OKWA FELIX AGBO

MERES

2011-10-19T15:27:00.000-07:00

Meres

Mesmerized I was caught at nature’s mostqueenious of all

Amidst my doubt, certitude thrives

Rare gem bequeath with transpiration

Yielding above thorns but solace providing

Amalgamation of soul tranquilizer and glow

Mature to be desired even by the desired of hearts

Plain is the truth that must be told

Also to be cherished and held firm

Maintaining spirited beauty as at when due

Most tasty amongst all the sugars

Attitude of inviting into heart be told

Altine, what would have been without your being?

But a weary heart amidst discoloration

Mimi, natures’ most Pretty Queen.

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LOOK OUT AND SEE, MANY CLAMOR FOR IT

2011-10-17T17:40:00.001-07:00

Look out and see, many clamor for it

Is it a curse or a natural nature?

The sick desire it above all

The slaved envy all who posses it

Who are you that all desire your company?

Even those who have nothing to hold on to

The rich and the poor alike

The meek and turbulent alike

All seek for one form or another

Are you a natural nature?

Or a purnishment from nature itself

Are you for us or constantly against us?

The desire to have you drives many nuts

And when you are not found, oh misery

But where do you dwell and what is your composition?

So simple it seems yet unexplainable

Your grasp never fully obtainable

Yet all clamor to achieve this unexplainable

Then I asked what then is this unattainable?

You are never totally ever found

Yet you cause uproar, tension, fear and chaos.

THE GUTTERS ARE FALLING.

2011-10-17T17:38:00.001-07:00

The blocks and sand are moving apart

The natural law is no longer holding

Everything is individualized

Like a man in no-mans land

No order, no control, no peace

War, Happiness, Enmity

In all around I see

To enfold no longer exists

The Gutters are falling

Everything, everybody is endangered

I sat at the edge of the world

Everything will soon be scattered

Everything is coming to an end

Hope, hope, shall we be delivered? Hope.

Change is all that is needed

To repair all what has already been spoilt

To gather all what has been scattered.

Written by:

OKWA FELIX AGBO

HAPPINESS REMAINS THE ESSENCE OF LIFE

2011-10-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Happiness remains the essence of life

Am I to please everybody and not myself?

Will this lead to happiness?

Should myself be pleased and others not?

This seems a selfish endeavour

The road might seem unclear

Is it time to say it’s over?

When all I experience is sadness,

When no one seem to care

The wider road seem the best

I saw the best, but opt for worse

Don’t abandon this root they say

But the road less travelled

This I have found myself

Unending the tears seem to be

Yet , worse yet to come it seems

What then might be the solution?

I am stock right in the middle

To move forward seems unbearable

The sides are all locked up

To retreat presents terrible memories

The lord seems on vacation

My misery thus increases

Happiness remains the essence of life

Hence, the search for this is inalienable

The question remains, what should be done?

WHAT THEN IS THE ESSENCE?

2011-10-17T17:35:00.000-07:00

If today is wonderful and soul inspiring

And the next thing is tears and pain

As if it was flower in season and out

Even at that, some never find peace

All through life is pain and misery

Hence I wonder, is there any intrinsic value?

Few are born with silver spoon

Many with guile spoons

And others nobody seems to know what

The end and the beginning make little

At sometimes no sense at all

What then is the essence of living?

Why then must we live poor and die miserable?

WHY DO WE PRAY? IS IT NECESSARY?

2011-10-17T17:27:00.001-07:00

People are often bothered with the question as to whether there is need of prayer. Why do we worship a being? Is this necessary? All through the ages, people have found this a bothering phenomenon especially to the individual mind which sets some persons in perpetual bondage. In this state, people tend to pray most times of the day, worship all evening, owning little time for themselves, living unhappy lives free of pleasure. As such, pain becomes the order of the day.

