GRATEFUL..!

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When all is said and done 

And the day is as usual

But with great personalities, it gives you reason to be grateful 

When life brings both the good and bad 

With each come a lesson they help us to grow 

And in our little corner we are bound to glow 

For such gift, one should be grateful 

When all help u to merry for a proportionate increase in life 

But you use time to reflect for a considerate decrease in life 

The decisions made both wrong and good 

A cocktail of experience you are proud to have lived 

For these little things we need to be grateful 

When saying thank you is not enough 

When showing gratitude cannot equate to sacrifices done for you

When time spent for you cannot repay in money spent for people 

But to do the needful is to say thank you to all 

So I am grateful 🙏🏾❤️

©️Hamza Hajj Ayub 

A FOOL @NINE..!

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The sun was high and his rage was fire 

A husband of steel with an uncompromising will

His words were rough 

And so were his emotions very tough 

To show care meant he was weak 

Dressed in his pride 

He makes his wife a common bride 

It’s hard to see what cannot be felt

Regardless the gifts of sight

Freeborn in the efforts of Adam

It’s evident some lanes are claimed by those who are less prevalent

A sheep in wolf skin he was

Wearing the garment of a patient man

But whenever the night drew near

His personality switches to ‘Del Diablo’

A victim of love she was

Emotion distorted womanistic intuition

Vows never to make her wow 

But relish any chance to make her aww

Love led the way

Right into the open arms of her tormentor

What happened to the warm moistness of a kiss and love promised

Indeed depression has done it’s duty

Covered in denial he refuse her home

He made idols the immaterial

Victimized

Not knowing what had befallen his wife in that material

A crime to hug her in the day 

To make her smile was never his way 

Excuses and qualms was all he could say

But when the night came 

The lion in him became a kitty seeking to be pitied 

Shift in this consciousness 

Birthed his zeal to ignore the pathway to God

Casting her in the illusion of true love

A disservice to the very existence of his soul

He looks at her face, blind to all that he is shown

The idea of running the show, is always a problem to begin with 

He stood tall by his hills in the day 

But goes begging by the knees at night 

For what he may have at ease 

His stubbornness made him a fool at nine 

©️Hamza Hajj Ayub 

©️Khadijatu Iddrissu 

©️Main Prince Nazar 

A MOTHER’S GRACE..!

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Out of sweat and pain

Screams begot dreams

Out of tears and the waiting years

A child is born as a sign of hope

Out of the blue when all has no hue

Grace as child came to color a family that was gray

Out of toil and when life seems to coil

Love and care breaks all that there is to fear

A mother’s love knows no equal

A child’s innocence knows no stain

Their lovely beautiful union

Only the heavens can tell

#MothersGrace! ❤️

©️Hamza Hajj Ayub