3 Poems

By JULIUS Joy Oluwaseun

BALANCED RATIO

How do we appeal the gods of the belly

Who constantly demands a sacrifice of toil?

Something robust with fiber

Or perhaps balanced with water.

And i can hear plates clinging together,

No so farther,

As it's content is about to journey yonder,

Still to wonder 

The insatiable claws of hunger.

Vitamins as soldiers ready for war,

Carbohydrates for agility not to fall

Proteins in excess might cause a mess

But we still relish it's goodness!

A daily ration now like an arithmetic ratio

As we belch a sign of peace:

Dedication in the white seat with a growl

After all,

What we shall eat is a balanced ratio of "affordables".

                                                                                  

COMPLEX SIMPLICITY

Lost in the complexity of life,

And the simplicity of destiny:

We all keep wanting more.

The head doesn't have a cap for shield

The cap doesn't even find any head to fit.

We'll just live as everyday people

We can't say we are strong nor are we feeble

We just find the X of the Y of one another

Complete the square of a brother

And we make the world a habitable place.

                                                                                  

HEART RACE

Stroking, beating against the tide

Chocked up struggling for breath.

A medal to achieve while swallowing aqua

Subconscious but this is beautiful.

Arms ache, muscles sprain

Feet flap, I gasp

Looks like it's over!

But not so fast not yet

Gatherers momentum

Still at the watch of the pendulum.

Crowds in agape 

No sign of you in aqua!

Revealing your goggles at the finish line,

Admist all hurdles and danger-

You certainly made my heart throb

Fighting for the breath you could get

You only made me grow akin.

You won today not just one race, 

Both forever

The medal and me...

                                                 

JULIUS Joy Oluwaseun is a Nigerian poet  and a student of Linguistics (German) in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). She is a passionate humanitarian and a lover of God.