The warmth of your embraceI’ll never knowThe reassurance of your embraceI’ll never knowThe experience of your presenceI’ll never knowYour physical presenceI’ll never knowYour absence in my existenceIs all I know What is it likeI’ll never knowThe piggy back ridesI’ll never knowWhat it would be likeI’ll never knowTeaching me to rideI’ll never knowBalance on a bikeI’ll…

I don’t like itHow you treat meI don’t like itHow you try to control meI’m over it Can’t you leave me aloneEven when am goneYou won’t leave aloneJust let be am done Can’t I love who I chooseCan’t I live as l pleaseIf I can’t live in peaceCan I at least leave in peace Why…

Are mine children of a lesser godIn the to do list their needs just odds and sodsUnimportant in the national agenda their oddsAre stacked against them unless I prodFor answers that are not forthcomingI can’t overdo it not if I know what’s comingMuzzled restrained a prisoner is what am becomingIn my own land what are…

I look at you looking at meI watch you watching meI can tell you are judging meWithout knowing meYou are judging me With my mini me’s you’re judgingYou talk about them judgingYour condescending tone dishearteningThe disapproving looks cut deep disconcertingYour insensitive snarky remarks crushingYour unsolicited parenting advice is judging You must be happy you’ve got…

Where is the beatThe talking drum beatThe African drum beat Where is the beatThe rhythm beatThe African drum beat Where is the beatThe dancing beatThe African drum beat Where is the beatA child is born sound the beatThe African drum beat Where is the beatMy boy is a man sound the beatThe African drum beat…

Why did you leaveYou are my mom how could you leaveNine months inside and you left I can’t believeYou could just get up and go, just leaveWhy did you leave What is it about me you couldn’t standWas it my crying you couldn’t standWhat was it you really couldn’t standThat made you just pack up…

You chose to open your legsYou chose to let him plant his pegYou were happy when he was sowing his seedYou were ecstatic to bring forth his seed So why now you take it out on meI didn’t ask you to have meYour beef with him doesn’t concern meCan you sort it without using me…

An optimist wants to see hopeChooses to see hopeBelieves there’s is hopeEncourages hope An optimist wants to see goodChooses to see goodBelieves there’s is goodHopes in others there’s good An optimist feels a bit moreWishes they could do a bit moreTries to do a bit moreHopes the good would prevail a bit more An optimist…

For this my cuntryMy people I worryThe chief muppetIs pinching even the alphabetLook at what he’s turned this jointWe call our motherland That’s what he’s done to this nationMy God things he’s done to this nationThe moral degradationThe ongoing molestationOf the  nation’sResources is beyond imagination They steal without shameTheir graft has brought us fameThe kind…

So I have been the voice of this persona in an anthology as Rimanto with different other poets voicing different characters. Rimanto is a very beautiful girl youthful and endowed in all the right areas to capture the attention of the male specimens in her village.News of her beauty have travelled far and wide and…