Tag: Love

  • Great Talk by Eli Oko

    Great Talk by Eli Oko

    Please excuse these tears They do not reflect my inner most feelings As deep and desperate they may seem Inside I am jumping for joy Because my concern has always been your happieness Your happiness has always been my thought And my thought and has always been you Not in the way every person may wish…

  • Guidelines by Eli Oko

    Guidelines by Eli Oko

    Not everything must stay in its guidelines you can watch truth spill over the edges Lies filling the gaps of love Willing to break free or at least break revealing true colours To be put back into the cage it came in We are a generation of unboxing Love that grows on trees Branches that snap…

  • XXIII Parts by Eli Oko

    XXIII Parts by Eli Oko

    Now I’m left to live with everything new to me Or will they drown, die off and return to dust These body parts that are supernumerary. Your love brought on changes I never expected to fashion These extras I had to learn to cope with These parts I had to fathom 23 to be exact…

  • Sky by Eli Oko

    Sky by Eli Oko

    I think I know why he walked away We didn’t grow apart Our eyes were precisely aligned Our future was quite on time We didn’t talk ourselves out of anything We spoke loads about tomorrow But we didn’t forget about today He always whispered sweet nothings into my ears And never wanted me to change…

  • XXIII Waterfalls by Eli Oko

    XXIII Waterfalls by Eli Oko

    I was supposed to see the pretty things in life Joy abundant like waterfalls overflowing in my days I was supposed to be able to say “I love you” in more than 23 ways I had plans for this moment Like dreams I made real I knew what I was supposed to do Exactly how…

  • Answered Prayer by Eli Oko

    Answered Prayer by Eli Oko

    I have a man. I have a man that looks at me as if he is reading me his favorite book he will never put down each line he explores, over and over and over again he loves each page as his eyes follow its story his fingers trace down the spine he loves my…

  • Broken Pieces of Time by Eli Oko

    Broken Pieces of Time by Eli Oko

    I waited so long for you to come in I began to see the cracks in time I waited so long that now I prefer to see you on the other side – EO   We lost the power to dictate each other’s lives a long time ago To say what we want, what we…

  • The Futures History by Eli Oko

    The Futures History by Eli Oko

    We are clothed in tomorrow’s outfit And today we dance For yesterday’s lessons We celebrate yesterdays trials Because they are todays reward And become the futures history.  

  • The 1st by Eli Oko 

    The 1st by Eli Oko 

    And I prayed that my prayer be heard. As he mentioned all the reasons I felt we should walk away  He concluded that he didn’t know what to say But I felt the letters form in my mouth of what we should do And as they bubbled forth I looked up to my patchy ceiling…

  • Learning to ride a bike by Eli Oko

    Learning to ride a bike by Eli Oko

    Don’t let go of me  I kept repeating the words in my mind  Because all I could imagine was being left alone  To experience without training  To have support and then none at all  I didn’t want to imagine noone beside me  I kept my eyes focused on my destination just like you suggested  But…