By implication, inherent in the above is the fact that a life of prayer and worship, fasting and mortification is indeed a life free of pleasure, a life free from happiness and joy. One might then ask or wonder what is then the essence of living? If life should only constitute pain, suffering and unhappiness. This is indeed a life of servitude. For a free person is a person who is happy, a person who is responsible for his/her actions, a person who acts not as emotion drives but as the intellect provides.

So many persons hold dear that God is to be worshiped, prayed to for everything. That people are at the mercy of this god. Empirically however, we cannot prove the existence of this being who is, i.e. if it indeed exists, a being so distinct and far removed from what there is. Critically visible is the fact that all those who advocate for the total submission to this being, of money, time and consciousness, have directly or indirectly, mediate or immediate benefits which they always aspire and hope to get. This then leads them to manipulate persons who are weak emotionally, people who are directed by affects and individuals whose minds are passive. They hence capitalize on emotional exultation of this being and because of this servitude or bondage so many people find themselves, they are easily swayed to act, not out of will but as emotion prescribes, these which has already been acted upon.

The question however still remains, why do we pray? Do we necessarily need to do that? What happens when we don’t? Obviously, when we turn to prayer and worship, we submit our wills and inherent responsibility to a “being” or “substance” outside of us. By so doing, we become vulnerable because we belief we cannot act or do things better except we pray. Free individuals who wish to continue to keep the masses in bondage will argue that there is need to keep a relationship with the creator. But if this be the case, then this is actually unfair and unjust on the part of the creator. For how can we continue to give account to a being/substance far removed, who has created us, and set us in yet another location with indeed varied circumstances. This is just like saying a Toyota company produced a vehicle, the vehicle is now being used in Nigeria by an individual and yet, the producer desires or still wants to have a direct relationship with the vehicle. Is this possible? This is highly unlikely, it is hence not the case, for if the car is faulty, a mechanic should be approached and not the producer. Hence, if people have problems, they should contact nature and not trying to go back to God fro there is no and will not be any relationship whatsoever to this effect.

It is often reiterated that “God has no need of our praise but our desire to praise him is indeed our gift”. All these are but psychological imprints on our psychic and hence play on our intelligence. The first part seems to be a truism and a statement indeed not contestable. But the second part, I wonder what the relationship between this affects ‘desire’ and a gift. For how can a desire to praise another be a gift? Our praise of him adds nothing to his greatness. So, why then do we praise him? Why then do we pray since nothing is added to him? Obviously though, a lot is taken from us. It implies therein that it is only but a waste of time, resources, and talents trying to produce something that is not and cannot be.

Subsequently, if we submit to the use of reason as above the emotions: we then are on our way to happiness. For our very essence is to always seek the good of existence, to persist to exist and to be happy. And happiness can and is only found if and only one acts out of one’s nature and not a submission to a substance, for this is indeed a life of worthless sacrifice and unpleasure, a life of servitude which is characterized by pain. The problem is, many persons are already engulfed in such and life and find it scary to abandon it, they are hence afraid of the unknown. In essence, from the above exposition, it suffices and is evident that in its essence, there is no need of prayer or worship. And as such, religious inclinations only but sends us into slavery, pain and unhappiness. Thus, religion and its entirety should be excommunicated, be exiled from existence. For only after such can we humans begin to life a free life, a happy life.

WRITTEN BY: OKWA FELIX AGBO.

"MAY THEY BE ONE"

2011-03-08T12:17:00.001-08:00

They call us individuals

We are indeed such

But can a stick of broom sweep a home?

Can a man be ‘alone’ and ‘survive’?

Can a tree make a forest?

For this very fact we have come

Bound together in Love, United in Christ

Together we stand, divided we collapse

We have put our strengths together

We encourage each other on our journey

For this was the prayer of Christ

“May they be one”

This we have and are endeavouring to live

For the Love to be keepers of each other

We can then see and be convinced thus.

Just as the rainbow colours are varied yet united

So we are, though diverse yet united

Christ has been our strength

“I shall be with you, till the end of time”.

BY: OKWA FELIX AGBO