MY THOUGHTFUL POEMS by Salau O John

The Dead poet

I lay my words in books 
A thousand years to come 
And I wonder how then it will look 
For so many years had come and gone

 

For friends, unseen, unborn, and unknown 
For students of sweet English tongue 
Read out my words at night alone 
I was a poet, I was young

 

Will Christ had come, gone, I know not 
But this I lay for your unseen face 
To say my world was fought, nothing bought 
I send my soul through time and space

I give a lesson to brood my death 
It was a hearty cry of standing unknown 
So if you a poet did feel my belt 
I pray you; open the light I’ve sown 
I die not this death alone at home 
But the time will come all things sow 

Salau O John©2010

 

My Unknown Child
I wish I had been carefree 
For then would I have had you? 
But then my plans will pine you 
For the world is wild you see

 

I lay you a lesson to learn 
If at all you came through somebody else 
Understand many questions are unanswered bend 
And know that your future you must plan

 

I could have been great in my talent 
But procrastination, no plan bar me 
The world would have been my vent 
But the mouth and walk, astride I rent

 

So if you do come to see 
I wailed in that I wished I’d done 
But for a lesson I flay you this 
Plan, work, be merry, and let none hold thee 
For nothing is worth something without plan 
And many merry erring in the land 

Salau O John©2010

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