is
Making her remain kind.
She thanks her Lord
For the heart that is
Making her remain calm.
Her walk,
Full of grace.
Her smiles,
Full of sweetness.
Her life
Full of purpose.
She is always in
Love with her soul
She is thunder
Not the kind you hide from
But the kind you run to
She is blind towards
Hatred and negativity.
She is the light, radiant,
And her heart like
The full moon brimming
On an inclement night.
© Odion Izegwire
Thanks so much …. I really do feel honoured
Thumbs up for your good work my brother.
May the work of your hands be blessed and may your intentions be purified….